New Distribution Capability (NDC)
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An IATA-led XML standard that lets airlines sell richer content (branded fares, ancillaries, continuous pricing, personalised offers) direct to TMCs and OBTs rather than only through the legacy GDS pipe.
An IATA-led XML standard that lets airlines sell richer content (branded fares, ancillaries, continuous pricing, personalised offers) direct to TMCs and OBTs rather than only through the legacy GDS pipe.
Explore related terms: Application Programming Interface , Average Daily Rate (Hotel ADR) , Best Available Rate
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A defined connection between two travel systems (OBT to expense tool, HR system to OBT, TMC to risk-management platform) that lets them pass data back and forth automatically.
The average price paid per occupied room per night — a core hotel benchmarking metric for both hoteliers and corporate buyers.
The lowest publicly available, unrestricted rate a hotel is selling on a given night — the benchmark a corporate negotiated rate is measured against.
A single unit that bundles all greenhouse gases (CO₂, methane, nitrous oxide and others) into the warming impact they'd have as an equivalent amount of CO₂ — the standard unit for reporting travel emissions.
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