Guides
Written for the people doing the work: operators listing inventory, trade buyers integrating it, and developers connecting the two. No vendor pitches, no growth hacks.
Connecting your tours to other people's websites sounds like a technical problem. It is mostly a modelling problem. Get the model right and the integrations are easy, get it wrong and every new partner costs you a month.
Before OCTO, every reseller integration was a private negotiation about field names. OCTO is the industry agreeing on the field names once so everyone can get on with selling.
Three words get used interchangeably in this industry and they mean very different things to your bank balance. Here is the arithmetic, worked both ways, and how we price an operator's products.
Hotels solved this problem twenty years ago. Tours and activities are messier, because a hotel room is a hotel room and a private charter is not a seat. Here is what actually transfers and what does not.
Wholesale travel does not run on credit cards. It runs on prefunded balances, credit lines and reconciliation, and if you build a B2B flow that looks like a consumer checkout your partners will not use it.
Free cancellation converts. Free cancellation also means a sunk guide fee when four people change their minds on a Friday. The answer is not to pick a side, it is to build a ladder.
The availability model you pick decides how your product is displayed, how it is sold, and how often you get thirty people arriving for a room that holds twelve. It is worth ten minutes of thought.
