Architecture Workgroup Projects

• OpenTravel 2.0 Prototype Project Team Page
• Project Team Proposal in development

OpenTravel has been conducting a study on a new initiative called “OpenTravel 2.0” led by the OpenTravel Architecture Workgroup. This project will create a prototype of the proposed new OpenTravel 2.0 type library and business objects. Please note this is a prototype and not an actual schema development project. The outcome of this study will be evaluated by OpenTravel leadership for its impact on current and future implementations.

• OpenTravel PCI/PII Schema Remediation Study Project Team Page
• View the project team proposal

The Payment Card Industry (PCI) has mandated that owners of systems that process, store or exchange payment card information tighten security and handling of this type of information to prevent the theft and/or misuse of customer payment card information and other personally identifying information. OpenTravel schema messages and supporting files may contain both types of information and the purpose of this study is to determine the extent of usage of PCI data and PII within the OpenTravel Specification and make recommendations regarding protection, remediation, and best practices for collecting, storing and exchanging the information. It is anticipated that the result of this study will initiate an OpenTravel schema modification project.

Transport Workgroup Projects

• Vehicle Rental No Show Fees Project Team Page
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This project is enhancing the existing OpenTravel vehicle messages to disclose a no show fee to customers and support the collection of the fee. This involves adding content to the existing messages to indicate on which vehicles a fee applies and the rules and conditions that govern the fee. In addition, the additional processing to validate that required fields are provided during the booking path is supported.

• EMD’s for Air Schema Project Team Page
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This project adds electronic miscellaneous document (EMD) business functionality to OpenTravel air messages—allowing OpenTravel implementers to exchange fee-related information (that is separate from a fare) for items and services passengers can purchase to enhance their travel experience. These items and services include inflight amenities such as meals and entertainment and the sale of merchandise. Additionally, other EMD fees, such as fees for baggage charges may be exchanged.

• Enhanced Rail Schema Project Team Page
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This project is defining a set of OpenTravel rail and generic schemas that are closely aligned with common rail industry business functionality and cover the scope of web services required to implement a modern rail reservation system for the following message categories: Schedules, Search & Availability, Pricing & Fares, Reservation & Booking, and Payment & Authorization.

Hospitality Workgroup Projects

• Change Discovery Service for Push/Pull Model Caches Project Team Page
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The “Change Discovery Service” project will create a new OpenTravel message sets for the OpenTravel hotel vertical that allows both push and pull-model caching system to stay current with rates & availability, as well as substantially decrease transaction loads on both the supplier and requestor systems. The proposed Change Discovery Service message pair facilitates a message-based process to streamline availability and rates caching by adding an intelligence layer to existing OpenTravel Availability messages and is designed to alleviate a significant challenge faced by suppliers and their trading partners—which is supporting an extremely high number of users, connected systems, complex queries—while preventing out of synch caches.

• Folio Enhancements for Hotel Messages Project Team Page
• Project team proposal in development

This project addresses Folio enhancements to existing OpenTravel Hotel messages that include: folio changes for groups, multiple payment/guarantee segments for the same person (per single reservation), having a group folio versus a shoulder folio, payment handling for “share with’s”, and itinerized folios for multiple payments.

Travel Integration Projects

Miscellaneous

• OpenTravel Code List Navigators

OpenTravel Code List Navigators are tools to use during design and implementation of your OpenTravel-enabled systems as they will help you quickly identify any OpenTravel Code Lists referenced in OpenTravel schema. Each Code List Navigator contains all the OpenTravel messages for it's associated message category, the xpath to each message element/attribute that references a code list, a description of how the code list is used and a link to the current values in the code list.