JTB BÓKUN, a activity booking management system, has begun offering a new function ‘Channel Manager API’ that allows local activity providers to connect realtime with their existing booking or ticketing systems. The single API linkage enables local activity providers to link their inventories or prices with global OTAs automatically and realtime without changing the existing systems. 

Amid rapid expansion of the inbound travel market in Japan, the API link was developed to help Japanese local activity providers collect more international customers. They no longer need development costs or specification changes to link with individual global OTAs with their existing systems maintained. 

JTB BÓKUN expects that the new function will be accepted by a wide range of sectors that maintain their own reservation and ticketing systems, including entertainment venues (such as those for theater or sports), transport operators (such as railway and bus companies), and tourism or leisure facilities.