Featured Highlight
Booking-Partners |
AXSES helping you excel
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arcRes e-commerce network
tops 88 million dollars in inquiries for direct
business to Barbados |
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Rostrevor
Hotel Rewarded |
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 Congratulations
on the pro-active use of AXSES technology go to
Robyn Gollop-Knight, General Manager and Jennifer
Howard, Reservations Supervisor of Rostrevor Hotel.
Rostrevor Hotel has been with AXSES since 1998
and has successfully used arcRes from its inception
in 2000. They have now jumped on to the new AXSES
Booking-Partners program and already invited another
partner to join them. Good initiative! http://barbados.org/barbados-booking-partners.htm
As their reward Rostrevor has received the "Book
and Save!" widget. http://rostrevorbarbados.com/rates_bookings1.htm
The "Book and Save" widget can be installed on
the hotel site. This allows visitors to quickly
browse the partner discounts.
Jennifer says: "At Rostrevor we definitely
see the benefits of being part of ArcRes. You
have the choice of all the various packages offered
to suit your property. The site is very user friendly
and you have the benefits of enhancing and updating
the site on your own. The support staff is very
qualified and knowledgeable and is always willing
to assist. You are always kept up to date with
any new enhancements and features that would benefit
your site. We encourage everyone to be part of
ArcRes distribution in getting your product and
services out there."
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arcRes Booking-Partners |
 The
arcRes Booking-Partners module allows hotels
to partner with activities, car rentals and
other tourism operators to offer discounted
rates when booking directly online. The Book
and Save widget (seen here) allows travelers
to view partners, get quotes and book holiday
activities.
This is a good way for a destination to cross-sell
their tourism product. Hotels choose partners
at agreed special rates and commission. At the
end of the booking process the partner is displayed
and may be booked. Partner bookings are tracked
back to the selling property.
The benefit to the hotel is that the partner
discounts serve as another reason for the visitor
to choose their property and to encourage direct
(i.e. commission-free) business. The activity
benefits as it receives both additional marketing
through each partner hotel, and increased direct
bookings.
The visitor enjoys overall savings and the convenience
of using one booking engine. This Booking-Partners
program will be promoted throughout Barbados.org
and other channels, Barbados.org news, Press
Releases, Facebook and Twitter. It's also linked
on http://Barbados.org
home page under "Travel Specials" at right.
This will showcase those hotels that are partnering
with activities, car rentals and other tourism
operators. The Partners will, of course, get
branding exposure AND the possibility of bookings
from arcRes for these hotels.
Note: To use the above both the hotel and
the activity must be using Axses arcRes booking
engine. arcRes is not available for all activities.
Contact your sales representative to see if
this can work for you! To know more about what
arcRes does for you click here: http://arcres.com/ecommerce-and-travel-marketing.cfm
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Kathy-Lynn of AXSES wins Tourism Award |
 We
are delighted to congratulate our own Kathy-Lynn
Ward for winning the Award of Excellence - Tourism
Services at the Barbados Tourism Awards Ceremony.
Some of Kathy-Lynn's achievements are:
- Put Barbados Businesses on the Google Satellite
Map
Giving these businesses the ability to receive
DIRECT bookings. This system also allows guests
to find a wealth of information on Barbados'
culture, heritage and activities - in fact over
300 points of interest- by clicking directly
on the Google Map. http://barbados.org/maps.htm
- Made Direct Bookings possible on Facebook
This initiative has raised excitement among
Barbados Tourism operators as they can now use
their Facebook pages to communicate comfortably
with potential visitors and receive DIRECT bookings.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dover-Beach-Hotel/56083912099
- Developed arcRes together with Ian Clayton
arcRes is unique in its simplicity of use and
well suited to tourism operators in the Caribbean.
arcRes is much more than a booking engine. It
is also a marketing tool allowing the tourism
operator to capture the interest of the potential
visitor while they are still researching Destinations.
arcRes also powers the majority of our tourism
websites and marketing channels.
- Guided Barbados.org through its many upgrades
and enhancements to keep it leading edge.
- Created and developed Bookable-ads
Traditional advertising spots on Barbados.org
and other marketing channels were turned into
bookable entities.
- 12 years of diligence and devotion to the
tourism industry
This cannot all be described in full. However
it can be measured by the increased revenue
to the tourism operations through internet bookings.
Our arcRes bookings engine and marketing suites
created US 90 million in requests to Barbados
operators in 2008.
- Constant vigilance and assistance (along
with the whole AXSES team) given to the businesses
on the island
This makes Barbados the leader for tourism operators
in the Caribbean who understand how to market
their business on the internet.
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Contact
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Contact your AXSES Consultant:
Janelle Knight - jknight (at) axses.net
Kayelyne Burgess - kburgess (at) axses.net
Or call 1-246 429 2653
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