[alexginzburg]

Overbooking in the hotel industry is a normal practice. Cancellation rate is pretty high. Hotel Tonight deals with the last minute inventory, overbooking here would result in unsatisfied customers. I worked for an online hotel booking site in the past. We had integrations with multiple GDS and channel managers, SynXis (Sabre) was one of them. SynXis was not the fastest or most accurate when it came to inventory. SynXis had some ridiculous throughput limitation to query for availability, luckily we did not have to rely on that API. I can't speak about original Sabre technology since I haven't used it myself.