The Merchandising API allows travel buyers to retrieve hotel metadata and content updates from the Hotel Trader platform using GraphQL.

The API supports:

• Full data loads (for first time)
• Incremental updates (for recurrent updates)
• Pagination using resumeKey
• Filtering by update types

Base URL

Sandbox Environment

<https://sandbox-api-mtd.hoteltrader.com/distribution/graphql>

Please contact your Technical Account Manager respresentative at Hotel Trader for Production URL

Authentication

The API uses HTTP Basic Authentication. These credentials are same as the credentials you are using for Search, Quote and Booking

Travel Buyers must provide:

• Username
• Password

These credentials must be Base64 encoded and sent in the Authorization header.

Example Authentication Header

Authorization: Basic base64(username:password)

Example:

Authorization: Basic abcja0BkaWRhdHJjklVsLmNvbTpEaWRhQGyzMg==