For this week's development update, you can see that Hotels from wt-fixtures is going to be getting fresh availability data every month. You can read up more about how it works on our wiki.

We have deployed the simplest possible version of our booking tool. You can try it out for yourself and see what it looks like with Hotel Mazurka in the playground environment. This won’t be storing any personal information that comes through it. The availability numbers are actually updated accordingly. You can read more about the setup on our wiki here.

We also have a walkthrough of our basic hotel explorer that you can see below. This is just a demo in the playground environment but it does give you a good idea of what the workflow looks like right now and how people will be able to book directly a hotel without a middleman.

In our Google Group, we had some additional discussions that can be seen here. To recap, we discussed our integration with NDC and how Winding Tree interacts with the NDC data structure and where some or all data should reside. Being that Winding Tree believes in an open and decentralized structure, we believe it best to contain that information within the Winding Tree platform so that it is accessible to all and avoiding the appearance and function of gatekeepers or middlemen.

In addition, we discussed various aspects of how our search API functions, naming of certain static data, particulars of the use of Swarm for data storage purposes. If you have opinions and insight into how some of these things should operate please do join the discussion and offer your opinion and feedback — this is your chance to be among the first community members who will take it to the next step and define the direction of the platform collaboratively. Check it out — some lively discussions among travel tech experts and companies like Air France — KLM are already underway.

Thank you for your continued support and patience! If you have any questions, join our Telegram, any technical discussion should go to our Google Group. If you want to contribute, a good place to start is our GitHub.