Last-Minute Travel Application

It is impossible for a travel agent to keep track of all the offered tour packages. Traditional database-driven applications, as used by most of the tour operators, are not sufficient enough to implement a sales process with consultation on the World Wide Web. The last-minute travel application presented here uses case-based reasoning to bridge this gap and simulate the sales assistance of a human travel agent. A case retrieval net, as an internal data structure, proved to be efficient in handling the large amount of data. A usual tour package contains the flight to the destination and back, transfers from the airport to the hotel and back, board, and lodging.