Publicly inviting system for group tour

• US 20020087367A1
• Filed: 12/28/2001
• Published: 07/04/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 12/28/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Azani, Takeshi
• Application Number:
  US10/029,169
• Publication Number:
  US 20020087367A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/5
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/02 Reservations, e.g. for tickets, services or events
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions

Abstract

In a system for publicly inviting a group tour, each tour desiring person registers a desired tour destination or a desired tour plan on a home page opened on an internet site. An administrator of the group tour inviting system groups the tour desiring persons who desire for the same tour destination, to organize a temporary group tour community, or produces an arranged tour plan from a plurality of desired tour plans registered on the home page, to organize a temporary community for a group tour on the basis of the arranged tour plan. A travel agent undertakes the group tour of the same tour destination or the arranged tour plan.

Claims

1. A group tour inviting system for publicly inviting a group tour, comprising a process in which each tour desiring person registers a desired tour destination on an internet site, a process in which, persons, who are registered on the internet site and desire for the same tour destination, are grouped to organize a temporary community for a group tour, and a process in which a travel agent undertakes the group tour.

2. A group tour inviting system, claimed in claim 1, wherein each person who registers said desired tour destination on said internet site, pays a predetermined registration fee to an administrator of the group tour inviting system.

3. A group tour inviting system, claimed in claim 1, wherein each travel agent, who offers the undertaking of the group tour of the same tour destination, pays a predetermined registration fee to an administrator of the group tour inviting system.

4. A group tour inviting system, claimed in claim 1, wherein when the group tour community has actually toured in group, the entrants of said group tour and/or the travel agent who performed said group tour pays a predetermined contingent fee to an administrator of the group tour inviting system.

5. A group tour inviting system, claimed in claim 1, wherein when an agreement for the group tour is reached on the internet between tour entrants of the group tour and the travel agent, the travel agent gives a privilege of a group tour reduction of the tour expense including a fare and a hotel charge, to the tour entrants of the group tour.

6. A group tour inviting system for publicly inviting a group tour, comprising a process in which each tour desiring person registers a desired tour plan on an internet site, a process in which a plurality of desired tour plans registered on the internet site are arranged to produce an arranged tour plan, a process in which a temporary community for a group tour on the basis of the arranged tour plan is organized, and a process in which a travel agent undertakes the group tour.

7. A group tour inviting system, claimed in claim 6 wherein the desired tour plan registered by each tour desiring person includes a portion or all of requirements which are desired by the tour desiring person and which include a tour destination, a tour route, a lodging place, a tour period, a tour schedule, the generation of a tour entrant, the hobby of a tour entrant, the purpose of a tour, a traffic means, and the number of tourists.

8. A group tour inviting system, claimed in claim 6, wherein the arranged tour plan is obtained by deriving a tour plan of a greatest common divisor type from the plurality of desired tour plans registered on the internet site.

9. A group tour inviting system, claimed in claim 6, wherein each person who registers said desired tour plan on said internet site, pays a predetermined registration fee to an administrator of the group tour inviting system.

10. A group tour inviting system, claimed in claim 6, wherein each travel agent, who offers the undertaking for the arranged group tour, pays a predetermined registration fee to an administrator of the group tour inviting system.

11. A group tour inviting system, claimed in claim 6, wherein when the group tour community has actually toured in group, the entrants of said group tour and/or the travel agent who performed said group tour pays a predetermined contingent fee to an administrator of the group tour inviting system.

12. A group tour inviting system, claimed in claim 6, wherein when an agreement for the group tour is reached on the internet between tour entrants of the group tour and the travel agent, the travel agent gives a privilege of a group tour reduction of the tour expense including a fare and a hotel charge, to the tour entrants of the group tour.