Tourist information centers spend a lot of their time calling hotels to check for availability. Also, many smaller hotels suffer from not being able to advertise their availability to tourist information centers.  The Aptos Chamber of Commerce, a tourist information center in Santa Cruz County, currently has no automated system for managing information about hotel availability and must call each hotel individually. They would like a more efficient system to route tourists to local hotels with availability while saving valuable time that could be invested in other community services.