Patent ID: 8364507

Claim:
A method for establishing a reservation directly into a hotel Property Management System comprising: providing a primary reservation management system web server interfaced through a direct pathway to a hotel Property Management System via terminal emulation, the direct pathway excluding a Global Distribution System or a Central Reservation System; providing three or more clone reservation sites to the primary reservation management system web server, each clone reservation site having a user interface tailored for use by a booking party type selected from the group consisting of a wholesale booking party, an agent booking party, and a direct customer party; periodically synchronizing clone inventory databases of the clone reservation sites with an inventory database of the primary reservation management system web server; responsive to a booking party attempting to book a reservation on the primary reservation management system web server, redirecting the booking party to one of the clone reservation sites according to a type of booking party associated with the attempting booking party, wherein the redirection comprises a redirecting from a primary domain to a clone subdomain; via the tailored user interface on the clone reservation site collecting from the booking party a reservation data set including itinerary and preferences for a customer; establishing a reservation in the hotel Property Management System according to the reservation data set if a matching service or product is available according to a hotel Property Management System inventory database, the reservation being associated with a customer profile; determining a revenue value or a discount value to be compensated to the booking party according to the booking party type; and recording the revenue value or discount value in a revenue pool for the booking party.