Online Hotel Reservation System www.reservations.lk

Abstract

Reservations.lk system is an ecommerce web site which enables customers to perform room reservation in hotels in Sri Lanka. Practical issues someone has to face when he/she wants to do a reservation has been addressed here. Customers can compare room rates with their preferences and select the best and cheapest one through the system. This system opens rural hotels to the world as well. Any hotel can get reservations to their hotel even without having their own web site. The system is a combination of major three components. The reservations.lk web site is the client end of this system and clients can register, perform reservations, and cancel reservations. All registered hotels have their own portal to deal with the system. They can access their portal through the given sub domain. Hoteliers can maintain their room types and rates through the system. They can manage their reservations as well. Secured control panel has been given to the administrator who is nominated from Fexcon International. Through the control panel they can perform administrative tasks such as management of master data, hotels, and reservations. Both hoteliers and system administrator can generate some important analytical reports. The system was developed with PHP MysQL platform. PHP, XHTML, XML, AJAX and SQL programming languages have been used to implement the system. The system is connected to a MySQL relational database. Whole web site is hosted on apache web server. Rapid prototyping methodology has been used to complete the project. The system is using three-tire architecture in both implementation and live environments. Adobe dreamweaver was the major development tool. At the moment the system is online and has started registration of hotels. According to Fexcon International management, the initial registration process will take up to three months while the system is new to the business. There are several suggested future developments as well. I am looking forward to help Fexcon International on developing those new components.