Glossary

Amadeus Discover

The name of this project.

API

Application Programming Interface. This is a technical way to make two systems (e.g. web services) communicate together.

Content Partner

Business entity that provides one or multiple products. A Content Partner can be a BMS, a content aggregator of different suppliers or directly a supplier owning multiple products.

BMS

Booking Management System. They are aggregators of suppliers and their products. The booking of a product is done by their platforms.

OCTo

Open Connectivity for Tourism, which is an industry initiative to develop and foster the use of standard API (and others) specifications to help solve long standing issues in the in-destination activities industry. Official OCTo website

Product

Activity provided by a supplier.

Swagger

Suite of API developer tools, including specification for defining REST APIs. A Swagger document is the REST API equivalent of a WSDL document for a SOAP-based web service. The Swagger document specifies the list of resources available in the REST API and the operations that can be called on these resources.

Token

In the context of Amadeus Discover, a token is a unique and temporary security element (i.e. random sequence of characters) proving the fact that one user or service is authenticated.