Travelport Universal API™
The GDS industry’s first truly universal API, giving you access to direct connections to high speed rail providers, low cost carriers worldwide and multi-GDS content via a single API.
With Travelport Universal API, third party developers, online travel agencies (OTAs), travel agencies, and consolidators globally are able to improve efficiency, streamline the travel supply chain, reduce software development costs, and improve time to market when building travel related applications for deployment on the web, desktop solutions or mobile applications. Universal API can help almost anyone wishing to develop save valuable time and money.
One single API to access and maintain
- Universal Record - a true “Super PNR” that stores and links data in a consistent format regardless of the source, giving you the ability to modify and cancel booking data directly, removing the need to manage multiple PNRs across the various content sources and ultimately decreasing costs and improving efficiency and time to market.
- Universal Profile - a single profile and policy database that allows greater levels of granularity in storing data and more flexibility in terms of system integration. Universal Profile works across multiple systems, resulting in development efficiency and overall system effectiveness.
Global Reach, Local Focus
- Travelport Universal API aggregates travel content from multiple sources.
- Shopping and booking capabilities are aggregated into a single and seamless user experience.
- Applications built upon the Universal API platform have access to the cross-section of content required to stay competitive from both a global and local perspective.
Innovation to keep you Competitive
- Comprehensive travel content enables a more complete offering to customers – allowing you to maximize customer satisfaction as well as revenue opportunities.
- Code to only one API and access many new travel suppliers and content types, reducing costs and improving time to market.
- Universal API is Travelport’s flagship API offering providing a future-proof and sustainable solution.
- With Universal API, the complexity is removed as Travelport maintains the business logic, saving development time and cost.
Building Valuable Partnerships
- Travelport makes it easy to work with Universal API by offering full service support capability.
- Our extensive Software Development Kit (SDK) provides a comprehensive, easy to use guide that includes practical examples to optimize development.
Targeted Messages for Developers
- Fully compliant SOAP 1.1 API
- Support for GZIP compression
- Support .Net™, Java™, Perl™, etc.
- Supports Open Travel Alliance (OTA) element name with enhanced structure
- Encapsulated business logic replacing native terminal entries
- Developers have the choice of receiving asynchronous or synchronous responses
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