DEVICE AND METHOD FOR RESERVING TRAVEL PRODUCTS

摘要

The invention relates to a method and device for reserving travel products and to a computer program. The invention consists of a central computer system which is used to process user requests relating to a round trip and which comprises means for calculating information relating to travel products, including sales prices, and for transmitting said information to the user, whereby the central computer system is accessible from at least one user station (1). The invention comprises: a travel solution search engine (MF) which can access at least one travel segment database (FDB) and which is equipped with (i) means for determining outbound segments and return segments that meet the input criteria, said input criteria containing at least one outbound trip date, one return trip date and data defining a travel itinerary comprising an outbound trip and a return trip, and (ii) means for defining possible travel solutions by applying association rules and associating pairs of outbound segments and return segments; a fare search engine comprising means which access at least one fare, such as to provide marketable travel products; a travel product grouping engine (MG) which applies grouping criteria containing at least one fare equivalence criterion; means for extracting the outbound and return segments from each group of travel products; and means for displaying information relating to at least one group of travel products at the user station (1), the outbound and return segments being displayed separately.