Trade association for the travel industry,
creating solutions for electronic distribution.

“Continental has a successful direct connect program because we use OpenTravel schemas. Using them allows us to work with non-traditional trading partners, and it allows us to keep our costs down and still provide great customer service.”

  • Ron Anderson-Lehman
  • Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer
  • Continental Airlines

About OpenTravel

The OpenTravel Alliance provides a community where companies in the electronic distribution supply chain work together to create an accepted structure for electronic messages, enabling suppliers and distributors to speak the same interoperability language, trading partner to trading partner.

2012 North American Advisory Forum Announced!  Join us in Miami in April 2012

Looking for Help with Your OpenTravel Implementation? We've build a discussion Forum for implementers of the specification to help make your OpenTravel implementation a success.

Current Projects

Architecture Work Group

  • OpenTravel 2.0 XML Objects
  • Rail Common Services Model Definition

Transport Work Group

  • Air Merchandising Schema
  • Air Operations Schema
  • Air Virtual Seat Maps
  • Enhanced Rail Schema
  • Ground Transport Schema
  • Semantic Search Support in OpenTravel Car Rental Schema

Travel Integration Work Group

  • Enhanced Golf Schema
  • Tours & Activities Schema
More...

Who's a Member?

Looking for a supplier, distributor, or technology partner who supports OpenTravel?

Who's Using OpenTravel?

Want to know who has implemented OpenTravel messages?

Why Join?

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Seen Our Wiki?

OpenTravel has built a wiki to support our work groups and project teams.

What's Going on Today?

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