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Enhanced shopping (EST)

Returns detailed rate information

Summary and examples

The Enhanced Shopping Transaction (EST) returns detailed room and rate information for multiple properties (up to 200 in a single transaction). The information includes room and rate descriptions, pricing information, policies and restrictions etc.

The transaction also supports many other features such as negotiated rate processing, user-specified timeouts, multipart responses, multiple languages etc. All these features are described in the sections below.

Simple Example

The following is a simple request for 1 adult and 2 children staying between 1-4 September. The example just contains two properties, although up to 200 are supported.

Note: The VersionCompliance attribute must always be sent to indicate that this is the ‘enhanced shopping’ version of MultiAvailability rather than the standard version described in section 0.

<HotelML xmlns="http://www.xpegs.com/v2001Q3/HotelML">
<Head>
<Process DataPath="/HotelML/Form/MultiAvailability"  Function="TI_MultiAvailabilityV1_1" Token="1273480445698"/>
<Route Destination="00" Source="01" RequestedAccuracy="CacheOrSource"/>
</Head>
<Form>
<MultiAvailability>
<Property xml:lang="en" Code="UI;12345"/>
<Property xml:lang="en" Code="UI;61829"/>
<RateCriteria  VersionCompliance="Enhanced_V1" NumberOfRooms="1">
<GuestCount Type="Adult" Count="1"/>
<GuestCount Type="Child" Count="2"/>
<DateRange InDate="2011-09-01" OutDate="2011-09-04"/>
</RateCriteria>
</MultiAvailability>
</Form>
</HotelML>

The response message shown below includes the available rooms and rates for the two requested properties. As the amount of information returned will vary by property, the first property (UI;12345) is an example of fairly comprehensive information, while the second property (UI;61829) is less detailed.

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