Go Scotland Tours now presents itself as a booking marketplace for Scottish touring rather than a single operator, matching travellers with vetted local guides and suppliers. Departures run from Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Inverness, and cruise ports, covering distillery visits, castles, and Highlands and Islands itineraries, with bespoke private trips built on request.
This connection enables you to sell your products on Go Scotland Tours 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 Go Scotland Tours products with Ventrata.
Receive bookings, updates, and cancellations from Go Scotland Tours to Ventrata.
🔐 Required Role Permissions: See Connections, Modify Connections
Creating Connection
Prerequisites:
Before connecting to the Go Scotland Tours API, ensure you have:
A commercial agreement with Go Scotland Tours for them to sell your products.
Go Scotland Tours 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 'Go Scotland Tours' from the list of partners.
Press the + New Connection button.
Select Go Scotland Tours
Select 'Go Scotland Tours' 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 Go Scotland Tours Reseller
(Optional) You can also set the connection 'Name' of your choosing, which may be helpful if you plan to have multiple Go Scotland Tours 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 Go Scotland Tours 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 Go Scotland Tours 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 Go Scotland Tours 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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Go Scotland Tours 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.
Partner Information
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7 Harbour Place,
Edinburgh, EH15 1TQ,
Scotland,
United Kingdom
Ventrata Partner ID: 22171cd3-0236-48f2-ae9a-9f7cecf18dd2