OpenTravel Alliance
The OpenTravel Alliance is a volunteer, non-profit travel technology standards body headquartered in Melbourne, Florida, United States. Since 1999 it has published the OpenTravel Specification — the OTA 1.0 XML message suite (releases 2001A through 2024A) and the model-driven OpenTravel 2.0 Object Model (OTM), which generates XML Schema, JSON Schema and Swagger 2.0 resource contracts — plus the OpenTravel Code Lists used across air, hospitality, car rental, cruise, rail, GDS, channel and technology-provider systems. OpenTravel does not operate a booking service or sit in the distribution chain itself; it supplies the message vocabulary that suppliers, GDSs, channel managers and OTAs implement between each other, which makes it a switching-cost reducer rather than a switching-cost holder. Its API posture is honest but thin: there is no OpenTravel-operated runtime API and no public certification registry, though it does run a free self-serve developer portal — the OpenTravel Developers Network at opentraveldevelopersnetwork.com — and, as of 2026, an OAuth 2.1 protected Model Context Protocol server on opentravel.org. Specifications are royalty-free and free of charge, but the canonical download is behind a name/company/email lead-capture form with terms acceptance, and the OTM repository and member review periods are membership-gated ($950–$11,250/yr by revenue band). A public, unlicensed GitHub mirror at github.com/OpenTravel/OpenTravel-Specifications carries the bulk of the corpus — including eight Swagger 2.0 resource contracts — and is the only ungated route to machine-readable artifacts. The organization has announced work with the Linux Foundation to form an Open Travel Foundation.
OpenTravel Alliance publishes 6 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Facilities API, Hospitality Find Hospitality Availability API, Hospitality Offers API, and 3 more. Tagged areas include Travel, United States, Standards, Aviation, and Hospitality.
The OpenTravel Alliance catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification.
OpenTravel Alliance’s developer surface includes getting-started guide, support, authentication, changelog, CLI, code examples, API reference, and 55 more developer resources.
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APIs 6
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
OpenTravel Alliance Facilities API
The Facilities API from OpenTravel Alliance — 2 operation(s) for facilities.
OpenTravel Alliance Hospitality Find Hospitality Availability API
The HospitalityFindHospitalityAvailability API from OpenTravel Alliance — 1 operation(s) for hospitalityfindhospitalityavailability.
OpenTravel Alliance Hospitality Offers API
The HospitalityOffers API from OpenTravel Alliance — 1 operation(s) for hospitalityoffers.
OpenTravel Alliance Hospitality Property Offers API
The HospitalityPropertyOffers API from OpenTravel Alliance — 1 operation(s) for hospitalitypropertyoffers.
OpenTravel Alliance Hospitality Retrieve Facility Availability API
The HospitalityRetrieveFacilityAvailability API from OpenTravel Alliance — 1 operation(s) for hospitalityretrievefacilityavailability.
OpenTravel Alliance Hotel Descriptive Contents API
The HotelDescriptiveContents API from OpenTravel Alliance — 3 operation(s) for hoteldescriptivecontents.
Open Collections 8
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
FacilityResource
OPEN COLLECTIONFacilityResource
OPEN COLLECTIONHospitalityOffersResource
OPEN COLLECTIONHospitalityOffersResource
OPEN COLLECTIONFacilityResource
OPEN COLLECTIONFacilityResource
OPEN COLLECTIONHotelDescriptiveContentResource
OPEN COLLECTIONHotelDescriptiveContentResource
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MCP Servers 1
Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.
Event Specifications 1
AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.
JSON Schema 10
Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.
CodeList
JSON SCHEMAHospitalityFacility
JSON SCHEMAHospitalityOffers
JSON SCHEMACodeList
JSON SCHEMACodeList
JSON SCHEMACommon
JSON SCHEMAFacilityResource
JSON SCHEMAHospitalityContent
JSON SCHEMAOrganization
JSON SCHEMAOrganizationHospitality
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Examples 7
Example request and response payloads for these APIs.
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Security Posture 2
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Scopes 1
OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.
Agentic Access 1
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Resources
Get Started 5
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Documentation 6
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Agent Surfaces 9
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Design & Contract 7
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
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Build 5
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Access & Security 3
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 7
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
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Commercial 4
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 4
The organization behind the API
Other 12
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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