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For a date in October in Paris it returned a single hotel option with a price of $20860361.04.

For another city it also showed a single option, but priced at $0.00.

That's not very good. It was very fast though.

Thanks, and this is because we use real world hotel information but with synthetic prices.

However, the price and availability are all calculated in real-time, and the base price of accommodation components can be modified in real-time as well, what is rather uncommon in OTA search engines.

I'm not sure what to make of your "real world hotel information" statement when your search engine clearly thinks there's just one hotel in all of Paris.

Precisely speaking: One hotel is available what means the search engine found other fully booked

That's hardly based on "real world data" then because it's completely unrealistic.

As they state, the demo only contains fake pricing data, presumably random-generated

This is correct, thanks.

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