Committed to investing in cost-effective, revenue-generating technology.

1. Hotelbeds Group
technology key facts
Our technology story
• The Group’s proprietary technology helps providers of travel services distribute their offering to travel
sellers globally via an easy-to-use, advanced technology platform that increases reach, revenue and yield
for both the provider and the seller.
• We are committed to investing in our cost-effective, revenue-generating technology - it is an important
differentiating factor and the key to our success.
• The technology platform handles up to 430 million data requests per day from users worldwide, that’s
around 6,000 data requests a second at peak.
Our technology products
• Advanced API makes XML connectivity access simple and quick .
• APItude is the Hotelbeds API suite, the fasted and lightest hotel distribution API in the market. XML
connectivity makes access simple, light and quick - plus there are white label and widget solutions on
offer.
• Maxiroom is our hotel partner portal which allows partners of Hotelbeds to maximize distribution.
Our technology partners
• Currently we are working with Amazon Web Services to transition to an open-source, cloud-based IT
infrastructure - so far 60% of Hotelbeds Group data has been integrated into the cloud.
• We are also migrating all our current data centres to a more effective and scalable cloud-based solution
with BT, already we have completed our first phase.
• Recently we have implemented Workday, a cloud-based HR system.
• The company has been working with Salesforce for many years.
Our technology team and approach
• The group has around 350 employees working in its technology team globally.
• Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Álvaro de Nicolás joined Hotelbeds Group in 2014 from British Telecom,
where he was the CTO for BT Sports.
• Recently created roles include Head of IT innovation and Head of new data and analytics.
• Currently we are conducting ‘agile’ trials, pioneering an alternative approach to solving technology
challenges.

2. Some other interesting key facts
• More than 5,000 XML connections.
• We handle around 46,000 daily net bookings of hotel rooms, activities and transfers.
• In September 2015 Hotelbeds Group signed an agreement with the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB)
to create a Professorship for tourism innovation.
• In May 2016 we organised a Hotelbeds Group hackathon with Tnooz and the University of the Balearic
Islands and have recently participated in events such as the Expedia hackathon, where Hotelbeds won the
first prize.
• 5,5K requests/sec (peaks of 10)
• 430M requests/day
• Answer in < 1 sec/req
• >99% garantee of availability & price
CLOUD STRATEGY
• Testers of AWS new services
• 5Tb of Business data stored daily
• 1.3 Peta Bytes of data stored
• + 30% yearly growth in data volumes
>99% platform availability
1st implementation in Spain
hotelbeds group technology ecosystem
suppliers
Activities
>12,000
Hotels
>120,000
Transfers
>20,000
tour operators
4,000
Online
Travel agencies
1,000
Travel agencies
30,000
Web browser connection API connection
clients served
Car
Rental
>140,000