Search (using API calls) by the options available for the hotels?

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Permalink Reply by Alex Bainbridge on September 17, 2011 at 6:57pm

Hi Evgeny

What do you mean by option? You mean TourCMS option?

There is an interesting thought! Can you give me a real world example rather than a technical explanation.

Thanks. Alex

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Permalink Reply by Hiking Croatia on September 18, 2011 at 10:03am

Hi Alex,

We offer holiday accommodation “deals”. The deal is for instance a week at a hotel room + bonus (like a spa treatment, free wine, guide books etc.)  The bonus can also be a special price/price reduction. In terms of TourCMS this is a “tour/hotel” + an “option”.

At the home page our clients see the “deals”. By clicking the choose hotel link within the deal description they are supposed to get a list of accommodations that can be booked with this deal (i.e. have a particular TourCMS option available).  It does not work like that now on our website – but we would like to organize it this way.

I think this is a very simple approach, isn’t it?

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Permalink Reply by Actief in Tsjechie on October 8, 2011 at 7:10pm

Hi Evgeny,

 

One way of realising this would be to make a collection for these offers and link to that collection. One tour/hotel can be in several collections (as much as you want).

 

Regards, Luit 

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Permalink Reply by Hiking Croatia on October 8, 2011 at 7:35pm

Thanks Luit,

How do you mean - link to that collection? As far as I understand, all search possibilities are defined here - http://www.tourcms.com/support/api/mp/tour_search.php (in the Querystring parameters table). There is no functionality for searching by tour collections, as far as I can see. ... or am I wrong?

 

Regards,

Evgeny

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Permalink Reply by Hiking Croatia on October 7, 2011 at 9:55pm

Hi Alex,

What shall we do to keep a discussion going? Do you need more information?

Sorry if I am too pushy -

Regards,

Evgeny

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Permalink Reply by Alex Bainbridge on October 9, 2011 at 3:13pm

Keep pushing!

Sorry, was at a travel industry conference Thursday / Friday.

Our key issue is that collections / product filters tend to be single supplier (i.e. your own account). That is fine when the product is on your own website. 

However, with the TourCMS Marketplace, you can send the product to 3rd party companies (e.g. partners you may have some control over, or big travel websites that you may not)

Thinking about exposing the category types - in the API - but only on the internal API credentials (sorry, complex idea). I have a feeling this would help. Its on my list to do (like soon) (October)

Keep this conversation going!

Thanks. Alex

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Permalink Reply by Hiking Croatia on October 9, 2011 at 3:35pm

Hi Alex,

I am not sure I  understand everything in your last reply :) I hope there will be a plain language explanation when you have a solution, please.

 

Thanks.

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