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Tourism Exchange USA Reseller Connection

How to connect your product listings on Tourism Exchange USA to Ventrata to sync availability, pricing, bookings & more.

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Tourism Exchange USA is a business-to-business marketplace for American accommodation, tour, and attraction suppliers, reaching distributors including Booking.com, Expedia, Airbnb, Viator, and Tripadvisor. There are no upfront fees, and commission is charged only on completed bookings, which suits smaller US operators testing wider distribution without fixed costs.

Tourism Exchange USA uses V3 Leisure as their primary booking system.

This connection enables you to sell your products on Tourism Exchange USA 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 Tourism Exchange USA products with Ventrata.

  • Receive bookings, updates, and cancellations from Tourism Exchange USA to Ventrata.


🔐 Required Role Permissions: See Connections, Modify Connections

Creating Connection

Prerequisites:

Before connecting to the Tourism Exchange USA API, ensure you have:

  • A commercial agreement with Tourism Exchange USA for them to sell your products.

  • Tourism Exchange USA created as a Reseller in Ventrata with retail and wholesale/commission pricing correctly configured.

  1. In the Ventrata Dashboard, go to Connections > Connections.

  2. Press the + New Connection button.

  3. Select 'Tourism Exchange USA' from the list of partners.

  4. Press the + New Connection button.

    Select Tourism Exchange USA

  5. Select 'Tourism Exchange USA' 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 Tourism Exchange USA Reseller

  6. (Optional) You can also set the connection 'Name' of your choosing, which may be helpful if you plan to have multiple Tourism Exchange USA connections and would like to differentiate between them more easily in the future.

    📗 TIP

    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 Tourism Exchange USA connections linked to one reseller.

  7. 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 Tourism Exchange USA 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 Tourism Exchange USA team to complete this.

Your Ventrata configuration is complete. You do not need to take any further steps.

OCTO API key

📗 TIP

Tourism Exchange USA 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

Expand to reveal partner address and website information.

6751 Professional Pkwy., Suite 200,

Sarasota,

FL 34240,

United States

Ventrata Partner ID: 30298b1d-45d1-416a-b1d6-1611f647c59b

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