# TUI Group

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/tui-group/  
**Website:** https://www.tuigroup.com/en  
**APIs profiled:** 21

TUI Group is the world's largest integrated leisure tourism business — a vertically integrated tour operator that owns the hotels, the cruise ships, the airlines and the retail brands it sells through, serving 34.7 million customers a year across tour operators in 18 countries. The United Kingdom is its largest single source market: TUI UK & Ireland and the UK-registered carrier TUI Airways sit at the centre of the group, alongside Marella Cruises, TUI Musement and the TUI Blue, Robinson and TUI Magic Life hotel brands. The group is domiciled in Hannover, Germany and listed on the Frankfurt MDAX, having ended its London primary listing in 2023. TUI sits at the supply end of the travel distribution chain rather than the intermediation end — it is the principal that creates package holidays, not a GDS or a channel manager — and it distributes chiefly through its own retail estate and websites, supplemented by B2B feeds to travel agents, OTAs and metasearch partners. On the API front TUI runs a real, publicly readable developer portal at developer.tui fronted by Apigee X, with 21 documented API products covering flight shopping and booking, departure control, packages, accommodation content, cruise and metasearch distribution. The documentation is genuinely open — base URLs, endpoints, auth flows, quota tiers, downloadable Postman collections and a public OpenAPI 3.0 document for every one of the 21 products (1,261 operations in total, served from the portal's Swagger UI) are all published without a login — but the runtime is not: every API product requires a partner-manager approval, most airline APIs additionally require a Navitaire New Skies agent profile and a production IP whitelist, and the TUI fly OTA API states plainly that step one is to conclude a contract. There is no self-serve key, no published developer terms of use (the portal's terms page is still unfilled lorem-ipsum placeholder text), no idempotency contract on any booking or payment operation, no status page, no event or webhook surface, and no documented bulk-export or data-portability operation for a departing partner.

## Kin Score — 53.0 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-17 under rubric 0.11.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 53.0).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 92.6 |
| Contract Quality | 53.0 |
| Governance | 20.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 63.2 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 64.7 |
| Commercial Clarity | 34.2 |

## Agent readiness — 51.1 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| MCP Server | derived |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | verified |
| OpenAPI Examples | partial |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | derived |
| Well Known Catalog | yes |
| Consent Identity | yes |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## APIs (21)

- **TUI New Skies Digital API** — JSON API onto the Navitaire New Skies passenger service system, used to create and maintain flight bookings and perform operational tasks such as retrieving flight manifests. Th...
- **TUI New Skies GoNow API** — Access to Navitaire's full Departure Control System through the TUI Apigee gateway. Documented capability groups are check-in (including reverse check-in and EES validation resu...
- **TUI New Skies Payment API** — PCI-DSS scoped payment proxy in front of Navitaire New Skies, exposing three channels: REST Digital API payments under /rest/api/nsk/{version}/booking/payments (create, retrieve...
- **TUI Flight Availability Search API (NSKCC)** — Real-time flight availability and pricing search, documented as the first step in the booking process. A single GET /search operation takes IATA station codes or ISO country cod...
- **TUI New Skies PriceFile API** — Bulk fare-file distribution. Four GET operations — /download/{filename}, /download/{filename}/timestamp, /download/delta and /download/delta/timestamp — return base64-encoded ZI...
- **TUI CheckInHandler Service API** — REST service in the New Skies flight family described on the portal as the complete API specification for CheckInHandler Service endpoints. The published page documents the play...
- **TUI Flight OTA API** — Distribution API for TUI fly Benelux content — the routes and destinations sold on tuifly.be, tui.nl, tuifly.ma and tuifly.fr — offered to third parties who want to resell TUI f...
- **TUI OTA Content API** — Accommodation content companion to the TravelMessage G7 booking interface, described on the portal as OTA content V2.0 and delivered as JSON rather than the G7 XML. Returns the ...
- **TUI WallDy Holiday Offers Search API (search-walldy)** — Proxy service exposing the WallDy holiday search over Apigee X. A single POST /offers operation takes accommodation IDs and a travel window with optional party composition, boar...
- **TUI HolidayOffersController API (search-holiday-offers)** — REST service in TUI's search family, listed in the portal's Search category. The public page documents the playground and production base URLs and the x-correlation-id and versi...
- **TUI Meta Search Generics API** — Metasearch partner interface onto TUI's accommodation portfolio for the Central region (Germany). Two documented operations — GET /hotel_inventory returns the hotels portfolio a...
- **TUI Partner Content API** — Accommodation content for partners in the Nordic region (Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway), exposed as REST endpoints secured with OAuth 2.0 client credentials.
- **TUI Ship Content API v1.0** — GraphQL endpoint for ship reference content — cabin types, boards and deck plans — queried for specific information related to a ship. The only GraphQL surface in TUI's publishe...
- **TUI Group TravelMessage.v31** — TUI Group TravelMessage.v31 from TUI Group — 10 path(s) described in OpenAPI.
- **TUI Group TUI Cruise Booking APIs** — TUI Group TUI Cruise Booking APIs from TUI Group — 2 path(s) described in OpenAPI.
- **TUI Group Cruise Cabin Availability** — TUI Group Cruise Cabin Availability from TUI Group — 1 path(s) described in OpenAPI.
- **TUI Group TUI Cruise Price and Availability.** — TUI Group TUI Cruise Price and Availability. from TUI Group — 6 path(s) described in OpenAPI.
- **TUI Group Flight-ndc-gateway-navitaire** — TUI Group Flight-ndc-gateway-navitaire from TUI Group — 26 path(s) described in OpenAPI.
- **TUI Group Meta Partner Package Live Search** — TUI Group Meta Partner Package Live Search from TUI Group — 3 path(s) described in OpenAPI.
- **TUI Group Meta Partner Packages & Flights** — TUI Group Meta Partner Packages & Flights from TUI Group — 5 path(s) described in OpenAPI.
- **TUI Group Supply** — TUI Group Supply from TUI Group — 1 path(s) described in OpenAPI.

## MCP servers (1)

- **tui-group-mcp.yml**

## Agentic access (1)

- **Tui Group Agentic Access** — 1261 operations · 653 acting · 18 human-in-the-loop

## Security (3)

- **Tui Group Authentication** — apiKey/http/oauth2 · 4 schemes
- **Tui Group Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Tui Group Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published

## Tags

Travel, United Kingdom, Aviation, Airline, Tour Operator, Distribution, NDC, Hospitality, Hotels, Cruise, Booking, Packages, Metasearch

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