ABSTRACT

This study presents the design and implementation of an online lodge booking system for Umudike, aimed at enhancing accessibility and efficiency in lodge reservations. The system addresses the challenges associated with traditional booking methods, providing a user-friendly platform for potential lodgers to browse, reserve, and pay for lodge accommodations online. The advent of computerised reservation system (CRS) has influenced the way organisations used to store and retrieve information and conduct transaction related to reservation of rooms, air ticket, train ticket and most types of transportation. A computerised reservation system has been designed to improve room reservation system that gives students access to reserve a room. The main aim of this report is to develop an online student room availability system, designed in context of a computerised reservation system. The reservation system has been implemented using PHP/MySQL coupled with HTML and JAVA scripts. PHP was used to connect the reservation web pages and the reservation database. The linear life cycle model (waterfall model), used to plan the activities and stages of the report has helped to provide a detailed and well documented report. The final artefact was tested and evaluated to assess its achievements against its requirements, and suggested possible future enhancements.