Dear All,

I'm interesting create a online hotel room reservation website for etc www.booking.com or www.asiarooms.com

Anybody did it before?

I'm currently try to working on it, I using dreamweaver + mysql for above development. I manage to get the hotel corporate rate/ special rate and room allotment for instant confirmation when guest book the room thru online. I personnally is a hotel manager. I understand how the booking procedure flow work, but i no idea how to create the website with instant confirmation and when guest search for hotel room will show available.

However, i not professional on web development. I not understand how does the room searching engine work.

Anybody can sharing with me?

thanks,
desmond

This post has been edited by deschan: 14 Jun, 2009 - 03:20 AM

Typically your website will need to connect to a computer system for your hotel which provides it with the information on available rooms, rates, and reservation information.

Now on a global scale there are vendors out there that have the job of collecting all this information from hotels around the world (or in the case of air travel, airlines) and provide access to those systems for a fee. The key term is known as a GDS (Global Distribution System) or sometimes called a CRS (Computer Reservations System).

In the airline industry (where I work as a professional programmer) we interact with systems like Amadeus, Sabre, Worldspan and Galileo that provide such access. These vendors also handle booking of hotel rooms, rental cars, cruises etc.

Typically these types of systems also offer a programming interface where applications you write can interact with their information. Or if you have your own database where your hotel enters information about guests and reservations, your website can query that database and provide booking capability.

It really depends on the size of your operation, your budget, your expertise in technology and how you store your data regarding guests to your hotel.

I have included a few links to the GDS I have mentioned above and if you are just a small hotel with a single database, then perhaps talking to a programmer in your area might be an easy and cheap way of going about making bookings. That programmer will need to bridge the web and your database for reservation capability.

Amadeus.com
Sabre Holdings
Galileo
Worldspan

Enjoy and good luck.

Dear Martyr,

Basically, I will create a supplier log in page ( supplier herein mean is hotelier), which allow supplier log in to allocate room available on certain day, all the week or the whole month, when hotel occupancy is low and have more room to sell. On the other hand, supplier can log in take out the room allocation time to time when hotel occupancy are high or no room be sell.

The main page (index page) for the consumer/ guest/ traveller, will go in to search room (query that database)available on certain date. If the supplier allocate room on that date the system will show available and process to "booking", if supplier take out the room allocation than the system will show not available. This is for one hotel, if for all hotel; For etc traveller quenry 23/12/2009; 1 room; twin persons; country Hong Kong> area Wan Chai; than the system will show all hotel room available on wan chai area which supplier was allocate room available at 23/12/2009.

Actually I going to operate a online travel agent business, i able to collect all hotel information, rates and so on. Currently now the travel industry consumer trends was changed, traditionally travel agent which operate business with shop will close due to high expenses of rental ans so on.

At this stage, i fail to create a quenry page (which inclusive date search link to supplier; country and city seach). And i no idea at where i start create a supplier log in page. If i out source will be very expensive, so i choose i create my self. But i no idea how i start, i have knowledge of html able to create by dreamweaver. Basic knowledge of MySql that all, any body can help me?


thanks,
desmond