The Frommer’s Unlimited feeds are designed to make the integration of Frommer’s content as intuitive as possible. The feeds each represent different content types and components that can be pieced together to form the whole guide.

We hope that our feeds are completely intuitive and that implementation should be straightforward. Much of the data in the feeds speaks for itself and we hope that the metadata (typically the non-display data) is thoroughly explained in our documentation. However, as there are many different ways to use our content we may not have covered everything, so here are some recommendations to ensure you have the best understanding of our content and feeds as possible.

First Steps

• Familiarize yourself with our content
  Sites like Frommers.com have, over the years, worked out what is the best data to display to the user for any given request. If you are building a page for a restaurant, take a look at Frommers.com to see how it looks there. All the data displayed is available in the feeds and should be structured in a clear way, but a visual representation will help.
• Understand what data is for display and what is for querying
  If you are using our feeds dynamically, we would expect you to only use display data as all the query work should have been done up front.
• Talk to our development team
  We have years of experience supporting our partners and understand the issues involved with developing new travel products.

Implementation choices

Once you have a better understanding of the feeds in general it’s time to think about your specific implementation choices.  There are two key decisions that need to be made before starting implementation.

• Deciding how to retrieve the feed data
  Dynamically or a behind the scenes data dump?  Dynamically is our preferred approach but both methods are discussed in more detail here.
• Deciding whether to use XML or JSON
  Using XML or JSON is an open choice dependent what best suits your environment.  Both options are discussed here.