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1 2008B Project Teams

[edit] 2008B Project Teams

Team Pages: Dynamic Packages | Post Event Report | Profile Enhancements

[edit] Post Event Report Schema Creation (Hospitality WG)

The Post Event Report serves to communicate an event’s actual history compiled upon completion of an event. The completed report is used by downstream users such as facilities, the meeting professional and for data warehousing. The Post Event Report form communicates event criteria actually used while conducting an event ranging from meeting room setup needs, audiovisual needs, catering needs, safety and security needs among other meeting and event requirements.

It is our intent to develop a schema to define this new business requirement. Portions of the development will re-use some existing message set elements. The mapping will include the xpath to the appropriate element or attribute within a revised OTA message. If there is not an appropriate field within the message, then the mapping will be extended outside of these messages.

Due to the scope of this message, it is our intent to study and map all necessary elements and make appropriate recommendations for schema enhancements based on past OTA/APEX messages leading to the development of appropriate schema elements that are required by the APEX Post Event Report. It is anticipated that work will begin early in 2008A work cycle with a target of publishing in time for the 2008B release.

[edit] Dynamic Packaging (Travel Integration WG)

The purpose of this project team is to create XML messages that consist of a hotel, car, and/or air component in a single transaction between the supplier and a trading partner. Currently the only way to satisfy such a request is to send each message individually. This is not advantageous as component (air, hotel, car) prices are interdependent and sending separate messages makes it more difficult to determine how each package component relates to others.

A typical use would allow, for example, a supplier of air travel to provide any combination of air, hotel and car information in a single message (with pricing for each component) and send this message to a trading partner who in turn provides a package price to end consumers. Each component price is opaque to the end user and no single price is valid without the others. In effect, the supplier provides the trading partner with a set of wholesale prices. The trading partner is then free to (or contractually obligated to) mark up the cost and display a single package price to the end user.

There is a need for these messages as several members have developed internal solutions in the absence of an OpenTravel solution.

[edit] Profiles Update (Travel Integration WG)

Profile management is becoming increasingly important within most travel industry sectors, both to help provide better service to customers and clients, and also as a central tool to collect and harmonize data for marketing and performance analysis.

This project will enhance the current OTA Profile messages and extend the messages to handle advanced search. New schemas will be developed to handle merge operations.

The scope of this project is to enhance guest and account/corporate profiles. In addition to enhancing the data model (OTA_ProfileCreateRQ) the following operations will either be enhanced or added:
Profile Search – OTA_ReadRQ
Profile Merge – a new OTA_ProfileMergeRQ
Profile Multi Delete – OTA_DeleteRQ/RS