This article will tell you about travel APIs and why tourism companies rely on them. We will navigate their importance, which firms provide them, and how to use them. Now let’s begin!
Travel APIs
Travel APIs refer to application programming interfaces that focus on providing other software with travel information. By this, I mean data that is valuable for passengers and travelers. They are the target of the tourism agencies. Hence, these businesses must use a tool that will give them ease and accessibility to the information they are looking for. For example, the schedule of a certain airline.
Of course, when I talk about Travel APIs this involves a huge world of data. Yes, flight data, airline data, country data, and more. Hence, there are different types. Some of them focus on flight data: status, schedules, codes, and more. While others focus on attractions, car rental booking, reviews and ratings, and more. As you can see, the field is vast which makes it even richer.
Therefore, the use of these APIs will give agencies an advantage in the market. They will always be updated and have reliable information regarding the search they are executing. Now I’m going to tell you which companies provide you with these powerful and how:
Flightlabs
Flightlabs is a flight data API that allows you to search for flights from all over the world. Yes from any kind of continent. It gives you different types of data such as the current flight status (canceled, active, delayed, incident). It also allows you to search for flights on a certain date or filter by different parameters such as airports, airlines, IATA code, ICAO code, and flight number.
Because it works with a wide range of programming languages, including PHP, Python, Node.js, jQuery, Go, and Ruby. It’s simple to integrate FlightLabs into almost any program or platform. This flight data API requests return JSON, XML, or any geocode-specific GeoJSON files for optimum utility in any use case.
The HitchHiker API
This API distributes flight tickets and ancillaries from six GDSs and 20 NDC airlines, as well as connecting directly to 120 airlines, including low-cost carriers. It provides for booking, reservation management, and payment, in addition to ancillaries and pricing. The API is also available as a cloud-based service.
OAG’s Flight Info API
This powerful Flight API gives customers immediate, near real-time access to the full range of OAG’s schedules and status data, allowing them to confidently view or publish current schedules. Within one API, you may query both schedules and status information. Search and booking systems, airports, hospitality, and border security and management are all good examples.
We have reached the end of this article and we have covered all about travel APIs. Like I said if you have a tourism agency I urge you to apply them and see how they will beneficiate your company. Here I added three potential APIs that are affordable and easy to use. So there are no excuses. Go ahead and give them a try. Good luck and see how those clients affiliate even more!