Overview
TripBuilder allows you to filter accommodation results based on your most suitable criteria. This is an important feature, particularly for quickly identifying suitable offers in locations where available accommodations may number in the hundreds or even thousands.
Steps to Configure Accommodation Search Filters
Go to Settings
Click on Distribution Channels
Click on your TripBuilder ID
Click on the Planner tab
Scroll down to Accommodation Search Filters
Each search filter will have one of the following configuration options defined:
Disabled: The filter is not displayed in the user interface.
Quick search: The filter is available and applied only to the results already loaded in the browser.
Full search: The filter is available, and using it will initiate new accommodation searches in the bed banks. The new search can reveal new offers that were not listed before due to a limited number of results being loaded at a time (e.g., cities like Paris and New York may have thousands of accommodations, but only up to 1,000 offers are loaded at once to TripBuilder).
Available Search Filters
The following search filters are available:
Text
Disabled | Quick Search | Full Search
Star Rating
Disabled | Quick Search | Full Search
Remarks:
Star ratings generally come from GIATA data, except when the accommodation is unmapped in GIATA.
When applying the filter, TripBuilder will consider all ratings between the selected values. For example, if 3 and 4 stars are selected, it includes 3 stars, 3.5 stars, and 4 stars accommodations but excludes anything below 3 stars or above 4 stars.
TrustYou Rating
Disabled | Quick Search
Remark: Guest Ratings for accommodations are provided by TrustYou. These ratings apply only to live supply accommodations and not to inventory accommodations. Applying a guest rating filter will exclude all inventory accommodations from the results.
Price
Disabled | Quick Search
Hotel Facts
Disabled | Quick Search
Meal Types
Disabled | Quick Search | Full Search
Note: The availability of the Meal Types filter depends on the Show Meal Tag configuration (found in Distribution Channels > Planner tab > Product-Specific Configurations section > Accommodations sub-section). If this setting is enabled, the Meal Types filter can be configured; otherwise, it will automatically be set to Disabled.
Source
Disabled | Quick Search | Full Search
Cross-border
Disabled | Quick Search
Expand search radius
Disabled | Full Search
Cancellation policy
Disabled | Quick Search
Remark: When applying this filter, TripBuilder will exclude accommodations where all room options are non-refundable. Accommodations are considered if at least one room option offers free cancellation. This filtering logic applies only to the Accommodation Overview screen. On the Accommodation Detail screen, all room options are displayed, regardless of whether the filter has been set.
Offline
Disabled | Full Search
Remark: To enable this option, you must first enable Offline Accommodations. Know more in the article Hotel Search and Results within TripBuilder.
Display on the Accommodation Overview Page
The configured search filters are always displayed on the left side of the Accommodation Overview Page. The filters (from top to bottom) are:
TrustYou Rating
Text
Star Rating
Price
Hotel Facts
In the screenshot below, find the filters displayed (from top to bottom):
Hotel Facts
Source
Cancellation Policy
Meal Types
Cross-border
Expand Search Radius