Booking a business trip often looks simple from the user’s perspective. You enter where you are traveling from, where you need to go, and when the trip should happen. A few seconds later, you get a list of hotels, flights, or rail connections. But under that clean interface, a lot is happening. A travel platform worktrips.com has to collect data from many suppliers, clean it, compare it, remove duplicates, and present the result in a way that helps the user make a decision quickly. This is where data aggregation in a travel platform becomes critical. It is not just about importing offers from different systems. The real challenge is turning fragmented supplier data into one reliable, readable, and useful offer view.
The real problem: travel data is not consistent
Travel data is rarely consistent. Different suppliers may describe the same hotel, room, flight, or booking condition in different ways. The differences can appear almost anywhere in the record. For example, suppliers may use different formats for:
hotel names,
addresses,
