{"id":43822,"date":"2020-03-04T19:43:47","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T23:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opentravel.org\/?p=43822"},"modified":"2025-08-12T05:35:55","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T12:35:55","slug":"opentravel-messaging-business-functionality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opentravel.org\/opentravel-messaging-business-functionality\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenTravel Messaging Business Functionality"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The OpenTravel specification contains the building blocks for business functionality. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

With interoperability at its core, the specification’s object model design spans numerous travel segments. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

OpenTravel Messaging is designed to reuse elements across travel segments so that there is an easy to understand architecture that facilitates partnerships and ease of integration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to established suppliers, including airline, car rental, and hotel, OpenTravel schema products support emerging segments such as day tours & activities, golf, and ground transportation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Built by the Travel Industry, For the Travel Industry<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Since 2001, OpenTravel has built, promoted and evolved the data messaging standard for the travel industry. The combined efforts of all of our stakeholders over the years have resulted in a unifying specification that has been implemented by hundreds of travel companies – representing thousands of brands and properties – worldwide to create commercial solutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Features Enabled by OpenTravel Messaging<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Millions of messages are exchanged every day using OpenTravel schema…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  • Application Connectivity<\/li>\n
  • Booking Documents & Queues Check-ins<\/li>\n
  • Customer and Partner Accounts<\/li>\n
  • Customer Profiles<\/li>\n
  • Descriptive Information<\/li>\n
  • Dining & Meal Plans<\/li>\n
  • Error & Warning<\/li> \n
  • Handling Fares & Booking Rules<\/li>\n
  • File Attachments<\/li>\n
  • Groups & RFPs<\/li>\n
  • Holds & Unholds<\/li>\n
  • Inventory<\/li>\n
  • Inventory Exchanges<\/li>\n
  • Itineraries<\/li>\n
  • Locations<\/li>\n<\/ul> \n<\/td>\n
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  • Loyalty Programs<\/li>\n
  • Non-Inventory Items<\/li>\n
  • Notifications<\/li>\n
  • Packages<\/li>\n
  • Dynamic Packaging<\/li>\n
  • Payment & Identification Verification<\/li>\n
  • Pricing, Quotes & Commissions<\/li>\n
  • Rates & Rate Rules<\/li>\n
  • Reservations (Bookings)<\/li>\n
  • Search & Availability<\/li>\n
  • Search & Display (No Availability)<\/li>\n
  • Seat Availability & Information<\/li>\n
  • Shore Excursions<\/li>\n
  • Special Services<\/li>\n
  • Terminal Messaging<\/li>\n
  • Ticket Fulfillment<\/li> \n<\/ul> \n<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure><\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The OpenTravel specification contains the building blocks for business functionality. With interoperability at its core, the specification’s object model design spans numerous travel segments. OpenTravel Messaging is designed to reuse …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":45248,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-specification"],"acf":[],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/opentravel.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/open-travel-object-model-577x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/opentravel.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/open-travel-object-model.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Jeff ErnstFriedman","author_link":"https:\/\/opentravel.org\/author\/jeffe\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentravel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentravel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentravel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentravel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentravel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/opentravel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentravel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentravel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentravel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentravel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}