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AXSES helping you excel
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St
Lucia Marketing
Helping you Excel
building
supplier centered, supply chain solutions, for direct
travel marketing and global distribution
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arcRes
Booking-Partners Launched |
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arcRes Booking-Partners module allows hotels to
partner with activities, car rentals and other
tourism operators to offer discounted rates when
booking directly online.
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 on our network channels,
travelwatchnews, BookingsStlucia.com news, Press
Releases, Facebook, Twitter and Social Media.
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 learn more about what arcRes
does for you click here: http://arcres.com/ecommerce-and-travel-marketing.cfm
The Book and save widget (optional extra) is
not deployed for St. Lucia.
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Social
Media Boosts SEO for Poinsettia |
 Our
BookingsStlucia.com Team scored a big success
using Social media to boost Search Engine ranking
for Poinsettia Apartments.
About
a year ago, Poinsettia
was re-branded to reflect its Villa and Townhouse
style resort settings. It's not a conventional
apartment block. All units have their own entrance
and many have both a front and back door with
a garden patio. The re-branding got Poinsettia
listed under many search results such as "St.
Lucia Villa apartments".
Early
this week we noted that a search on Google for
"St. Lucia long term reantals" and
"apartment rentals St. Lucia" was
not showing Poinsettia in the first page. It
normally takes 6 months or more for Search Engine
Optimization (SEO) to take hold, but we wanted
immediate results. The AXSES Team got into action
and within a few days Poinsettia was on the
first page of Google.
Impressed?
You should be - we are. Learn how this was achieved
on our
travel technology blog. For more about SEO
see our resource page all
about Search Engine keywords and tags. There
is more to it of course but this is a good start
to understanding a complex issue.
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Free Seminar: Direct Internet Marketing |
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Come
and see exactly what arcRes Booking-Engine and
BookingsStlucia.com are doing for hotels and tourism
operators in St. Lucia. AXSES arcRes marketing
has generated more that $7 million US in Direct
booking requests to St. Lucia tourism supplier
for January 2009 to July 2009.
Direct Business Means: No commission and
No transaction fees, just a very nominal subscription
with a high ROI.
Join us at the Bay Gardens Hotel - Begonia
Conference Room
August 19 2009 at 6:30 pm
RSVP to keitha
(at) bookingsstlucia.com or call .485.4020
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Make
arcRes & BookingsStlucia.com work for you |
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