Will my hotel search results take a long time to load if I connect several suppliers at once?

Yes, adding more hotel suppliers to the same search usually does make it slower, because your website has to wait for each of them to answer before it can put together a full set of results for your customer.

How much slower depends mostly on the suppliers themselves. Some reply quickly, others take their time, especially on a wide search such as a whole city with flexible dates or a long stay. Your website cannot make a supplier respond faster than it chooses to, so the slowest one in the group tends to set the pace for everybody. This is why two agencies running the same kind of portal can see quite different search speeds, simply because they are connected to a different mix of suppliers.

There are sensible ways to cut the wait. Results can be shown as they arrive, so your customer starts reading the first hotels while the rest are still coming in. Hotel names, photos, descriptions and locations can be kept ready in advance, so only the live prices and availability need to be fetched at search time. Suppliers that are consistently slow, or that rarely give you the best rate for the destinations you actually sell, can be left out of the first search and used only when a customer opens a particular hotel. What is possible for you will depend on your plan and on what each supplier permits under your agreement with them.

If your searches already feel slow, the useful next step is to find out which connection is holding things up, so ask our team to review the response times supplier by supplier before you add any more to the mix.