Everywhere around the world, people would gather at a single location for a purpose, be it to celebrate a birthday, wedding, or graduation, to hold and participate in seminars, meetings, or outreach programs, etc. The researchers endorse the idea that, as humans, we have this innate need to get together and socialize with other people, for according to Aristotle, “Man is by nature a social animal”. With this in mind, in order to plan for an event, the initial step would be to look for a venue, and to quote Whova.
com, “looking for the right venue can be intimidating”. According to Whova, an event management site, there are at least 10 things you should consider when choosing a venue for an event, and for each consideration, it would mostly require a professional opinion. You would want to choose the best venue as it partly set the attendees’ experience by which venue you select, but not everyone has the skill and patience to choose the right one. One of the things that the researchers are looking into is how they could take advantage of the Internet to make the process of choosing the right event much easier and unintimidating.In this modern day and age, nearly everyone, from all walks of life, has gadgets like smartphones and computers. These gadgets are easily acquirable for their affordability. In fact, these gadgets are so popular that according to a survey conducted by Gfk, the global revenue from smartphones alone for 2017 reached a whopping $478.
3 billion, this is its highest sales for smartphones yet. The researchers also agree that people nowadays spend most of their active time on the Internet for various purposes, some for work, and some for entertainment. A report from The Washington Post states that on average, humans spend as much as 8 hours on the Internet. In addition, according to a new research conducted by British psychologists shows that of the 8 hours spent, roughly 5 hours is on smartphones, making smartphones a generally much-preferred device over PC and tablets. Most people globally who are online visit three types of websites once a week or more: a search engine (74%) such as Google, a social networking site (64%) such as Facebook, and a portal site for checking emails (55%) such as Gmail, according to a 2015 report by IPSOS. Moreover, the number of Internet users has also increased. Approximately 3.
74 billion people are now using the Internet, a seven-fold increase from the 738 million back in 2000. What’s more, as of August 2017 according to Hosting Facts’ Internet statistical report, the total number of websites has reached 1.24 billion. Surprisingly, 1.24 billion is just a 0.1% increase according to Adobe.
The researchers find out that this is not a surprise in part because consumers are now more in favor of using mobile apps nowadays considering that around 5 hours is spent on it. A report from Compuware back in 2015 suggests that consumer preference is strongly in favor of mobile apps (85%) ahead of mobile sites. The most common reason for this is that apps are seen to be more convenient (55%), faster (48%), and easier to browse (40%). All things considered, the researchers conclude that it seems more reasonable to focus on mobile development rather than web development.The researchers determine that the respondents for the study include employees of businesses that rent out space or venue for events. No specific position or standing is required so long as these employees are involved firsthand with handling and managing the venue. Type of business our respondent will come from includes resorts, hotels, and restaurants.
The researchers will use simple random sampling in choosing the respondents to maintain objectivity. They will analyze the current system used and determine if it is, in fact, effective or not and its strengths and weaknesses.The existence of sophisticated computer systems and various innovations that we find in this Information Age justifies the age-old saying that “necessity is the mother of all inventions”.
The need to share information in a so-called ‘global network’ and man’s desire to communicate from long distances called for the birth of the World Wide Web (formerly ARPANET). With the advent of the internet, many of the mundane tasks and businesses that people conducted were made feasible. Things like buying and selling various products can now be done online. The consumer no longer needs to moves from his location. A few clicks of his mouse will suffice enough to do the job. Nowadays, the online reservation system is one of the most popular and common types of system on the Internet. According to Wikipedia, a reservation system or central reservation system (CRS) is a computerized system used to store and retrieve information and conduct transactions related to air travel, hotels, car rental, or other activities.
WebReserv suggests 9 reasons why this kind of system is good for businesses, according to them, it’s accessible 24/7, commission-free, good customer service, minimizes workload, data is structured, upselling, discount codes, simple overview, and online based payments. There are plenty of types of reservation systems out there, Most common of which are for hotel rooms reservation. A case study on UKEssays reveals that the hotel that was conducted for the study used the manual way of recording reservations, the recording was paper-based so this problem makes the work slower and more difficult for the staff to work easily and faster. The staff would also sometimes commit several errors such as an error in recording the number of the reservation room, error when they record customer details, and calculation errors. From this, we can assume that the manual way of recording reservation is not very effective.