Holiday Accommodation and Hotel Booking Site - Case Study

Client Profile

The client is New York based company in the business of food, beverage and hospitality.

Business Need

To create a premium online property search and online reservation platform that will enable the homeowners, guesthouses and Bed & Breakfast establishments a direct and extensive access to the international travelers for 2010 Soccer World Cup visiting South Africa - marketing their holiday accommodation in such a way as to amplify their exposure and maximize occupancy. The goal for the international travelers was to create a trusted, easy to use, extensive and completely satisfying search engine Web site that will amplify the travelers' ability to discover and reserve their ideal holiday accommodation.


Solution

We designed and developed a database driven vacation accommodation website that enables the property owners to publish their properties to be rented and facilitates the travelers to find and book the properties. The website provides user friendly control panel for property / hotel / guesthouse owners to manage their rooms to be rented. It offers extensive property search facility and booking engine to book the hotel rooms.

Features

  • User End includes
    • Property search.
    • Properties details.
    • Add properties to favorites.
    • Property booking.
  • Admin (Property Owner)
    • Add / Edit properties.
    • Manage properties, manage room availabilities.
    • Manage booking Inquiries.
  • Super Administrator Section includes
    • Manage property owners.
    • Manage users.
    • Manage properties.

Tools and Technologies used for implementation

  • PHP 5 [With OOP]
  • JavaScript
  • MySQL
  • Smarty Templating Engine