Overview

This setting determines the strategy for picking accommodations from live suppliers in a specific area that will be checked for availability. It is particularly relevant in situations where the total offerings of all bed banks is over 1000 accommodations, since TripBuilder requests via TravelgateX are limited to this number.

Selecting the Property Sorting Strategy

• Go to Settings
• Click on Distribution Channels
• Click on your TripBuilder ID
• Click on the Planner tab
• Scroll down into the Product-Specific Configuration section
• Click on the Property Sorting setting

Choose between the following configuration options: 

• Geographical proximity to search centre: Sorts the top 1000 accommodations based on proximity to the centre of the chosen area.

• Hotel stars, decreasing: Sorts the top 1000 accommodations starting from 5-star hotels moving downwards.

• Technical sort order (deprecated): This older algorithm selects the top 1000 accommodations within the area without any specific selection strategy.

Example

Let's say you're a tour operator wanting the search results to prioritise 4 and 5-star hotels in cities like Paris or New York where the number of accommodations exceeds 1000. By choosing hotel stars decreasing as your sorting option, you ensure that the top 1000 hotels returned in your search will include these higher-rated establishments.