Guidance on online Hotel Booking System

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Online booking for Flight, Car and Hotel  

2.0 Introduction

The online booking for flight, car, hotel will be new projects all started from scratch. These systems will be a replacement of existing online booking for flights, car and hotel where by booking of flights, car tickets and rooms is done using poor and unwanted systems. The information pertaining the number of flights and car travels expected on a day and time of each as well as hotels and rooms available for booking, number of rooms available, size of the rooms either single room, bedsitter, one bedroom or the number of bedrooms, conditions of the rooms and the personal information of those booking will all be accounted for in the system where by all this information will be enabled Software Requirement Specification (SRS). The desired online booking for flight, car and hotel will be on the website and the users will be able to view information on the available flights, car travels their respective times and price and hotels available with their respective rooms for booking as well as the status or the conditions of the rooms. SRS actually will be put into use by the software developers of the engineers in developing the required online bookings for flight, car, and hotel including the user interface. The online booking systems for flight, car and hotel will each be categorized into several sections each with its own function some of these subsections will include; the first section will be for mainly booking and maybe reservation of flights tickets travel tickets and hotel rooms where by the available number of flights, car travels in a day will be all indicated including their conditions, time of travel, cost and expected time duration of travel. Hotel rooms’ information will also be provided on its online booking site. The second section will be user interface on each of the three online booking systems for the management services that will function give updates on general information on flights and car travels as well general conditions of the rooms in case modification of the hotel system is required.

2.1 Product Perspectives.

TheseOnline booking sites for flight, car, hotel will be each independent designed systems all completely self-contained. The systems will also be a component of larger systems since it will only be used in the case of flights, car ticket booking and hotels only. Larger systems could be for many components like hostels, car parking and many other sites however these three systems will only be applicable and used only in the case of booking flights, car tickets and hotel services. The online bookings for flight, car, and hotel will be a replacement of the existing manual systems of booking and keeping records flights, car travels andhotel booking services whereby the existing systems have been very slow, error prone, costly in terms of resources, expenses and time. The following context diagram represents some of the major components of the larger systems and all other modules and their expected functions.

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2.2 Online booking for Flight, Car and Hotel Features

This section presents the key features of the online booking for flight, car, and hotel to be designed. The online booking for flight, car and hotel will perform the following major features;-

• Indicate names of Flights, Car and Hotels available for booking
• Indicate the vacant seats and rooms for booking
• Indicate details for these available seats and rooms including prices for each
• Display customers personal information
• Keeps a record of the any travel services and meals offered
• Calculate the travel, rooms and food revenue
• Do allow modification like auditing, addition or deletion of seats and rooms

2.3 User Characteristics

The sections outlines the characteristics of the desired users expected to benefit from this online bookings for flight, car and hotel. The systems targets users with low educational level, users who might have not even been exposed to such a systems at all. Since the systems are completely new replacing unwanted existing systems the targeted users are also expected to be of no experience at all to these new online booking services. However despite the low education level and lack of experience on the targeted users, the online bookings for flight, car and hotels experts these users to have a little level of technical expertise.

2.4 Constraints

This section will clearly outline the problems likely to be faced by the online bookings systems for flights, car, and hotel developers including regulatory policies, intellectual property restrictions and even high level language requirements.

2.4.1 Regulatory Policies

Some of the regulatory policy limitations include;

• The system will not able to control the age limit of customers booking the hotel, security personnel will thus be required.
• Regulatory rules maybe be hard to implement since the system will not indicate these rules.
• The online booking systems for flight, car and hotel might not be able to detect corruption or irregularities in the allocation of flights tickets, car tickets and hotel rooms.

2.4.2 Intellectual Property Restrictions

Some of the intellectual property restrictions or limitations of this online booking systems for flight, car, and hotel include the following;