Our new EPS Rapid 2.4 API, is focused on enhancing the traveler experience through new features, additional information in the API, and streamlining processes for you and your travelers.

We’re enhancing the traveler experience by enabling you to surface the Top 10 points of interest at a destination, as well as being able to filter properties that are within walking range to a particular landmark – so  travelers can make the best decisions when booking their trip. We’re also streamlining the booking process by reducing the number of mandatory fields to only those that are necessary.

We’ll be adding even more content and information such as further detail on offers and promotions, the reason behind a discounted rate, additional checkin and checkout details for a property, and the category of a Value-Add Promotion.  This means you will have better control over how you chose to surface this information to travelers in the most effective way. Not only that, but you will also be able to provide a more granular breakdown of a property’s traveler rating by requesting any of the 12 rating sub-categories for a property, including cleanliness and quality.

Finally, to streamline our processes, Alternative Property Recommendations will be accessible via the availability endpoint, and we will now ask simply for a flight airline parameter rather than designator code when you request Cross-sell Recommendations.