CN114519442A

CN114519442A - Travel booking method, system, equipment and storage medium of OBT platform

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Publication number: CN114519442A
Application number: CN202210177442.8A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 姚彧昕; 宋长利; 郑文奇; 吴怀洲; 杜军辉; 纪承周
Original assignee: Ctrip Travel Information Service Shanghai Co Ltd
Current assignee: Ctrip Travel Information Service Shanghai Co Ltd
Priority date: 2022-02-24
Filing date: 2022-02-24
Publication date: 2022-05-20

Abstract

The invention provides a travel booking method, a travel booking system, travel booking equipment and a storage medium of an OBT platform, wherein the method comprises the following steps: acquiring form information input by a user and a group unit to which the user belongs in an OBT platform; when the group unit belongs to a preset group set, generating order creation request information according to the form information, and sending the order creation request information to a booking platform; the booking platform submits an order according to the order creating request information, generates order information, creates a payment form, returns the payment form to the OBT platform and performs travel booking according to the order information; this application makes business travel supplier can the standard payment flow of adaptation OBT platform, and the customer of being convenient for is reserved the business travel resource on the OBT platform, does benefit to the business travel reservation stability of guaranteeing business travel supplier.

Description

Travel booking method, system, equipment and storage medium of OBT platform

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of travel booking of an OBT (on-board diagnostics) platform, in particular to a travel booking method, a travel booking system, travel booking equipment and a storage medium of the OBT platform.

Background

For some enterprises, there is its own travel management platform, such as an OBT (Online Booking Tool) platform. The platform can be accessed to business travel suppliers to realize reservation of travel resources such as air tickets, hotels and the like. When the employees of the enterprises need to go on business, business travel booking is realized on the platform through business travel suppliers. On the other hand, the business trip supplier provides business trip booking service for the staff of the client enterprise by accessing the OBT platform.

The employees of the client enterprise may choose either individual payments or public account payments when making payments. When individual payment is selected, according to the standardized payment process of the OBT platform, an order is submitted first and then payment is carried out. However, for business travel providers providing travel resources for OBT platforms, in the payment process, payment inquiry is usually required before submitting an order. Therefore, how to adapt the standard payment process of the OBT platform is a problem faced by business travel suppliers.

Disclosure of Invention

To solve the problems in the prior art, an object of the present invention is to provide a travel booking method, system, device and storage medium for an OBT platform, so that a travel provider can adapt to a standard payment process of the OBT platform.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a travel booking method of an OBT platform, comprising the following steps:

s110, acquiring form information input by a user and a group unit to which the user belongs in an OBT platform;

s120, when the group unit belongs to a preset group set, generating order creation request information according to the form information, and sending the order creation request information to a booking platform; and

and S130, the booking platform submits an order according to the order creating request information, generates order information, creates a payment form, returns the payment form to the OBT platform and books travel according to the order information.

Optionally, step S130 includes:

the booking platform creates an initial payment form after receiving the order creation request information;

after the initial payment form is established, the booking platform submits an order according to the order creation request information and modifies the initial payment form to generate a target payment form;

and the reservation platform returns the target payment form to the OBT platform.

Optionally, the reservation platform is provided with a prepaid resource pool and a postpaid resource pool corresponding to the OBT platform; the resource payment date corresponding to the resources in the prepaid resource pool is later than the resource pool entry date; the resource payment date corresponding to the resource in the postpaid resource pool is earlier than the resource pool entry date;

The step S130 includes:

after receiving the order creation request information, the reservation platform creates an initial payment form based on the prepaid resource pool and makes payment based on a first resource in the prepaid resource pool;

after the initial payment form is established, the reservation platform submits an order according to the order creation request information, modifies the initial payment form and generates a target payment form;

after the OBT platform pays for the target payment form, moving a second resource newly added in the post-payment resource pool into the prepaid resource pool; the value of the second resource is equal to the value of the first resource.

Optionally, each resource in the prepaid resource pool corresponds to a first tag group; the step S130 includes:

establishing an initial payment form based on the prepaid resource pool, and establishing a reference tag corresponding to the order creation request information;

taking a first resource corresponding to a first tag group containing the reference tag in the prepaid resource pool as a target resource;

making a payment to the initial payment form based on the target resource.

