Online reservation
E-reservation or online reservation is a process of making a reservation of tickets for a hotel room or tourist packages etc using the internet.
Advantages/Benefits
Advantages/Benefits
- Safety- when we book e-ticket it directly Store our information in companies database so it is safe and reliable
- Ease- e-tickets can be purchased online and printed at home so theft or loss of the printed e-ticket is not a worry
- Available anywhere- one can buy e-ticket anywhere. Where there is an internet connection
- Fast- e-tickets are fast and do not need a middle man and also provide the best price
Application areas of online reservation
- Travel tickets
- Hotel rooms
- Sports matches
- Movie and theaters
- Events
E-reservation process
We can book e-tickets using following steps:-
- Login into the site that provides a booking system. e.g. bookmyshow.com cleartrip.com makemytrip.com etc.
- Now we need to provide details about the required details
- Then we can click submit button to proceed further
- Now we can make payment using debit/credit card/UPI etc
- After the payment website will show a ticket and now we can take a printout or can save it as a picture/PDF format.
Railway ticket reservation
We can reserve a railway ticket using the following steps:-
- First, we need to go to the site irctc.co.in
- Now we can book a ticket for a specific train by providing details like from station, to station, train number and coach time, etc.
- Now we can pay payments using debit/credit card etc.
- Now we can take a printout of the railway ticket.
There are broadly two kinds of e-reservation
- Live e-reservation- in this type of e-reservation all reservations on the internet are processed at the actual place. In this type of e-reservation reservations are confirmed on the spot.
- Non-live e-reservation- in this type of e-reservation all reservations on the internet are processed using websites from different places and these types of e-reservation are not confirmed instantly. They will take some time and later inform the user about the confirmation of the ticket.