SWISStours is the leisure arm and wholly owned subsidiary of Swiss International Air Lines, founded in 1997 and selling Swiss Travel Passes, Eurail passes, hotels, sightseeing excursions, and packaged Switzerland itineraries. The connection pushes live availability, pricing, and capacity to SWISStours and returns bookings, changes, and cancellations directly into Ventrata.
📒 NOTE
This connection is available only to specific client accounts.
This connection type is currently available to select clients only. Please contact our Technical Support or your Customer Success Manager to check eligibility.
This connection enables you to sell your products on SWISStours by automatically syncing your availability, pricing, and bookings in real time. The capabilities of this connection allow you to:
Sync availability and pricing for your SWISStours products with Ventrata.
Receive bookings, updates, and cancellations from SWISStours to Ventrata.
🔐 Required Role Permissions: See Connections, Modify Connections
Creating Connection
Prerequisites:
Before connecting to the SWISStours API, ensure you have:
A commercial agreement with SWISStours for them to sell your products.
SWISStours created as a Reseller in Ventrata with retail and wholesale/commission pricing correctly configured.
In the Ventrata Dashboard, go to Connections > Connections.
Press the + New Connection button.
Select 'SWISStours' from the list of partners.
Press the + New Connection button.
Select SWISStours
Select 'SWISStours' from the list of your resellers (must be created before creating a connection).
The connection will inherit the reseller's configuration, like pricing, allowed destinations, products, etc.
Select SWISStours Reseller
(Optional) You can also set the connection 'Name' of your choosing, which may be helpful if you plan to have multiple SWISStours connections and would like to differentiate between them more easily in the future.
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If needed, you can also allow/disallow products or destinations on the connection level in addition to what you have configured on the reseller, which can be helpful if you have multiple SWISStours connections linked to one reseller.
Press the Create Octo Connection button.
Create Octo Connection
Mapping Products
Email the OCTO API key shown on the connection you've created to your SWISStours contact and ask them to map your products using Ventrata's OCTO API. Typically, it takes no longer than a few business days for the SWISStours team to complete this.
Your Ventrata configuration is complete. You do not need to take any further steps.
OCTO API key
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SWISStours can access all products enabled on the connection, but you can also provide the Product and Option IDs from the connection page when contacting them to specify what to map.
Troubleshooting
My Ventrata products use Booking Size fares, and pricing isn't working correctly on SWISSTOURS.
My Ventrata products use Booking Size fares, and pricing isn't working correctly on SWISSTOURS.
After every fare change, update the product mapping to ensure the partner tier counts are synced with Ventrata. Ensure the fare is enabled for sale over Direct API.
Partner Information
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Malzgasse 15
CH-4052 Basel
Switzerland
Ventrata Partner ID: 4ceeb81e-ed29-4b8d-b962-c7aaea6ea682