I wanted to know the technical details of how an online air ticketing/ hotel booking site works (expedi.com or hotels.com or orbitz.com, etc.)? The specific question is how online site brings the result when someone make search for ticket booking? Does online site has access to airlines and hotel's database? So that whenever someone make search online then that site connects to all participating airlines or hotels database and query them and after that do mining on those data and show it to end user? And when user purchases any ticket then how airlines or hotels database gets updated?
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Answers by: Serg.Potap | Fear of Fish | JSO1 | Adam Thorsen
Hi! I know something about the topic you interesting in. I'm doing my PhD in economice of airlines and travel agents, so I have some.
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