Open Travel Alliance
The OpenTravel Alliance is a non-profit organization which develops open data transmission specifications for the electronic exchange of business information for the travel industry, including but not limited to the use of XML.
OpenTravel provides the defacto (free, open source) standard for the travel and leisure industry. Our specification is used by suppliers, resellers, global distributors and integrators worldwide to meet customer and trading partner demands by easily XML-enabling web services and applications. Our frequent refinement of these standards allows our implementers to address their current and emerging business requirements while keeping pace with how XML is used in the global travel marketplace. Additionally, OpenTravel provides a community where companies in the electronic distribution supply chain work together to create an accepted structure for electronic messages, enabling suppliers and distributors to speak the same interoperability language, trading partner to trading partner. Due to the wide adoption of the specification, tens of thousands of OpenTravel message structures are in use, carrying tens of millions of messages between trading partners every day.
Members of the OpenTravel Alliance include airlines, hotel companies, car rental companies, cruise lines, railways, global distribution systems, distribution companies, solutions providers, software developers and consultants. For a current list of members, go to OpenTravel's web site.
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