FEATURES OF DESIGNING ONLINE SERVICE FOR SHORT-TERM RENTAL OF HOUSING FOR TOURISTS

Abstract

The aim of this work is to create requirements for the search engine housing system for tourists, easy to use and with a pleasant design, adapted to different users with the possibility of intercultural exchange. The main task is to create an online service that combines the features of Booking.com as a structured rental system and the Couchsurfing.com platform as a service for sharing hospitality and finding new friends worldwide.

During the work, a detailed review and study of the development process of tourism and the impact of the Internet on the promotion of online services for finding and renting housing. Existing analogues of rental housing systems were described.

The main task of developed online service is to provide tourists with the opportunity to search for and rent apartments for the duration of their travels. The traveler, being on the site's main page, should be able to specify the search criteria, namely to enter the details of the destination, the desired rental dates, the number of inhabitants and special requirements for apartments. The online service, in turn, must immediately sort the proposals based on the specified characteristics and display options to the user.

According to the research, functional requirements for the future service were formed and described, the architecture of client-server software development was chosen for implementation, steps of software product implementation were described, data warehouse creation was created, and the image of ready online service was presented.