Connection to Hotel Reservation Systems 

Use

As an alternative to including hotels in travel planning by means of a global reservation system (GDS), you can also use hotel reservation systems for this purpose. The Travel Planning component in SAP NetWeaver Exchange Infrastructure (XI) now provides a generic interface for hotel reservation systems.

Travel Planning shows available hotels either from a global reservation system or from a hotel reservation system, the latter of which is connected through XI. (However, the available hotels from both sources are not shown at the same time.)

Prerequisites

To be able to connect Travel Planning to a hotel reservation system, you need to have set up a scenario for hotel reservation systems in the XI Integration Server.

You make the following settings in Customizing for Travel Planning:

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       1.      You define the hotel reservation system based on the hotel reservation system connected in the XI Integration Server.

To do this, you go to Customizing for Travel Planning and choose Master Data ® Technical Control Parameters for Travel Planning ® External Reservation Systems ® Define Reservation Systems.

       2.      You assign the hotel reservation system connected in XI to the groupings for access to external reservation systems.

To do this, in Customizing for Travel Planning you choose Master Data ® Technical Control Parameters for Travel Planning ® Access to External Reservation Systems ® Access Parameters for External Reservation Systems ® Access Parameters for Other Reservation Systems ® Define Use of XI Interfaces for Categories.

See also:

For more information, see the Implementation Guide (IMG) for the IMG activities listed above.

For information about XI, see the SAP Library at SAP NetWeaver ® SAP NetWeaver Library ® SAP NetWeaver by Key Capability ® Process Integration by Key Capability ® SAP NetWeaver Exchange Infrastructure.

For information on the supported hotel reservation systems and how to implement them in XI, see SAP Service Marketplace at http://service.sap.com/tm-downloads.