Hotelbeds for Travel Agencies: API, Login & Registration Guide

Hotelbeds is the name most people reach for when they say "bedbank". If your agency is evaluating it — or you've been told you need "a Hotelbeds API integration" and want to know what that actually involves — this guide walks through the platform, the registration path, the login, and the realistic ways an agency gets this inventory in front of paying customers.

What is Hotelbeds?

Hotelbeds is one of the world's largest B2B accommodation wholesalers, operating under HBX Group. It distributes roughly 300,000+ hotels worldwide to tens of thousands of travel trade buyers — agencies, tour operators, airlines and OTAs. A large share of its inventory is directly contracted, which is where bedbanks earn their keep: exclusive availability and rates the public sites don't show.

Alongside rooms it distributes transfers and activities, but hotels are the core, and for many agencies worldwide a Hotelbeds contract is the backbone of their hotel product.

How a travel agency registers

Registration happens on the official site, hotelbeds.com, and is strictly B2B. What to expect:

• Company verification — legal registration, licence where applicable, country of operation
• Business profile — they'll want to understand your distribution: retail, online, groups, corporate
• Commercial setup — payment terms start prepaid; credit comes with demonstrated volume
• For API access specifically, a technical onboarding with test credentials (their developer portal documents the APIs) before production keys

Hotelbeds onboarding is more structured than RateHawk's and geared to businesses that will produce volume. Small agencies do get accounts, but the process rewards looking like a serious, registered operation.

Hotelbeds login

Everything runs from hotelbeds.com — the booking interface for contracted agents and the developer/partner areas both link from there. Only ever enter your credentials on the official HBX/Hotelbeds domains.

The Hotelbeds API — what it is and what it takes

Hotelbeds' API (their developer platform is well documented) exposes availability, rates, booking and content endpoints. It is powerful and also a real engineering project: rate limits, hotel content mapping, booking flows, error handling and reconciliation all have to be built and maintained. A custom integration typically costs months of developer time before the first booking.

The alternative is a platform that has already done that work. Travora Hub ships with a Hotelbeds integration: you bring your own Hotelbeds credentials, and your branded website searches Hotelbeds next to your other suppliers with your markup applied — while the commercial relationship stays 100% between you and Hotelbeds. Details on the hotel booking engine page.

What Hotelbeds is strong at

• Scale — one of the largest directly-contracted hotel portfolios in the industry
• Beach & resort destinations — its Spanish heritage shows in Mediterranean, Caribbean and resort depth
• Reliability of content — mature APIs, mature processes, mature support

Hotelbeds vs the other big suppliers

Supplier	Model	Sweet spot	Guide
Hotelbeds	Bedbank, direct contracting at scale	Global scale, resorts	This article
RateHawk	Aggregated wholesale	Price competition per search	RateHawk guide
WebBeds	Bedbank, regional brands	Europe & Middle East depth	WebBeds guide
TBO	B2B marketplace	Asia & Middle East networks	TBO guide

In practice the strongest setups pair Hotelbeds' contracted depth with an aggregator's breadth and let software pick the winner per hotel, per date — the multi-supplier comparison a B2B booking portal does automatically.

Frequently asked questions

Is Hotelbeds only for big OTAs?

No — agencies of all sizes hold accounts. Expect proper vetting; a registered company with a working website carries weight. (If you don't have one yet, that's literally what a travel agency website is for.)

How much does the API cost?

API access itself is part of the commercial agreement — the real cost is the engineering to use it. That's the cost a ready-made platform removes.

Net or commissionable rates?

Net rates with your own markup is the standard model.

Does Hotelbeds cover Makkah and Madinah?

Yes — alongside other suppliers it's a useful source for pilgrimage inventory; see our Hajj & Umrah booking software for how agencies combine sources for Umrah packages.

Sell from multiple suppliers under one brand

Travora Hub is a white-label booking platform for travel agencies. You connect your own supplier credentials — RateHawk, WebBeds, Hotelbeds and more — and your customers search once on your website, your brand, your prices, while the platform compares your connected suppliers and shows the best rate for every hotel. No developers needed, live in days.

Apply now — launch your own booking website or explore the white-label travel platform.

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Disclaimer: RateHawk, WebBeds, Hotelbeds, HBX Group, TBO and all related names and logos are trademarks of their respective owners. Travora Hub is an independent software provider. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or acting on behalf of any of these companies. Supplier accounts are opened directly with each supplier under their own terms, and details described here can change — always confirm current requirements on the supplier's official website.