Central Hotel Reservation System (CHORES) is a computerized multi-user system which was first introduced at the Central Reservation Office (CRO) in the Himachal Pradesh Tourism Development Corporation (HPTDC) Headquarters, Shimla, in February, 1993. CHORES minimizes the delays in confirming bookings irrespective of the place of location of the hotel for which the reservation is required. The System maintains a centralized database which contains information related to all the hotels of HPTDC along with availability status. All requests for reservation from Tourist Information Offices (TIOs) and Travel Agents are (TAs) received at CRO where bookings can be made for any of the hotels, for any date and period. This can be done without referring the request to the individual hotel. On receipt of a request, the central database is searched for availability of accommodation. If available, accommodation is either booked or blocked, and the individual/TIO/TA is intimated on-line. The status is then updated accordingly. At the end of the day, a reservation chart showing bookings made, availability position and expected arrivals is sent to the hotel concerned. CHORES has been developed in FOXBase under Xenix environment and is operational on PC-386 systems. NICNET is proposed to be utilized for communication between the TIOs, TAs, CRO and hotels.