Optionally, step S130 includes:

the reservation platform creates an initial payment form based on the prepaid resource pool after receiving the order creation request information;

And paying the initial payment form based on the first resource with the latest resource payment day in the prepaid resource pool.

Optionally, step S130 includes:

and taking the first resource which corresponds to the first tag group containing the reference tag in the prepaid resource pool and has the latest resource payment day as a target resource.

Optionally, step S130 includes:

the booking platform acquires a corresponding travel service providing main body according to the order creation request information;

the booking platform acquires a preset instruction corresponding to the travel service providing main body;

and the booking platform submits the order according to the order creating request information and the preset instruction and generates order information.

The invention also provides a travel booking system of the OBT platform, which is used for realizing the travel booking method of the OBT platform, and the system comprises the following components:

the form information acquisition module is used for acquiring form information input by a user in the OBT platform and a group unit to which the user belongs;

the order creation request module generates order creation request information according to the form information and sends the order creation request information to a booking platform when the group unit belongs to a preset group set; and

and the booking platform submits the order according to the order creating request information, generates order information, creates a payment form, returns the payment form to the OBT platform and books the travel according to the order information.

The invention also provides a travel booking device of the OBT platform, which comprises:

a processor;

a memory having stored therein an executable program of the processor;

wherein the processor is configured to perform the steps of the travel reservation method of any of the above-mentioned OBT platforms via execution of the executable program.

The present invention also provides a computer readable storage medium for storing a program which, when executed by a processor, performs the steps of the travel reservation method of any of the above-mentioned OBT platforms.

Compared with the prior art, the invention has the following advantages and prominent effects:

the travel booking method, the travel booking system, the travel booking equipment and the storage medium of the OBT platform enable a travel supplier to adapt to a standard payment process of the OBT platform, facilitate the customer to book travel resources on the OBT platform, are favorable for guaranteeing the travel booking stability of the travel supplier and also guarantee the travel booking experience of a customer enterprise.

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Other features, objects and advantages of the present invention will become more apparent upon reading of the following detailed description of non-limiting embodiments thereof, with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of a travel booking method of an OBT platform according to an embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 2 is a schematic flowchart of step S130 in the travel reservation method of the OBT platform according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 3 is a schematic flowchart of step S130 in the travel reservation method of the OBT platform according to another embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 4 is a schematic flowchart of step S134 in the travel reservation method of the OBT platform according to another embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 5 is a schematic structural diagram of a travel reservation system of an OBT platform according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 6 is a schematic structural diagram of a travel reservation apparatus of an OBT platform according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 7 is a schematic structural diagram of a computer-readable storage medium according to an embodiment of the disclosure.

Detailed Description

Example embodiments will now be described more fully with reference to the accompanying drawings. Example embodiments may, however, be embodied in many different forms and should not be construed as limited to the embodiments set forth herein. Rather, these embodiments are provided so that this disclosure will be thorough and complete, and will fully convey the concept of example embodiments to those skilled in the art. The same reference numerals in the drawings denote the same or similar structures, and thus their repetitive description will be omitted.

As shown in fig. 1, an embodiment of the present invention discloses a travel booking method of an OBT platform. During specific implementation, the OBT platform can be a business travel booking platform for a client enterprise, and business travel suppliers provide business travel booking services for employees of the client enterprise by accessing the platform. If the staff of the client enterprise selects individual payment during payment, a contradiction exists between the standard payment process of the OBT platform and the standard reservation process of the business travel supplier. The present application discloses the above travel reservation method for solving this problem. The method comprises the following steps:

and S110, acquiring form information input by a user and a group unit to which the user belongs in the OBT platform. Specifically, the user is an employee who is going to go on business, and makes a travel reservation in the OBT platform. The form information is information input by the staff of the enterprise in the OBT platform and can comprise a departure place, a destination, a business trip date, a trip mode and the like. The group unit to which the user belongs may be an enterprise in which the employee is located, i.e., a corresponding client enterprise.

And S120, when the group unit belongs to a preset group set, generating order creation request information according to the form information, and sending the order creation request information to a booking platform.

