RTRI REPORT January 1999

Electronic Commerce in Travel Businesses

Kiyotaka SEKI, Syouko SUZUKI


  In this paper, we discuss the possibility of Electronic Commerce (EC) in travel businesses focusing on the trade between travel agencies and travel product suppliers. We first describe an overview of EC and Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), and then an experimental project and system developed for the project. This project was performed to study the feasibility of applying EDI to travel businesses. Finally, we summarize the results of the experiment and show a model of EC for travel businesses derived from this study.



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