Hotel reservation system plays a great role and has a potential effect on day to day performance measures, this type of system have highly evolved from decades due to high demand for their use, effective and efficiency in any given institutions. Due to the rapid change of technology the use of such system has become a necessity to any given high learning institution for better performance and be used with quite a large number of users at the same time but it can save time, resources and creates awareness of the evolving technology.
1.1 PROBLEM STATEMENT
Although technology is rapidly changing almost at the speed of light, some Hotels are still using manual reservation system to check in/out customers, Hotel facilities , management, share ideas and passing of information, for instance Staff performance assessment, customers roomt are done manually hence providing: * Providing untimely assessment information’s. * Consumes a lot of time, * Waste and use lots of resource such as forms.
The sub-objective are to identify the requirement and design the Hotel reservation system that will resolve the above problem of manual reservation system, by designing and implementing the proposed system successfully it will benefit many parties; firstly by providing staff with access of easy view form.
1.2. SYSTEM GOAL AND OBJECTIVE
1.3. GOALS
The main goal is to develop a Hotel reservation system to replace the paper based Hotel reservation. 1.4. OBJECTIVES: * To ease staff and admin with facilities for reservation process. * To enable sharing of ideas, harmonize and provide timely useful information on how best to enhance performance. * To ease decision making, save time and resources and utilize opportunities of new technology
1.5. SIGNIFICANCE OF THE SYSTEM * Encourage adherence to internationally accepted Hotel performance standards. * Ease reservation and management process and much easier to administer. * To
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