Specifically, only the group units belonging to a preset group set can directly generate the order creation request information, and then submit orders and create payment forms according to the order creation request information. The group units not belonging to the preset group set can not subscribe the travel service through the process. Therefore, the reasonable order of the travel booking service of the OBT platform can be ensured, and the implementation fluency of the travel booking service of the OBT platform is favorably ensured. The preset group set includes a plurality of group units. The booking platform is the business travel supplier.

And S130, the booking platform submits an order according to the order creating request information, generates order information, creates a payment form, returns the payment form to the OBT platform and performs travel booking according to the order information. When the reservation platform is implemented specifically, the reservation platform submits the order according to the order creating request information and creates a payment form according to the order creating request information. And then the booking platform returns the payment form to the OBT platform, the OBT platform analyzes the link address of the payment form and displays the link address to the user for payment, and after the user pays successfully, the booking platform performs travel booking according to the order information.

Therefore, when the staff of the client enterprise reserves travel resources through the travel provider accessing the OBT platform, the staff can select individual payment in the payment process, the standard payment process of the OBT platform can be adapted, and the smooth reservation of the staff is ensured.

Optionally, in an embodiment, on the basis of the embodiment corresponding to fig. 1, as shown in fig. 2, step S130 includes:

s131, after receiving the order creating request information, the reservation platform creates an initial payment form.

And S132, after the initial payment form is created, the reservation platform submits an order according to the order creation request information, modifies the initial payment form and generates a target payment form.

And S133, the reservation platform returns the target payment form to the OBT platform.

In this embodiment, the payment method of the initial payment form is different from that of the target payment form, and the payment method of the initial payment form may be a preset payment method. The payment method of the target payment form can be the payment method selected by the client enterprise employee on the OBT platform. And the OBT platform sends the selected payment mode to a reservation platform, the reservation platform judges the order state, and if the order is submitted, the initial payment form is modified. Therefore, the problem of contradiction between the standard payment process of the OBT platform and the standard booking process of the business trip supplier can be solved, the business trip supplier can adapt to the standard payment process of the OBT platform, clients can book business trip resources on the OBT platform conveniently, and business trip booking stability of the business trip supplier is guaranteed.

It should be noted that the storage form of the above payment forms (including the initial payment form and the target payment form) is not limited in the present application. Table 1 below exemplarily shows a stored data table of a payment form.

Table 1 stored data table of payment form

In another embodiment of the present application, another method for travel reservation for an OBT platform is disclosed. On the basis of the corresponding embodiment of the figure 1, the reservation platform is provided with a prepaid resource pool and a postpaid resource pool corresponding to the OBT platform. And the resource payment date corresponding to the resources in the prepaid resource pool is later than the resource pool entry date. And the resource payment date corresponding to the resources in the post-paid resource pool is earlier than the resource pool entry date. Illustratively, resources in the prepaid resource pool, for example, are paid prior to order generation. Resources in the post-paid resource pool are paid after the order is generated.

In this embodiment, as shown in fig. 3, the step S130 includes:

and S134, after receiving the order creation request information, the reservation platform creates an initial payment form based on the prepaid resource pool and makes payment based on the first resource in the prepaid resource pool.

And S135, after the initial payment form is created, the reservation platform submits an order according to the order creation request information, modifies the initial payment form and generates a target payment form.

And S136, after the OBT platform pays for the target payment form, moving the newly added second resource in the post-paid resource pool into the prepaid resource pool. The value of the second resource is equal to the value of the first resource.

Step S136 may be that after the customer enterprise employee pays the target payment form on the OBT platform based on the second resource, the second resource is moved into the prepaid resource pool. Therefore, the problem of contradiction between the standard payment process of the OBT platform and the standard booking process of the business trip supplier can be solved, the business trip supplier can adapt to the standard payment process of the OBT platform, clients can book business trip resources on the OBT platform conveniently, and business trip booking stability of the business trip supplier is guaranteed.

In another embodiment of the present application, another method for travel reservation for an OBT platform is disclosed. In this embodiment, each resource in the prepaid resource pool corresponds to a first tag group. On the basis of the above embodiment corresponding to fig. 3, as shown in fig. 4, step S134 includes:

s1341, after receiving the order creating request information, the reservation platform creates an initial payment form based on the prepaid resource pool and establishes a reference label corresponding to the order creating request information.

S1342, regarding the first resource corresponding to the first tag group containing the reference tag in the prepaid resource pool as a target resource. And

s1343, paying the initial payment form based on the target resource.

