Experience Bank becomes OCTO Certified, strengthening open connectivity across the Tours & Activities Industry

Experience Bank, the Channel Manager that connects attractions & experience providers with OTA’s, today announced that it has achieved Certified status with OCTO, the open API standard for connectivity within the leisure industry.

One connection, every channel: The real value of Channel Management

Connected distribution helps attractions scale, diversify their reach, and get more from the systems they already use.

But while every new sales channel brings an opportunity, it also brings challenges: real-time availability to share, pricing rules to maintain and 3^rd party tickets to validate – but as distribution grows, the workload should not have to grow at the same pace.

This is the real value of channel management tools, like ExperienceBank.

ExperienceBank is the technology that sits between booking systems and OTA’s, enabling attractions, events and experience providers to grow their reach, selling tickets through online travel agencies such as GetYourGuide, Viator, Civitatis, and many more.

OCTO : One standard for connectivity: Grow distribution, not workload

By becoming OCTO certified, ExperienceBank ensures that integrations between booking systems, attractions & event venues, and OTA’s is delivered to an industry standard, ensuring hassle-free, future-proof integrations.

Leading booking systems using ExperienceBank are already seeing the benefits. Jamie Faulker, Operations Director at DigiTickets, added:

“ExperienceBank achieving OCTO compliance reflects their commitment to an open, connected experiences industry. Standards like OCTO remove friction for everyone – providers, booking systems, and OTA’s alike – DigiTickets is proud to work with ExperienceBank and be part of that movement.”