Best known for the globally adopted industry-standard travel specifications, OpenTravel is also home to a robust tool kit that helps all parties of the travel ecosystem leverage and enhances the existing travel messaging.
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This Open-Source toolkit – known as OTM-DE – is available for download on the OpenTravel GitHub Repo. Designed to interact directly with OpenTravel specifications, it provides dev teams with a GUI to leverage, enhance and deliver OpenTravel messages.
Before we get into what is new, let’s talk about what the tooling can do. If you are already familiar, you can skip to the list of enhancements.
Check out all the latest on our repo and we look forward to hearing about your implementations and feature requests!
FROM: GLORIA GUEVARA, President & CEO of the WTCC
No one can doubt that we are in uncharted territory. The coronavirus pandemic means the world is facing a threat on multiple fronts not seen in peacetime. The Travel & Tourism sector is uniquely exposed, and we estimate 50 million jobs globally are at risk. To put it bluntly, Travel & Tourism is in a fight for survival.
Travel is the backbone of economies around the world. It brings in essential currency and inward investment, creates jobs and stimulates every sector. WTTC figures show Travel & Tourism contributes to 10.4% of Global GDP and 320 million jobs. It is responsible of creating one in five new jobs and, for eight successive years, has outpaced the growth of the global economy.
View the full letter from WTTC here (pdf).
The OpenTravel Alliance member LinksRez announced it has received NDC Certification Level 3. IATA New Distribution Capability – or NDC – is growing adoption amongst airlines and has similar functionality to OpenTravel Messaging. By achieving this certification, LinksRez will advance the OpenTravel mission of interoperability across the entirety of the travel vertical.
“LinksRez and OpenTravel are at the forefront of interoperability and is excited to be in a position to bridge the decreasing gap between OpenTravel Messaging and NDC,” said Brian Bell, President of LinksRez and member of the OpenTravel Governing Board. “For over twenty years OpenTravel has been promoting the adoption of data messaging standards in the travel industry and is excited to strengthen alignment between IATA and OpenTravel.”
The dev team at LinksRez is a regular contributor to OpenTravel workgroups evolving data messaging standards specializing in hospitality, golf, ground transportation, and air. LinksRez is a member of the OpenTravel Alliance and IATA.
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 elements across travel segments so that there is an easy to understand architecture that facilitates partnerships and ease of integration.
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.
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.
Millions of messages are exchanged every day using OpenTravel schema…
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