The Travelgate Summer Workbook 🏖️

This is the Travelgate Summer Workbook. A few pages for our network to flip through before getting back to work. So you come back not just rested, but ready.

Six stops. Each one is a real opportunity sitting inside the network you are already connected to.

Grab a parasol. Let's go.

Week 1: Check your scoreboard and what shipped while you were away

Two things worth doing before anything else: look at your own numbers, and check what is new on the platform.

Your dashboard Most Partners check their integration once it is live and do not look again until something breaks. Log into your Dashboard and actually read your connectivity stats and transaction logs. Check Status Services for any notifications you might have missed. And if you have not touched your Data-Driven Optimizations recently, now is the time. Smart traffic solutions that lift connectivity performance with a single click.

What shipped this summer The roadmap does not pause for holidays. New Seller APIs, new Buyer connections, new capabilities across the platform. Open the Integrations Roadmap and filter for recent releases. New integrations mean new potential Partners for you. Suppliers you could not reach before. Buyers you had not considered. Every update is a potential commercial conversation waiting to happen. Is there a new Seller or Buyer live on the network you should be talking to? That is the first email you send on your first day back.

65,000 bookings a day. 15 billion+ searches a day. Worth keeping an eye on your slice of it.

Week 2: FastX, the full picture

If you integrated a while back, there is a decent chance you are not yet on Travelgate's latest connectivity layer. And even if you are, FastX is not one thing. It is two.

Are you on FastX? Read up on FastX. Next-generation standardization built to simplify and accelerate connectivity across the network. Fewer moving parts. Faster time to market. If you are still running an older integration, bring this to your tech team in September. And re-read Push to Pull with fresh eyes. The model that made sense at integration time is not always the most efficient one for where your business is today.

FastX Content vs FastX Aggregation FastX Content identifies the same hotel across multiple suppliers automatically. Consistent inventory. No duplicates. If you have ever had the same property showing up three times under three different supplier names, this is the fix.

FastX Aggregation lets you compare rates and availability from multiple suppliers simultaneously, in one view. If your team is still switching between supplier extranets to compare a rate, this is the fix.

Which one solves the problem your ops team complained about last month? That is a good question for your account manager in September.

Week 3: Meet AO, the layer most Partners have not met yet

FastX and HotelX handle the bookable flow. Search, quote, book, codes, aggregation. That part is covered.

But none of that fixes whether the content describing a hotel is actually trustworthy.

That is a separate problem. It is called AO, Travelgate's content orchestration and governance layer.

A property can be connected, mapped, and fully bookable while the descriptive content disagrees across suppliers. Different room names for the same room. Uneven images. Translations that conflict. Supplier updates that create errors nobody notices until a guest complains.

What AO does:

• Builds a unified property and room baseline
• Handles room taxonomy, de-duplication, and mapping
• Normalizes attributes, media, and translations across languages
• Runs conflict detection, change management, and content quality SLAs

One line to remember: HotelX and FastX handle the bookable flow. AO handles the content flow. Two different layers of the same pipe.

If you have ever had a guest complaint about a room not matching its description, or spent time manually reconciling content between suppliers, this is worth raising with your Travelgate contact.

Week 4: The Store you might not have opened yet

Connectivity is the foundation. Travelgate Store is what you build on top of it.

A plug-and-play ecosystem of third-party apps, built directly into the network. Discover and activate tools that improve how you buy, sell, optimize, and manage hotel inventory. No rebuilding your integration. No custom project. No heavy mapping.

Value comes from activating an app, not from starting from scratch.

For Buyers: apps that improve commercial performance, optimize pricing and margins, reduce manual work, and help you move faster when launching new products. Mize SmartRate, for example, identifies pricing opportunities after the initial booking and improves margins quietly in the background.

For Sellers: apps that increase exposure and conversion, sharpen rate competitiveness, and free your team to focus on revenue instead of technical firefighting.

Is your team using payment, pricing, or optimization tools that sit outside the platform? Check the Store first. The solution might already be there.

Week 5: Your Knowledge Base is there for a reason

The Knowledge Base is one of the most useful things in the network, and one of the least visited once a Partner is up and running.

No judgment. It happens everywhere. But summer is the perfect moment to spend twenty quiet minutes browsing through it. New articles get added regularly. Sections that did not exist when you integrated are live now. And more than once, the answer to a question a team has been working around for months was sitting right there.

A few pages worth having open whenever you need them:

• Knowledge Base: the full reference library. Browse it like a magazine, not a manual.
• Glossary: settle a terminology question with your team in under a minute.
• Ask Alna: Travelgate's AI assistant, built into the docs. Type your question in plain language and get a direct answer. Faster than a support ticket for most things.
• Discord Community: other connected Partners, trading notes in real time. Worth lurking even if you do not post.
• Travelgate Blog: Travel Tech news, product updates, and industry thinking.

Week 6: Where to put your brand in Travel Tech this autumn

Summer ends. The industry reconvenes. The question is not whether to show up. It is whether you have planned ahead or you are scrambling for a meeting slot in September.

Travelgate is present at the most relevant international Travel Tech events. Here is what is coming up before the end of the year:

IFTM, Paris, France, 15–17 September 2026

TravelDaily Conference, Shanghai, China, 22–23 September 2026

FIT America Latina, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 26–29 September 2026

TTG Travel Experience, Rimini, Italy, 14–16 October 2026

ITB Asia, Singapore, 21–23 October 2026

WTM London, London, UK, 3–5 November 2026

Phocuswright Conference, Ft. Lauderdale, USA, 17–19 November 2026

A word on ConX. This is Travelgate's own event. Over 500 companies in 2026. 2,000+ high-intent B2B meetings. 1,000+ C-level executives, founders, and senior decision-makers from 50 countries. Not a trade show floor. A room full of the people you already work with on the network, meeting in person in Mallorca. If you have never been, put it in the calendar now.

Pick two events that match your target markets. Book a meeting with the Travelgate team at the ones you are attending. A face-to-face conversation moves faster than three months of emails.

Full calendar: travelgate.com/trade-shows

Your back-to-business checklist

• ✅ I have looked at my dashboard stats this month
• ✅ I know whether I am on FastX, and if not, it is on the September agenda
• ✅ I know the difference between FastX Content and FastX Aggregation
• ✅ I understand what AO does and whether it applies to my setup
• ✅ I have checked the Travelgate Store for tools I was building or buying separately
• ✅I have spotted at least one new connection on the Integrations Roadmap worth exploring
• ✅ I have spent time in the Knowledge Base and bookmarked Ask Alna
• ✅ I have picked two events from the autumn calendar and put them in my diary

Tick three and you are already walking back into September better prepared than most of the network.

And you still had time for the beach. 🌞