Mahindra Holidays launches homestay holiday site

[dwarakesh]

IDS Software's hospitality technology has helped Mahindra Holidays to launch www.mahindrahomestays.com, India's first online information and reservation portal for the homestay sector.

The portal offers an online and multi-currency payment gateway, offering real-time and online reservation, and easing financial interactions for tourists around the globe. IDS has offered services in the segments of back-end support (Central Reservation System) and Real-time web booking engine. Technologies like Microsoft ASP.net (the framework) and Back-end Central Reservation System on Visual Basic with an MS SQL Server as RDBMS have been used for the construction of the portal.

Ramesh Ramanathan, CEO of Mahindra Holidays said, 'Mahindra homestays is a business venture developed on to operate entirely on an electronic platform. IDS, in a short space of time, have done an excellent job putting in place the vital front end web interface and online reservation system.'

Rajesh P Yadav, General Manager of IDS said, 'We were only happy to provide our expertise to this emerging concept in the Indian hospitality arena. This project has been another feather in our cap, given, that this required concept and innovative technology to be developed in a very short span of time. It gives us pleasure in assisting the Mahindras in this venture.'