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TourCMS XML API Developer Primer

The TourCMS Developer Primer is a quick exercise utilising some of the core areas of the TourCMS Marketplace API.

The task (Estimated time: 1hr)

Create a web page that displays a list of Tours/Hotels using the "Search Tours/Hotels" API method, including information generally seen on such pages including the Summary, Location, Short description, Price and a Thumbnail Image.

Provide a link to allow the customer to book the product using the standard off the shelf Booking URL (don't worry, the design of the hosted booking engine will not match your pages). Please don't make an actual booking, if you can get to the point where you are entering dates & how many people then that's fine :)

If you have time

Revisit the list page to add a some basic filtering controls to the page, perhaps let the customer restrict their results by Country, Keyword search or to only show Tours/Hotels featuring Special Offers.

API credentials

• Marketplace Partner ID: 126
• API Private Key: 5aed2d3d69ea

Useful links

• TourCMS Marketplace API documentation
  • Search Tours/Hotels method (for the page listing Tours/Hotels)
• Client libraries and wrappers

If you get stuck some of the API examples use the Tour Search method, The TourCMS API demonstration website TourSift is powered by the API and features the same Tours/Hotels you have access to. You may use the examples as a reference however you should write your own code.

Notes

• Remember this is about API usage, so while effort should be taken to present information in a readable approximation of a live website, beautiful designs are not the goal
• If you are coding in PHP or .Net then use of the client libraries / wrappers is advised