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we're operating in the hotel business and like to develop some kind of Channel Manager or Channel Distribution Software for our customers.

The goal of the software is to have a central place managing your rooms / offers and push them to international platforms via XML / XML-RPC interfaces for example to booking.com, holidaycheck.com etc.

I already found some companies out there which are offering this kind of service (SaaS) but still i'm curious why there isn't any open source solution for this.

I am NOT looking for a hotel management software but a channel distribution management!

Does anybody know anything about an open source solution to this issue?

Thank you in advance

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There isn't any reason why there can't be an oper source platform. The problem will always be that you need to have the agreement of at least 2 hotels to use the system in order to get it up and running with any of the top ota's. The specifications for connecting to them are available and although each ota has their own variant, the differences are easy to manage.

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what does "ota" mean? – gnat Apr 12 at 10:01
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@gnat - just a guess based on context - 'online travel agent'? – Dan Pichelman Apr 12 at 14:13

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