Developing a price management decision support system for hotel brokers using free and open source tools

摘要: In the Internet age, e-commerce provides customers global reach to a wide variety of products and plays dominant role in business activity competition. Competition is especially aggressive online travel domain where wholesalers, e.g. brokerage companies, contract through their managers with thousands hotel brands trade (usually nights) for businesses or end customers. order conclude profitable contract, manager should be able compare all particulars prospective partner those competing hotels target city. Given that number comparatively small compared large hotels, possible knowledge base limited. Thus, companies are only bargain relatively limited profitability relies heavily on managers’ expertise communication skills. this paper we present price management decision support system (DSS) brokers allows analysis prices using spatial non-spatial characteristics, estimation objective relative prices, determination existing future contracts. We built our free open source tools including geographic information data mining frameworks allow money resources manpower implement such prototype. show effectiveness tool by covering major components DSS as selection integration, model user interface. demonstrate area Barcelona, Spain real 168 provided one service providers.