How to get information about tours from a tour operator?

ilBEastli2012-04-23 13:02:41

data mining

ilBEastli, 2012-04-23 13:02:41

It took a selection of tours on the site of a travel agency. Searching the sites of tour operators did not find any publicly available information about the tours they provide.
I would not want to disassemble each tour operator and portray a visitor.

The only mention of uploading information “outside” was found only by Mouzenidis Travel (in TourML format). And that's on request.

Is it impossible to get such information in simple ways, or am I just looking in the wrong place?
Offers of tour aggregators / ready-made "modules" are not taken into account.

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8 answer(s)

pomeo, 2012-04-23
@ilBEastli

xml.teztour.com
I don't know others

Bakotiinii, 2012-04-23
@Bakotiinii

According to the agency agreement, the tour operator provides all relevant information to the travel agent. Therefore, if you need information about tours, you need to conclude a contract with a tour operator and be accredited as a travel agent. In any other case, I do not see the need for the tour operator to post on its website the entire list of documents in this direction.
According to the legislation of the Russian Federation, the tour operator or travel agent gives the client a tour package, an agreement and an accompanying sheet (sheet with information)

ZloiZmei, 2012-04-23
@ZloiZmei

> Offers of tour aggregators / ready-made "modules" are not taken into account.
What do they not like, if not a secret?
Believe me, this is more profitable than writing parsing + searching from scratch for dozens of tour operators and negotiating with them.
Now all small travel agencies work through such aggregators. Or they put a search from several tour operators (one main one).
Not everyone has some kind of standardization - look for the same “TourML”, “tours in xml”, etc ...

Andrey, 2012-04-23
@shinyweb

sletat.ru/ModulesDescriptions/#contentST5

VeMax, 2012-04-23
@VeMax

For most tour operators, you still have to look for workarounds. If the tour operator does not advertise its API, but there is a search form, then most likely there will be requests with a response in JSON format, which can then be used for personal purposes. For some, the answer comes in HTML format, but even there it is not difficult to parse it.

freem4n, 2012-04-23
@freem4n

It seems you need something like www.samo.ru/touragent/touragent-info.html

ThePretender, 2012-04-26
@ThePretender

At my previous job, I did just that. Some of the operators already listed in the comments provide normal XML gateways. Others post links to open source archives on special pages. These archives must be unpacked and the XML or XLS contained in them must be parsed. There were also a couple of very difficult cases: parsing of HTML pages loaded via AJAX. Nothing, it worked :)

Welko, 2018-11-14
@Welko

The tour booking site takes data from the tourvisor system