xEtra and Underlying Data

The Exchange of Electronic Travel Resources and Assets (xEtra) program of the Travel & Tourism Foundation has, as primary focus, the creation of relational databases to facilitate communication between the disparate systems in the global travel industry.

With the move from host mainframes and into relational databases, data can be shared among multiple information systems. The migration away from the legacy, cryptic environments permits the free flow of data to integrate with online booking tools, corporate payment systems and human resources databases, which often carry redundant data or profiles.

The next-generation of travel data management systems are built on open, web-enabled, configurable architectures with friendly graphical user interfaces. Travellers information can be transferred between various transaction records, keeping reservations consistent, reducing reservation processing and enabling quick builds of group bookings.

xEtra will support free exchange of information within the travel industry and will add value through facilitating an increased flow of trade and revenue on a global basis. xEtra data will be public and available for all business entities within the travel and tourism industries.

xEtra is our most ambitious program. Strong support and massive input for the full definition, implementation and adoption of such a project is needed not only from travel entities but also from travel related entities that will highly benefit from the results of this project.

Please contact our Founder/Chairman for any input, suggestion or support you might have.