We need a script that works for each of the following hotel reservation websites ( 33 in total) and allows us to send the user to a a specific hotel/date deep link in the destination website. Main task: A. The script should receive an input from our server in the form: Check in date | Check out date | Hotel Name | City | State | Country | No. of rooms | No. of adults | No. of children | Type of window opening Sample: 12/20/09 | 12/25/09 | Beverly Hilton | Beverly Hills | California | United States | 1 | 2 | 0| New Tab B. Identify the hotel name as including a highlighted keyword (in this case: 'Hilton') and direct the search to www.hilton.com (following the vocabulary in the hotel websites file attached) C. Then produce this request in the Hilton.com website, so that the user would land in the 'Beverly Hilton' page on the site with the original request included. A sample search and request result is presented in the image file (the 2nd part is the ‘deep link' page). Support tasks: 1. The script should be developed in .Net and preferably be written in C# 2. The code must be open and include a detailed documentation within the code and 3. The documentation should include estimation for response time on each of the sites, and be able to acknowledge when a request results in a failure (so that we can correct the instructed input). Clarifications: - In some of the sites we included an affiliate URL – this should be used in the search command, and we should be able to replace every vanity URL to an affiliate URL as we will gain some of these in the future. - In some sites the request should only yield a ‘city search' – the column city/hotel is marked as ‘city' in these cases. If a city/brand option is highlighted, several brands are kept under one URL and we should be able to search only for the requested brands (there is a selection menu in the sites advanced search option) - In column H there is a sample list of hotels or cities for each website. Please run a sample on each of the sites in order to identify potential problems. We may be willing to exclude some sites or reduce the demand (such as making a ‘hotel search' to ‘city search'), but you need to identify that already in your offer so we could consider the change.

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