TBO: B2B Travel Distribution and API Profile

TBO is a B2B travel-distribution platform exposing global inventory to agents and enterprise partners. Its official APIs support real-time availability and pricing for accommodation distribution.

Ecosystem role

TBO sits between wholesale/bedbank supply and B2B marketplace distribution because it aggregates supplier inventory for agency and enterprise buyers.

API model

Official sources describe static and dynamic rate models, live sourcing connections and real-time availability. Search state should not be assumed to equal final bookable state; verification remains a separate concern.

Technical modeling

Preserve property/source identity, cancellation policy, payment or credit model, booking reference and supplier state separately.

Operations and observability

Production integrations should measure more than successful API responses. Track search/ARI freshness, mapping gaps, upstream latency, rejected mutations, booking confirmation, cancellation state and reconciliation drift separately. When a timeout leaves business state unknown, use lookup/reconciliation instead of blind retries. Preserve source identifiers and timestamps for incident analysis; a temporary partner-access failure should not silently mutate canonical entity or booking state.

Boundaries

This profile describes capabilities supported by public official sources. Account-specific commercial terms, private endpoints, quotas and certification requirements should not be generalized without verification from the active partner contract.