Internet-Based Research On Design And Implementation Of Hotel Reservation System And Information Coordination For Tourists

The web is a powerful communication channel that we can count as we develop our next generation of systems. While communication is one compelling benefit contributing to the continued growth of the web, seamless distribution of application logic is another particularly compelling benefit of moving to an intranet architecture for applications traditionally deployed as pure client/server applications.As organizations have realized the power of the Internet and Internet technologies like Internet Protocol (IP) and the web, numerous business applications have already been developed in such a short period of time.This thesis presents the design and implementation for hotel reservation system and design of Internet Virtual Private network for three tourist centers in Uganda as case study. These centers are visited by tourists who come from various parts of the world. They come to see wild life and natural resources.For online reservation system development, Microsoft Visual Basic, Active Server Pagesare combined with Microsoft Visual InterDev and Microsoft BackOffice technologies tobuild cross-platform Web applications. The existing code of Visual Basic is used to buildfully encapsulated, Visual Basic Server-Side components that provide the business logicfor the application, while using Active Server Pages and Visual InterDev to integrate andmanage these components within web application.Microsoft SQL server is used to design and implement relational database with OpenDatabase Connectivity (ODBC) as interface.The Intranet if implemented using Internet Virtual Private Network.The first chapter of this research work gives brief introduction to the case study area, outlines the benefits of Internet, and states project goal, objectives and methodology. The second chapter describes the technology used for solving problems aforementioned in the first chapter. The third chapter discusses the design and implementation of reservation system for accommodation and set up of Internet Virtual Private Network. The fourth chapter discusses database selection and network security, the fifth chapter discusses network management and IP addressing and the last chapter is the summary, project achievements and conclusion.