Therefore, the first resource of the first label group containing the reference label corresponding to the order creation request information can be used for payment, management of the prepaid resource pool is facilitated, and management efficiency of the prepaid resource pool in the booking platform is improved while the business travel supplier can adapt to the standard payment process of the OBT platform.

In another embodiment of the present application, another method for travel booking for an OBT platform is disclosed. On the basis of the above embodiment corresponding to fig. 4, step S1342 of the method includes:

and taking the first resource which corresponds to the first label group containing the reference label in the prepaid resource pool and has the latest resource payment day as a target resource.

Therefore, the stability of the prepaid resource pool in the reservation platform is ensured while the management of the prepaid resource pool is facilitated; the method is convenient for realizing the standard payment process that business travel suppliers can adapt to the OBT platform, and simultaneously ensures the use stability of the prepaid resource pool.

In another embodiment of the present application, another method for travel booking for an OBT platform is disclosed. On the basis of the embodiment corresponding to fig. 3, step S134 of the method includes:

and the reservation platform creates an initial payment form based on the prepaid resource pool after receiving the order creation request information. And paying the initial payment form based on the first resource with the latest resource payment day in the prepaid resource pool.

In another embodiment of the present application, another method for travel reservation for an OBT platform is disclosed. On the basis of the above embodiment corresponding to fig. 1, step S130 includes:

and S137, the booking platform acquires the corresponding travel service providing main body according to the order creation request information.

S138, the booking platform acquires a preset instruction corresponding to the travel service providing main body. And

and S139, the reservation platform submits the order according to the order creation request information and the preset instruction to generate order information.

The business travel service providing main body can be a navigation driver, the preset instruction can be a client code splicing instruction, the client code and the preset instruction are spliced and contained in the order creating request information, so that the unification of large client codes and imperceptible special logic in the subsequent process after the order creating can be ensured, and the business travel service providing main body is favorable for improving the business travel booking experience of a user.

Optionally, in an embodiment, on the basis of the embodiment corresponding to fig. 1, the step S120 includes: when the booking platform judges that the form information contains a navigation department and the navigation department has a preset instruction, the order creating request information contains splicing information spliced according to the preset instruction and the navigation department code, so that the unification of large customer codes and imperceptible special logic in the subsequent process after order creating can be ensured, and the booking experience of traveling of a user can be improved. Specifically, a special pata instruction exists in a part of the navigation department, for example, a client code corresponding to a navigation department is 123, but DK needs to be added to the pata instruction of the navigation department, so that the generated waybill request information includes the splicing information DK123 corresponding to the navigation department.

Optionally, in an embodiment, when the front end polls the white list verification result, the interface adds a special logic of the airline department and returns the result together, so that the special logic of the airline department is uniformly closed, and the whole process does not sense the special logic except for ordering.

It should be noted that all the above embodiments disclosed in the present application can be freely combined, and the technical solutions obtained by combining them are also within the scope of the present application.

As shown in fig. 5, an embodiment of the present invention further discloses a travel reservation system 5 of an OBT platform, which includes:

the form information obtaining module 51 obtains the form information input by the user in the OBT platform and the group unit to which the user belongs.

And the order creating request module 52 is configured to generate order creating request information according to the form information when the group unit belongs to a preset group set, and send the order creating request information to the booking platform.

And

and an order submitting module 53, where the booking platform submits an order according to the order creating request information, generates order information, creates a payment form, returns the payment form to the OBT platform, and makes a travel booking according to the order information.

It can be understood that the travel reservation system of the OBT platform of the present invention further includes other existing functional modules that support the operation of the travel reservation system of the OBT platform. The travel reservation system of the OBT platform shown in fig. 5 is only an example, and should not bring any limitation to the function and the scope of use of the embodiment of the present invention.

The travel booking system of the OBT platform in this embodiment is used to implement the travel booking method of the OBT platform, and therefore, for the specific implementation steps of the travel booking system of the OBT platform, reference may be made to the description of the travel booking method of the OBT platform, which is not described herein again.

