Tourism web services using e-business

E-tourism is a leading area in e-commerce, with an increasing number of travel agencies offering their services through online transaction brokers. This project started with requirements-gathering activities based on the questionnaires given to travel agencies and customers. We conducted the literat...

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Main Author: Muchlis, Esa Firmansyah
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2008
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description E-tourism is a leading area in e-commerce, with an increasing number of travel agencies offering their services through online transaction brokers. This project started with requirements-gathering activities based on the questionnaires given to travel agencies and customers. We conducted the literature review on tourism sector that support with different technology. The purpose is to understand what really needed by the travel agencies in order to improve their business and propose a value added to their customer services. Mobile reservation is needed for travelers who usually move from one place to another, providing this mobile reservation system can help them to plan their businesses or holiday trips. Mobile reservation is also needed for travel agent and service provider to support their services. This project describes the development of mobile application that can invoke services from airline, car rental, to hotel reservation through travel agent as a broker. The implementation of web service technology and service-oriented architecture based on loose coupling principle among interacted-system has been used in developing this project. In the end of the project, some questionnaires regarding to the testing and satisfaction level of users have indicated the applicability of the proposed approach.
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spelling utm-94972018-07-19T01:51:03Z http://eprints.utm.my/9497/ Tourism web services using e-business Muchlis, Esa Firmansyah HF Commerce QA76 Computer software E-tourism is a leading area in e-commerce, with an increasing number of travel agencies offering their services through online transaction brokers. This project started with requirements-gathering activities based on the questionnaires given to travel agencies and customers. We conducted the literature review on tourism sector that support with different technology. The purpose is to understand what really needed by the travel agencies in order to improve their business and propose a value added to their customer services. Mobile reservation is needed for travelers who usually move from one place to another, providing this mobile reservation system can help them to plan their businesses or holiday trips. Mobile reservation is also needed for travel agent and service provider to support their services. This project describes the development of mobile application that can invoke services from airline, car rental, to hotel reservation through travel agent as a broker. The implementation of web service technology and service-oriented architecture based on loose coupling principle among interacted-system has been used in developing this project. In the end of the project, some questionnaires regarding to the testing and satisfaction level of users have indicated the applicability of the proposed approach. 2008-10 Thesis NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.utm.my/9497/1/EsaFirmansyahMuchlisMFSKSM2008.pdf Muchlis, Esa Firmansyah (2008) Tourism web services using e-business. Masters thesis, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Computer Science and Information System. http://dms.library.utm.my:8080/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:841?site_name=Restricted Repository
spellingShingle HF Commerce
QA76 Computer software
Muchlis, Esa Firmansyah
Tourism web services using e-business
title Tourism web services using e-business
title_full Tourism web services using e-business
title_fullStr Tourism web services using e-business
title_full_unstemmed Tourism web services using e-business
title_short Tourism web services using e-business
title_sort tourism web services using e-business
topic HF Commerce
QA76 Computer software
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