Hotel content matching and agregation

Alliance for Intelligence Travel: hotel and room mapping, matching

Hyper geo search API auto complete demo

Try: dubai (city), 4441 collins avenue (address), jimeirah (neighborhood), 75016 (postal code), LAS (iata) ...

AIT multi search works with words parts like "fontain miam" will find "fontainebleau hotel" or "4441 coll av" for it s address

AIT multi search tries to right spot what you are looking for, easing your search as much as possible.

star ratings, suppliers, number of items per category, json or xml, and more. (see API doc for details)

Defaults in this demo, 3 items returned per category, all suppliers, all star ratings, all categories, all details.

Click on the auto complete search bar above (example extracted from our in house bookings platform)

Problem n° 1

Suppliers hotels Id's list

There is no standard in the travel industry.

Each supplier offers static data (hotel name, ID, address, etc) with their own specifications.

When it comes to knowing who is who, it is time-consuming and costly to find out.

More you add suppliers, each with thousands of different references, more it is challenging.

Because of the lack of suitable tools, many tour operators ends doing the job by hand.

API requirements set-up

AIT ID's matcher is easy to use.

	Set sources to match (no virtual limits).
	Set your priorities regarding the suppliers you prefer, or leave it to us.
	Set the output files: XLS, CSV, XML, Json.
	Send your files via upload or directly across the API.
	Receive your response via a downloadable file, API or email.

Solution n° 1

Suppliers Id's deduplication mapper

Having an updated suppliers ID's table is essential.

OTA's, Wholesalers, suppliers, chain listings ,independent listings or your IT's list. any are possible sources.

AIT Id's matcher works with any. No matter how many you want to match.

AIT Id's matcher adapts easily to any form of sources, down to your very own.

Deduplicated and mapped Id's table

Seq.	OTA 1	Prov 1	Prov 2	Prov 3	IT's	Tour 1
1	121245			US8951	104
2	168748	85741	1025
3	147952		2204		127	A2574
4		14758	1444			B123
5	107851		785	CN3452	385	C5443

Problem n° 2

Hotel content discrepencies

Having the most relevant content is key.

Standardizing Hotels data is equally important and complex as Id's mapping.

Each provider have it's own way of delivering hotels specifications and data as each one uses a particular way of querying their database.

It is common to see listings with discrepancies, errors, anomalies or lack of data.

Hierarchical supplier matched content

AIT hotel content matcher has a broad range of actions.

One's you know who is who, you need to know who s doing what and how.

You want to have the freedom of using a database that includes all available content for each hotel, from all suppliers.

Pre selecting the hotels of your choice for your promotions.

Create a true efficient marketing push strategy.

Relevant supplier matched content

Best of all suppliers to boost content quality

	Have a unified database according to your specs.
	keep your habits and suppliers preferences.
	Empower suppliers API searches efficiency.
	Get rid of data discrepancies from some suppliers.
	Aggregate the most relevant content from suppliers.

Recursive dis/re-intermediation management

AIT fits any business model. Use it to your advantage.

With hotel matchingand room mapping, you can easily manage financial feasibility according to intermediary actors number, compared to the available GP margin.

Solution n° 2

Hotel most relevant content matcher

Common data for common sense.

An example: some suppliers will alter hotel cities name to include a larger area, supposedly to ease searches across their databases.

Hotels in all surrounding areas (30 miles radius !) will have the city set to Miami.

When a customer queries their databases, the returned result will consider all those cited cities as "Miami".

If you are looking for hotels in Miami beach only, you have to crawl across the entire result.

In a general manner, suppliers alter their listing according to their database capacities. Doing so, they create anomalies.

All in all this makes hotels searches imprecise across multiple suppliers, as all will have different criterias for cities.

With AIT hotel matcher, dynamically promote with precision targeted and preferred offers to your customers.

Hotel content normalisation

When you are used to working with some suppliers, you like how they bring you good offers and quality data.

On the other hand, you might be missing important data and offers if you focus too much on some of them.

AIT hotel content matcher works hand in hand with you. Simply rank your suppliers and AIT hotel data matcher will prioritize your choices.

For instance: You prefer provider 1 (policies etc) over provider 2. AIT hotel data matcher will keep it this way and only grab provider 2 data if it s missing in provider 1.etc.

Hotel	check it	Correct it	clean it	Norm it
Name	Keep as is	Prov. priority	irrelevant info	google most
Address	Keep as is	on error	reverse geo-coding	Postal per country
City	freeze	Prov. priority	no	none
Zip code	yes	on error	yes	Postal per country
US states	yes	on error	yes	ISO 3166-2
country code	yes	Forced	yes	ISO ALPHA-2
country name	yes	on error	yes	ISO international
Phone / fax	Keep as is	Prov. priority	international	NANP, DIN or E.123
E-mail	Keep as is	on error	yes	none
GPS Lat & Long	Keep as is	average on all	no	ISO 9.6

AIT hotel content matcher applies normalization rulings for all kind of data, based on the latest international standards.

Hotel content standardization

More homogeneity for an optimal search and more readability for an optimal productivity.

Location: Location is set as the closest relevant POI. matched for all suppliers, avoiding multiple redundancies, greatly facilitates later location searches.

Cities: A second city field is added with the administrative city name (independant of the provider's one) and set in 2 languages (English and original language)

IATA: AIT hotel data matcher validates destination codes (IATA) used by suppliers and set it as the preferred one (as per your suppliers ranking) but a second IATA code field is created, corresponding to the closest IATA location. It can be a train station, an airport, a cruise terminal. IATA fields names are added.

Phone numbers: By default AIT hotel data matcher will set them in the international one, following each country owns nomenclature.

Seq.	Name	Address	City Prov	City Admin	State	Postal code	Country code	Country name	Location	Preferred IATA	Preferred IATA name	Closest IATA	Closest IATA name	Phone
1	Howard Johnson Plaza Miami Beach North	8701 Collins Avenue	North Beach	Surfside	FL	33154	US	United States	On the beach	MIA	Miami Intl.	MPB	Seaplane Base	+1 (305) 825-1000
2	Hotel Midland Sheremetyevo	Khimki, Quarter Klyaz'ma	Moscow	Moscow - Химки		141400	RU	Russian Federation	Connected to the airport	SVO	Sheremetyevo Intl.	SVO	Sheremetyevo Intl.	+7 495 660-30-99
3	Cristal Palace	Rua Francisco Otaviano 56	Rio De Janeiro	Rio De Janeiro	RJ	22080-040	BR	Brazil	Copacabana	RIO	Rio De Janeiro Intl.	SDU	Santos Dumont	+55 21 2513-2048
4	Le Meurice Dorchester Collection	228 Rue De Rivoli	Paris	Paris 01		75001	FR	France	Louvre Museum	CDG	Charles de Gaulle Intl.	XPG	Gare du Nord	+33 1 44 58 10 10
5	Ramada Plaza Pudong	18 Xin Jin Qiao Road	Shanghai	Shanghai - 上海		201206	CN	China	Pudong District	SHA	Hongqiao Intl.	PVG	Guójì Jīchǎng	+86 (21) 5055 4666