Difficulties of Search and Hotel booking. by alex68

Placing takes the central place in a complex of the services given to tourists during travel, and are an integral part of each round. In variety of existing means of placing the special place is occupied hotel with the industry.
The hotel industry as economic activities kind includes granting of hotel services and the residing organisation in hotels, campings, motels etc. To this activity carry also services of victualers.
For realisation of process of service of tourists in hotel there is a set of the basic services providing granting of the basic hotel services.
The booking service concerns them also. It carries out following functions:
Demands acceptance on places in hotel and their processing;
Preparation of the necessary documentation (schedules of arrival, card of movement of number fund).
As a rule, more than half of all clients of hotels before arrival preliminary reserve numbers. Booking procedure is carried out by phone through tour operators and travel agents, by mail, to a fax, e-mail, by means of global systems of booking (GDS).
Number of the basic international systems of booking concern Sabre, Galileo, Amadeus and Worldspan. Other global systems, such as Gabriel, Fidelio Hotel Bank, Axess, Infini and other, supervise too small part of the market. Totally on them it is necessary about Hotel reservation.
In the activity the hotel enterprises very often use the guaranteed booking of services of placing which assumes responsibility of hotel for preservation of free number for the visitor till certain time after prospective date of its arrival. In turn the visitor protects on itself the obligation of payment of reserved number even in case of its non-use if it has not been carried out procedures of cancellation of the reservation.
Thus, preliminary booking of number in hotel is stimulating factor both for hotel, and for the tourist.
However, as it was specified above, there is a set of systems booking online, each of which can offer both identical hotels, and the hotels which are carrying out preliminary booking ( Hotel reservation ) only through one GDS. The given factor complicates search of the most favourable offer. As various GDS can establish the additional commission for using system in this connection cost of same number can differ at booking through various GDS.
For simplification of search of hotel and the most favourable price of placing the specialised search systems giving the information on interesting hotel (the description of hotel, a photo, responses of visitors, a place on a map of the city), and as about GDS, rendering room reservation services in the given hotel and the prices offered by them for days of residing began to appear.
Number of such search systems concerns EXKURSIA.ORG . The base of the given search system at present contains the information about 600 000 + hotels, more than in 200 countries of the world. Search is carried out at present on 31 global and regional systems of booking of hotels.