INTRODUCTION

This is a Database Management System for implementing a general TRAVEL AGENCY implemented using MySQL software. A travel agency is a private retailer or public service that provides tourism related services to the public on behalf of suppliers such

as airlines, car rentals, cruise lines, hotels, railways, and package tours. In addition to dealing with ordinary tourists most travel agencies have a separate department devoted to making travel arrangements for business travelers and some travel agencies specialize in commercial and business travel only. This project deals with development of a convenient and userfriendly general-purpose travel management system.

PURPOSE
The project aims at developing a travel agency system that stores and manages all the details and requirements of the customers like age, number of passengers, availability of seats, travel routes ,dates of travel, pickup point, destination and arrival times etc . The project is primarily meant to facilitate the ease of booking travel tickets and ensure their convenience through online transactions. The database access is made easier by providing a front end, implemented by Visual Basic 6.0 so that data access and manipulation is made easier to the end user.

SCOPE

There are two approaches of travel agencies. One is the traditional, multi-destination, outbound travel agency, based in the originating location of the traveler and the other is the destination focused, in-bound travel agency, that is based in the destination and delivers an expertise on that location. At present, the former is usually a larger operator like Thomas Cook, while the latter is often a smaller, independent operator. In this project we deal with the second method, that is the destination focused method. The features of this project includes checking the availability of seats, travel routes, online reservation , advanced hotel booking etc.

The scope is limited to reservation and manipulation. Manipulation includes editing the constraints like date, time and cancellation of a previously booked ticket. There are two kinds of users, an admin and a client. The admin is the travel agent who receives the request from the customers and issues a specific ticket matching their requirements. The client is the customer.

We use MySQL Database Management System in implementing this project. It is the world's most used open source relational database management system (RDBMS) as of 2008 that runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases. MySQL is a relational database management system (RDBMS), and ships with no GUI tools to administer MySQL databases or manage data contained within the databases. Users may use the included command line tools, or use MySQL "front-ends", desktop software and web applications that create and manage MySQL databases, build database structures, back up data, inspect status, and work with data records .