Research On B2B2C Model Of ETourism Based On SOA

With the constantly higher request of travelers and market, the low efficiency in B2C eTourism model is gradually unsatisfied. At present, a large number of information systems in deferent travel companies separate from each other on internet environment. This situation becomes the key problem that restricts cooperation. Therefore, compared with the development of informationization of a single company, the communion and socialization of travel information seems to be more imminent. For the problem that mentioned and the specialty of tourism, this paper discussed a B2B2C solution of eTourism based on SOA.This paper studies the theory, characteristics and applied pattern of SOA and Web Services firstly. SOA is a software architecture that attracts most recently, it encapsulates business function as a component that defined as service, and promises services communicate each other by well-defined, independent interfaces. Web Services is one of the technology used to implement SOA, it provides a loose-couple and easy model which breaks the limitation of traditional distributed computing technology used in Internet environment.Then, we give a service-orient eTourism frame. By developing the various resource and business of the related suppliers as services, it rebuilds the tourist IT structure: travel companies are no longer concentrates on a whole new application but some modules of a system. Using travel agent as the example, we expatiate how to break the services out of business, how to design a services stack and how to standardize the meta-data to build up a service-orient IT infrastructure for eTourism. The service-orient eTourism frame constructs a reasonable B2B network betweens travel companies that enhances cooperation and informational integration.A practical project based on Web Services called Tour-Mart is introduced in the last chapter of this paper. We discuss its design and implementation, including the framework design, services design, distributed transaction and security. Tour-Mart is a basic application of SOA/B2B2C eTourism model, by share the Web Services in a group of travel agents. It proved to quicken the information transfer and business procedure between the buddy travel agents.