RateHawk XML/API integration

Functionalities and benefits

Founded in 2016 (part of Emerging Travel Group, est 2020) and created for travel market professionals, RateHawk has become one of the fastest-growing platforms for B2B industry players. An innovative and reliable partner for tens of thousands of travel agents, tour operators, and corporate clients.

RateHawk offers over 1.8 million accommodation options, FIT & group reservations, car rental, transfers, and other travel-related services for both leisure and business travel in 220 countries.

Having an API/XML connection with RateHawk on your website would empower you with automation that will let you handle 10x more reservations daily.

RateHawk Group offers travel providers access to best offers on the B2B hotel market from 155+ wholesalers, consolidators, OTAs and DMCs.

If you decide to connect with RateHawk to XML/API connection, you will have access to:

• more than 75.000 destinations worldwide
• real-time dynamic fares from more than 155 international suppliers
• over 1,800,000 properties (Hotels, Resorts, Apartments and Hostels)
• integrated TripAdvisor to provide you with guest ratings and reviews
• commission-free payments by Credit Card, Bank Transfer (CitiBank) or Line of Credit
• integrated Google Maps to search for a property directly from the map
• booking is done in seconds

Types of services Travitude takes from RateHawk, through XML/API connection

Hotels

Number of units: over 2,000,000 hotels from over 75.000 destinations
Specialization: worldwide with a focus on Europe, South-East Asia, the USA, Australia
Description language: English, Spanish, Italian, German
Supported currencies: GBP, EUR, USD
Web-site: https://www.ratehawk.com/

Travitude Hotels module features:

• Search for a hotel by city, dates of stay, number of rooms and tourists
• Filter hotels results by hotel name, stars, distance from city center, price range, trip advisor rating, type of meal, location (districts)
• Add hotels to favorites and download .pdf or send offer by email
• View hotel descriptions
• View room types and prices for each one
• View information on penalty charges
• Book hotels
• Send bookings automatically to RateHawk

Step-by-step guide for RateHawk integrated API/XML offers on your website

If you are thinking to connect your website with travel suppliers like RateHawk, you must take into consideration some important details:

1. Capable website

You need to have a capable website platform, so platforms like Wordpress would be very difficult or impossible to use.

• With this purpose, we've created Travitude website platform - a dedicated website which incorporates a booking engine module with already integrated travel suppliers.

2. Use dedicated platforms

You need to know that it is very expensive to integrate XML/API suppliers by yourself; so, we recommend using dedicated platforms, such as Travitude.

3. API credentials

After you created the necessary "foundation" (travel supplier/s integrated into the website), you need to set up a commercial agreement with them, so they can give you your own API credentials, needed for Travitude or other lookalike website platforms.

• API credentials are unique and the travel supplier/s use them to identify the travel agency that sends the online reservations.
• Travitude has established strong relationships with all the important travel suppliers, so we will closely guide you through this process.

4. Payment methods

In order for the reservations to go to travel supplier/s, you also need to have set up the online credit card payment option.

• Travitude has already integrated local and worldwide payment processors and it will be an easy process.

5. Now you’re set-up, up-to-date and ready to sell online!

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