Real time price comparing system for room reservation: a web content mining approach

Abstract

Online reservation systems provide facility to find rooms in hotels via internet. But all users don’t get full satisfaction, because the availability and rate of rooms have possibility of variation between hotels and between the third party Reservation System and the hotels’ own Reservation System sites. The main reasons would be the third party’s additional charge or the databases are not in up-to-date. In other hand hotel owners have headache of giving privileges to third party Reservation System to access their database for advertise and make reservation. As the solutions this prototypical system has the capability of comparing room rates of different hotel Reservation System web sites without accessing their databases. It fetches information about available rooms in different hotels directly from their own Reservation System sites on real-time. Web content mining approach with PHP (cURL library), JavaScript and other web development techniques were used and will give comparable output to the customers.