Products - Online Hotel Display Rules - New Item

This page is used to define a new online hotel display rule for a hotel supplied by an online supplier.

You can also access this page to edit an existing hotel display rule and to edit hotel display details imported directly from an online supplier.

 To manually define a new online hotel display rule

  1. In the Hotel Name field, enter the name of the hotel as it appears exactly in the online supplier record. This is a mandatory field.

  2. In the Destination field, select the destination of the hotel from the drop-down list.

  3. In the Online Supplier field, select the online supplier of the hotel from the drop-down list. This is a mandatory field.

    Only suppliers defined as online suppliers are displayed in this drop-down list.

  4. Select the relevant display definitions for the hotel:

  5. If required, select Local location definition to display all the hotel details as provided by the online supplier except for the location. The location is selected in this field.

    After selecting this option, the Location drop-down list is be displayed.

    This is the location according to which the hotel is displayed in the Reservations System.

  6. To add existing hotel details from your local database:

    1. Select Local static content definitions.

    2. In the Hotel extended details source field, select one of the following options:

    3. Click here for more information.

      • Local: The hotel details are taken from Setup - Product Definitions - Hotels

      • External: The hotel details are taken from the online supplier.

      • Upon online supplier definitions: Depending on what is selected in Setup - Website Definitions - Content - Online Suppliers for that specific online supplier, the hotel details can be taken either from the online supplier or Setup - Product Definitions - Hotels.

  7. Click Select hotel.

    The Select Hotel page is displayed.

    A hotel must first be defined in Setup - Product Definitions - Hotels in order to appear in this dialog box.

    Note that all hotels defined in Products - Contracts are also displayed automatically in Setup - Product Definitions - Hotels.

  8. Mandatory. In the Name field, enter the hotel name, or the beginning part of the hotel name.

  9. Click Find.

    The hotel is displayed.

  10. Click Select.

    Existing hotel details from your local database are imported into the Online Hotel Display Rule page and into the following three expanders:

  11. Edit the details as required.

  • If you want the system to always display hotels from internal contracts when content interfaces return hotels that already exist in internal contracts, select Prefer always internal content. If you select this option hotels from content interfaces are only displayed for hotels that do not exist internally, or for hotels that do not have any allocations defined in the contract.

  • Click Save.

    If required, click to delete the local static content definition and have the hotel displayed only according to the online supplier record.