The embodiment of the invention also discloses travel reservation equipment of the OBT platform, which comprises a processor and a memory, wherein the memory stores an executable program of the processor; the processor is configured to perform the steps in the travel booking method of the above-described OBT platform via execution of the executable program. Fig. 6 is a schematic structural diagram of the travel reservation equipment of the OBT platform disclosed by the invention. An electronic device 600 according to this embodiment of the invention is described below with reference to fig. 6. The electronic device 600 shown in fig. 6 is only an example, and should not bring any limitation to the functions and the scope of use of the embodiments of the present invention.

As shown in fig. 6, the electronic device 600 is embodied in the form of a general purpose computing device. The components of the electronic device 600 may include, but are not limited to: at least one processing unit 610, at least one memory unit 620, a bus 630 connecting the different platform components (including the memory unit 620 and the processing unit 610), a display unit 640, etc.

Where the memory unit stores program code that may be executed by processing unit 610 to cause processing unit 610 to perform steps according to various exemplary embodiments of the present invention as described in the travel booking method section of the above-described OBT platform of the present specification. For example, processing unit 610 may perform the steps as shown in fig. 1.

The storage unit 620 may include readable media in the form of volatile storage units, such as a random access memory unit (RAM)6201 and/or a cache storage unit 6202, and may further include a read-only memory unit (ROM) 6203.

The memory unit 620 may also include programs/utilities 6204 having a set (at least one) of program modules 6205, such program modules 6205 including, but not limited to: an operating system, one or more application programs, other program modules, and program data, each of which, or some combination thereof, may comprise an implementation of a network environment.

Bus 630 may be one or more of several types of bus structures, including a memory unit bus or memory unit controller, a peripheral bus, an accelerated graphics port, a processing unit, or a local bus using any of a variety of bus architectures.

The electronic device 600 may also communicate with one or more external devices 700 (e.g., keyboard, pointing device, bluetooth device, etc.), with one or more devices that enable a user to interact with the electronic device 600, and/or with any devices (e.g., router, modem, etc.) that enable the electronic device 600 to communicate with one or more other computing devices. Such communication may occur via input/output (I/O) interface 650. Also, the electronic device 600 may communicate with one or more networks (e.g., a Local Area Network (LAN), a Wide Area Network (WAN), and/or a public network such as the Internet) via the network adapter 660. The network adapter 660 may communicate with the other modules of the electronic device 600 via the bus 630. It should be understood that although not shown in the figures, other hardware and/or software modules may be used in conjunction with the electronic device 600, including but not limited to: microcode, device drivers, redundant processing units, external disk drive arrays, RAID systems, tape drives, and data backup storage platforms, to name a few.

The invention also discloses a computer readable storage medium for storing a program, which when executed implements the steps in the travel booking method of the OBT platform. In some possible embodiments, the various aspects of the invention may also be implemented in the form of a program product comprising program code for causing a terminal device to perform the steps according to various exemplary embodiments of the invention described in the method for booking business trips of an OBT platform described above in this specification, when the program product is run on the terminal device.

As described above, the program of the computer-readable storage medium of this embodiment, when executed, enables the business trip supplier to adapt to the standard payment process of the OBT platform, and pay the order in advance by using the resource of the prepaid resource pool, thereby ensuring smooth implementation of order submission, facilitating the customer to reserve business trip resources on the OBT platform, being beneficial to ensuring the stability of business trip reservation of the business trip supplier, and ensuring the business trip reservation experience of the customer.

Fig. 7 is a schematic structural diagram of a computer-readable storage medium of the present invention. Referring to fig. 7, a program product 800 for implementing the above method according to an embodiment of the present invention is described, which may employ a portable compact disc read only memory (CD-ROM) and include program code, and may be run on a terminal device, such as a personal computer. However, the program product of the present invention is not limited in this regard and, in the present document, a readable storage medium may be any tangible medium that can contain, or store a program for use by or in connection with an instruction execution system, apparatus, or device.

The program product may employ any combination of one or more readable media. The readable medium may be a readable signal medium or a readable storage medium. A readable storage medium may be, for example, but not limited to, an electronic, magnetic, optical, electromagnetic, infrared, or semiconductor system, apparatus, or device, or any combination of the foregoing. More specific examples (a non-exhaustive list) of the readable storage medium include: an electrical connection having one or more wires, a portable disk, a hard disk, a Random Access Memory (RAM), a read-only memory (ROM), an erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM or flash memory), an optical fiber, a portable compact disc read-only memory (CD-ROM), an optical storage device, a magnetic storage device, or any suitable combination of the foregoing.

