Online Booking System Research Articles

Pricing consistency across direct and indirect distribution channels in South West UK hotels

This study seeks to ascertain if hotels across the South West of the UK price their room nights consistently across each of the distribution channels utilized, such as the hotel's website, `bricks and mortar' travel agents, third party online booking systems, telephone, and emails. While studies examining pricing consistency have been done among larger hotel chains or groups, there had been no studies looking at smaller independent hotels, particularly hotels in the UK. The results will suggest that hotel pricing across channels show no comparable difference but indicates that the star rating of a hotel plays a vital role in pricing decisions and in the methods of distribution utilized.

Tourist affiliate program while using online booking system with possibility of entering B2B code

Affiliate marketing programs are one of the most powerful tools for online marketing since the merchant presenting a product or a service decides on the commissioning model and the commission is granted only if the desired results have been reached. Affiliate marketing is based offline as much as tourism itself and it relies on the commission that tourist companies pay to their partners (affiliates) who bring new guests. This paper will present the basics of how online affiliate programs work, benefits they bring and steps for their further implementation. It will explain in detail how to establish an affiliate program for dynamic web pages which use online booking system platforms ffB2BS-that offer a possibility of entering a B2Bcode. Special attention will be paid to SEO (Search Engine Optimization). It will also present results of a research on Croatian hotels web pages and the implementation of the online booking system and affiliate programs. Having in mind the insufficient deployment of online potentials, the aim of the paper is to stress the need for setting up an effective method of monitoring changes and updates in the online world as well as implementing new promotional possibilities, all aimed at increasing sales. The goal of the paper is to explore advantages and disadvantages of the affiliate program as a new sales channel and promote the possibility to implement it in one of the biggest Croatian hotel companies, Maistra d.d. Rovinj. Along with methods of data acquiring and different techniques of creative thinking, the following scientific-research methods were also used: statistic, historic, descriptive, comparison, interview, analysis and synthesis, induction and deduction.

Barriers to Online Booking of Scheduled Airline Tickets

SUMMARY In the early years of e-Commerce, the tourism sector had high expectations for online booking. All the major airlines invested huge sums of money, not only to make booking features available, but also to integrate them into attractive, easy-to-use Web offerings. Nevertheless, even after years of investment and improvements, the booking ratio for all but the no-frills airlines is still disappointing. This paper discusses reasons for the slow adoption of online booking. Online booking systems are analyzed as consumer information environments for scheduled airline tickets. The analyses are based on two experiments conducted in 1999 and 2002 respectively. The negative effects of the underlying market structure and the product complexity in the adoption of online booking is also discussed.

Booking staff online.

For those still using agency nurses and midwives, online booking could become a convenient option if a new website is successful, writes Steven Black. Newcross Healthcare Solutions, a company that provides temporary staffing solutions for NHS trusts and private hospitals, and for public and private care homes, has launched a UK wide online booking system.

World-Wide On-Line Central Banking in the Late 70's … Can a Babylonian Confusion of Tongues Be Forestalled?

The difficult problem of interface is typically not one of inward interface but one of outward interface. The data processing system for a given industrial corporation may be beautifully designed, but there may arise large problems of extending it to incorporate the activities of a newly acquired subsidiary already having a data solution of its own. A national on-line real-time hotel booking system may work well, but it just may not easily merge with a similar system in another country to form an international network. The present note describes the grave interface problems that seem to loom ahead in the field of on-line real-time central banking. The suggestion is put forward that the International Monetary Fund has a unique responsibility in preparing for interface between international payment networks of tomorrow.