To make connectivity easier and more efficient for the tours, activities, attractions and experiences
The OCTO standards help operators, reservation technology companies, distributors, and everything in between to connect to each other easily and efficiently but providing an API specification that can be used as a template for new API connections or as an add-on to an existing API.
OCTO is an independent organization not affiliated with any company or group of companies. The organization is administered and managed by a group of volunteers from the tours, activities, attractions and experiences sector and shall not have any commercial alignment or affiliation with any companies in the industry.
OCTO is an impartial industry association that seeks to advance the industry as a whole and is committed to impartiality and the best interests of all industry segments and participating organizations as well as our collective customers.
OCTO is a not-for-profit organization committed to openness and transparency. The organization’s budget shall be made public, as will the minutes of all board and committee meetings. Transparency will be crucial to maintain the trust of members and the industry at large, and so that members can have confidence that OCTO is using its resources wisely to achieve its mission.
The process of developing standards requires participation from a committed community of individuals. It starts with operators sharing their requirements, the specifications team translating those needs into specifications, and the oversight of the OCTO Board of Directors.
Members of OCTO are in some cases competitors and in some cases partners. As an industry trade association it is our goal to ensure that all members, regardless of their commercial relationships are comfortable collaborating and cooperating to ensure the goals of OCTO are achieve. To that end, all members are bound by the OCTO Code of Conduct which outlines every member's responsibility to fairness.
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