Department of Revenue to identify the Tax evaders by Identifying the Occupancy rates.
To get the daily occupancy rate of the lodging facilities.
To validate the occupancy of the lodging facilities throughout the state daily.
Cross-check whether the taxes paid as per the occupancy rate are the same as the bookings made across online platforms.
Monthly report creation for audit purposes.
Challenges
A fully automated approach was required to find out the occupancy rate of the lodging facilities.
The data on occupancy was required to be aggregated from 10+ third-party websites periodically (roughly 4 times a day).
Site-specific bots were required to crawl multiple websites.
Our Solution
A TOT (Transient Occupancy Tracker) platform was built to periodically monitor the transient lodging information from sites.
We deployed Mobito, a proprietary web-crawler platform to crawl and aggregate this data.
The data extraction from multiple websites is done with the help of multiple site-specific bots.
Using the web change monitoring bot the daily changes in the online sites are monitored and the daily occupancy is calculated.
Once the data is collected and the details of the present and the past day are found, the occupancy details are stored in the form of pdf/CSV/HTML.
TOT system helps users configure periodic reports (daily/weekly/fortnightly/monthly/quarterly) on transient occupancy for the state/regions for delivery to the user’s secure email or to secure channels (SFTP/dropbox).
