Distribute your tours through Hotelbeds with TicketingHub
Some of the most valuable experience bookings never touch a consumer website: they're assembled inside travel packages by tour operators, airlines, and travel agents. Hotelbeds is one of the biggest engines behind that world. Connecting Hotelbeds through TicketingHub's channel manager plugs your tours and activities into a global B2B distribution network — while your availability stays live and every booking lands in the same dashboard as your direct sales.
What is Hotelbeds?
Hotelbeds is a travel technology company best known as one of the world's leading bedbanks — a business-to-business accommodation wholesaler, headquartered in Palma on the Balearic Islands. A bedbank doesn't sell to travelers directly; instead it aggregates supply and distributes it to travel businesses. Hotelbeds' buyers include travel agents, tour operators, airlines, and loyalty programmes, who use its platform to book hotels, transfers, car rental, and — importantly for you — tours, activities, and attraction tickets for their own customers.
Think of it as wholesale distribution: one connection to Hotelbeds puts your product in the catalogue that thousands of travel businesses buy from when they build trips and packages.
Why a bedbank belongs in your channel mix
Consumer OTAs capture travelers who shop for activities directly. B2B distribution captures everything else: the package holiday that includes a day trip, the airline ancillary offer, the loyalty programme redemption, the high-street agent's itinerary. These bookings are typically made ahead of travel and ride on someone else's marketing budget. For operators in resort destinations especially — where a large share of visitors arrive on packages — trade distribution through a network like Hotelbeds reaches customers who were never going to find your website.
How the integration works
TicketingHub's channel manager links your live inventory to the Hotelbeds platform:
- Live availability and rates — Hotelbeds' buyers see genuinely current availability, so packaged bookings are always fulfilable.
- Centralised bookings — every Hotelbeds booking drops into your TicketingHub dashboard and daily manifests, tagged to the channel.
- Multi-currency selling — sell and receive payments in different currencies, which matters when your buyers sit in other markets.
- One inventory everywhere — direct, in-person, consumer-OTA, and B2B sales all draw down the same pool, eliminating double-bookings.
Getting into holiday packages
A beach-resort excursion operator connected to Hotelbeds can be bundled by tour operators into pre-sold holiday packages. Guests arrive with the excursion already booked — volume that arrives weeks in advance, smoothing your forward calendar.
Reaching airline and loyalty customers
Airlines and loyalty programmes increasingly retail experiences to their customers around a flight booking. Through Hotelbeds' distribution, your attraction tickets can surface in those journeys — a channel almost impossible for an individual operator to open alone.
Diversifying beyond consumer OTAs
If most third-party volume comes from one or two consumer marketplaces, your business is exposed to their algorithm and ranking changes. Trade distribution behaves differently — relationship-driven, less seasonal in the same ways — and having both makes bookings more resilient.
Setting up the connection
Hotelbeds connectivity is arranged through your TicketingHub supplier dashboard with help from our support team or your account manager: add a wholesale rate to the products you want distributed, create the partner as a reseller with that rate, create the channel with its permitted products, and share the channel credentials. The channel manager carries a simple per-booking integration fee. Commercial terms — commission, rates, markets — are agreed directly between you and Hotelbeds.
Once live, make a test booking through the channel and confirm it appears as a pending order in your Orders view with the reseller name attached.