A computer readable storage medium may include a propagated data signal with readable program code embodied therein, for example, in baseband or as part of a carrier wave. Such a propagated data signal may take any of a variety of forms, including, but not limited to, electro-magnetic, optical, or any suitable combination thereof. A readable storage medium may also be any readable medium that is not a readable storage medium and that can communicate, propagate, or transport a program for use by or in connection with an instruction execution system, apparatus, or device. Program code embodied on a readable storage medium may be transmitted using any appropriate medium, including but not limited to wireless, wireline, optical fiber cable, RF, etc., or any suitable combination of the foregoing.

Program code for carrying out operations for aspects of the present invention may be written in any combination of one or more programming languages, including an object oriented programming language such as Java, C + + or the like and conventional procedural programming languages, such as the "C" programming language or similar programming languages. The program code may execute entirely on the user's computing device, partly on the user's device, as a stand-alone software package, partly on the user's computing device and partly on a remote computing device, or entirely on the remote computing device or server. In the case of a remote computing device, the remote computing device may be connected to the user computing device through any kind of network, including a Local Area Network (LAN) or a Wide Area Network (WAN), or may be connected to an external computing device (e.g., through the internet using an internet service provider).

The travel booking method, the system, the equipment and the storage medium of the OBT platform provided by the embodiment of the invention enable a travel supplier to adapt to a standard payment process of the OBT platform, and pay an order in advance by utilizing the resources of a prepaid resource pool, thereby ensuring the smooth implementation of order submission, facilitating the reservation of travel resources on the OBT platform by a client, being beneficial to ensuring the stability of travel booking of the travel supplier and ensuring the travel booking experience of a client enterprise.

The foregoing is a further detailed description of the invention in connection with specific preferred embodiments and it is not intended to limit the invention to the specific embodiments described. For those skilled in the art to which the invention pertains, several simple deductions or substitutions can be made without departing from the spirit of the invention, and all shall be considered as belonging to the protection scope of the invention.

Claims

1. A travel booking method of an OBT platform is characterized by comprising the following steps:

s110, acquiring form information input by a user and a group unit to which the user belongs in the OBT platform;

And S130, the reservation platform submits orders according to the order creating request information, generates order information, creates a payment form, returns the payment form to the OBT platform and makes travel reservation according to the order information.

2. The travel reservation method of the OBT platform of claim 1, wherein step S130 comprises:

3. The travel reservation method of the OBT platform according to claim 1, wherein the reservation platform is provided with a prepaid resource pool and a postpaid resource pool corresponding to the OBT platform; the resource payment date corresponding to the resources in the prepaid resource pool is later than the resource pool entry date; the resource payment date corresponding to the resource in the postpaid resource pool is earlier than the resource pool entry date;

the step S130 includes:

after the OBT platform pays for the target payment form, moving a second resource newly added in the post-paid resource pool into the prepaid resource pool; the value of the second resource is equal to the value of the first resource.

4. The travel reservation method of the OBT platform according to claim 3, wherein each resource in the prepaid resource pool corresponds to a first tag group; the step S130 includes:

making a payment to the initial payment form based on the target resource.

5. The travel reservation method of the OBT platform of claim 3, wherein step S130 comprises:

6. The travel booking method of the OBT platform as claimed in claim 4, wherein step S130 comprises:

7. The travel reservation method of the OBT platform of claim 1, wherein step S130 comprises:

the reservation platform acquires a corresponding travel service providing main body according to the order creating request information;

8. An on-board terminal (OBT) platform travel reservation system for implementing the OBT platform travel reservation method according to claim 1, the system comprising:

And the reservation platform submits an order according to the order creating request information, generates order information, creates a payment form, returns the payment form to the OBT platform and makes travel reservation according to the order information.

9. An OBT platform travel reservation apparatus, comprising:

a processor;

a memory in which an executable program of the processor is stored;

wherein the processor is configured to perform the steps of the travel reservation method of the OBT platform of any of claims 1 to 7 via execution of the executable program.

10. A computer readable storage medium storing a program which when executed by a processor performs the steps of the travel reservation method of the OBT platform of any of claims 1 to 7.