Travel booking method and system

摘要

A method for searching for a travel product having one or more data elements associated therewith from a plurality of potentially suitable travel products in a system comprising a web based interface for receiving inputs from a user and from one or more sources of data, and for displaying results to a user based on the inputs; a business logic layer providing access to the sources of data in a predetermined manner, such as based on rules and preferences; and a database including data relating to the parties associated with the system; wherein the method comprises the steps of: entering one or more search parameters into the interface; launching multiple simultaneous searches based on the search criteria and one or more attribute of the travel product to the one or more sources of data to identify the potentially suitable travel products; displaying the potentially suitable travel products on the interface; selecting one or more of the potentially suitable travel products for further processing; further processing the potentially suitable travel products by normalizing the data elements associated with the potentially suitable travel products into a homogeneous display; determining a combination of data elements of the one or more potentially suitable travel products which in combination are the most suitable travel products for a customer based on customer preferences and attributes.

主权项

1. A method for searching for a travel product from a plurality of potentially suitable travel products, the method comprising:
receiving one or more search parameters from a web-based interface; launching multiple simultaneous searches based on the search parameters and one or more attributes of the travel product to one or more sources of data to identify the potentially suitable travel products, wherein at least one particular potentially suitable travel product comprises an itinerary including bundled data elements, and each bundled data element corresponds to a respective individual leg of the itinerary; displaying the potentially suitable travel products on the web-based interface; obtaining a selection of a subset of the potentially suitable travel products for further processing; further processing the subset of potentially suitable travel products by normalizing the one or more data elements associated with the subset of potentially suitable travel products into a homogeneous display including separating each bundled data element including the corresponding respective individual leg of the itinerary of the at least one particular potentially suitable travel product; and determining at least one most suitable travel product for a customer based on preferences of the customer and the one or more attributes, wherein the at least one most suitable travel product comprises a combination of two or more separated data elements from two or more potentially suitable travel products of the subset such that the at least one most suitable travel product comprises a combination of a corresponding respective individual leg of each of the two or more separated data elements from the two or more potentially suitable travel products of the subset, wherein the combination of the two or more separated data elements of the at least one most suitable travel product includes at least one of the bundled data elements and the corresponding respective individual leg that has been separated from the itinerary of the at least one particular potentially suitable travel product.