This paper presents TravelEase, a comprehensive full-stack MERN travel booking platform integrating accommodation booking, vehicle rental, healthcare services, insurance management, loyalty programs, and commercial transactions within a unified ecosystem. The platform employs JWT-based authentication, role-based access control, Stripe payment integration, and real-time communication using Socket.io. Built with React, Node.js, Express, and MongoDB, TravelEase provides scalable and secure services with support for medical assistance, insurance claims, chatbot interactions, and multilingual capabilities. Experimental evaluation demonstrates efficient performance and validates the platform as a reproducible engineering artifact for travel technology research.
Karan Ankade (Tue,) studied this question.