Abstract: There is disclosed a system for making reservations, in which the system includes a central on-line reservation provider through which reservations for one or more individual service providers may be made, one or more individual service providers through which reservations for the respective individual service providers may be made directly, and means for communicating between the central reservation provider and the respective individual service providers, wherein a first portion of the available reservations from each individual service provider are held by the central reservation provider and a second portion of the available reservations from each individual service provider are held by each respective individual service provider and, if a reservation requested from either the central reservation provider or an individual service provider is not available from that provider, available reservations are transferred from the other of the central reservation provider or the individual service provider to the