About travel website

Prashant83

Hi,
I m developing a travel website.
There are some options like Flights, Hotel, etc... for online booking.
How can i get the database of all airways, hotels etc so that if someone book any hotel then database of that hotel should also be updated.
For this should I contact with every Hotels, Airways or can I get database of all these from one point?

Thanks in advance
Prashant
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rulian

DB's of that information is in itself a whole industry.
Travel websites are not small projects,so most people turn to 3rd party providers for booking engines.

Search for "booking engine" on google or yahoo you will see the responces.
Some require partnership, others hefty fee's
If you are serious about making a site a competitive booking engine be prepared to put up alot of investment in time and money.

If you are simply building a website for a travel agency and you need a flight/hotel booking, then you can simplly affiliate with any one of those "booking engine" sites, maybe even travelocity or expedia,and simply use their database. So your website will be "Powered by somesite..."

Prashant83

Hi,

as per your suggestion i went through travelocity and expedia.com and some other site which provides services to travel websites like galelio.com. What I observed all is that i have to put a banner linking to that website .www.travelocity.com for example.
And when a user visits on my site for reservation then as he clicks on banner then he will be redirected to that website. But what i want is that, visitor should fill a form on my site then my site will search for availability in the database provided by third party like galelio or sabre.
So, how can I do this in my site.

Regards
Prashant Mishra
www.webdesigningcompany.net

rulian

there are services which allow you to use their database of hotels and flights via your website. So your visitor would come to your site, fill out your forms and get results on your site. Those services are subscription based, my company used
http://www.nporta.com/ one, i dont know how much they are but i know they do what you are looking for