Bookings St.lucia reservation center and travel planner. Full travel guide - directory of all hotels, apartments, accommodation and activities
See also https://roguesinparadise.com/st-lucia-the-island-its-culture-and-attractions/
Presentation by AXSES Partner - Glace Grafix
3. bookingsstlucia.com Who We Are Unique Travel Platform (Services/Technology) made for Caribbean tourism by Caribbean professionals 12 years building technology for Caribbean tourism Providing technology and know-how. A proven record of success in building travel technology for Caribbean destinations and suppliers. Knowledge Engineering ST. LUCIA Application Development - Marketing - Management Marketing Partners for Saint Lucia: GlaceGrafix, LLC and Advanced Intellectual Methods, Inc.
4. bookingsstlucia.com Who We Are The Internet is about being Direct! It is the most efficient marketing and distribution medium ever Made for Direct Business Direct Sales | Your Brand | Your Technology | Your Control
14. bookingsstlucia.com arcRes Bookings-Expert Set minimum stay requirements, special rates, packages, group rates and loyalty programs to improve your travel marketing and revenue. Make it easy for guest to get holiday quotes, book their flights directly online, shop by theme, upsell, upgrade and add-on extras while you reduce cost of sales and service. Market complete vacations with activities, add specials in low periods. Improve control of your travel business and inventory across multiple channels. Integrates with your website to manage rates and accommodation content instantly with easy online options. Integrates with Niche Market Channels and Global Distribution Systems (GDS) for effective marketing and efficiency.
16. bookingsstlucia.com Specials/Promotions Specials for all: Easy as arcRes. Many St. Lucia operators are already using AXSES arcRes e-commerce engine and marketing suites in some form or the other. arcRes users can build a special in minutes. The special can be a simple advertisement or it can be booked on line. With arcRes e-specials users can get instant quotes. Once created, arcRes specials are displayed on hundreds of international websites including AXSES own http://www.CaribRez.com network of over 30 Caribbean Sites. And, as always, the business goes directly to St. Lucia operators (no commissions and no transaction fees) resulting in more money in the operator’s pockets.
18. bookingsstlucia.com Social Media Distribution Google Base | RSS Feeds | Facebook | MySpace YouTube | Twitter | Delicious Specials are syndicated internationally and can be added to anyone's RSS reader of choice. These specials are automatically displayed on any site that subscribes to our feeds. There are hundreds of RSS networks and thousands of sites that might subscribe. The specials are also displayed on travelers myGoogle pages and are e-mailed directly to subscribing travelers. It's a massive network that works for everyone who creates an arcRes special. Facebook 157 million users - see BookingsStLucia.com page see also St. Lucia group - St. Lucia Gallery - Much more is in the works!
24. bookingsstlucia.com Collaborative Destination Marketing AXSES Booking-Partners.com, launched in July 2009, is helping destinations market themselves. Now hotels and other Tourism Operators such as car rentals, tour companies and tourism activities collaborate in marketing each other. Most activity operators work with hotel concierges after the guest has arrived. This does not showcase the product and make it an integral part of the incentive to visit. Booking-partners.com automates the entire process giving the traveler a fun and useful shopping experience and enhancing the destinations marketing effort. Activities marketing cost are reduced by avoiding wholesalers and overseas payment, foreign exchange and administration. More money stays in the destination and the traveler gets a better deal as savings are passed along to them at the time of purchase.
25. bookingsstlucia.com Collaborative Destination Marketing (Continued) How it Works: When you assign a supplier as a partner, the supplier's information automatically appears at the end of the arcRes booking process as demonstrated on the right. Your customer can choose to click on the supplier link to receive the special discount offered by your partner. (See sample of how the booking partner special would appear at the end of a user’s booking session)
27. bookingsstlucia.com Flight Bookings Now Available from Your Booking Engine Your customer can choose to select to book their travel after completing their online accommodations purchase on your site. It functions like any regular online travel site and the user makes his purchase on a secure server. Current owners of the arcRes Booking Engine will have this feature turned on for them this week or they can simply log into their control panel and select that option.
31. bookingsstlucia.com Costs & Savings How much money can you actually save by using this system? Case Study results for Hotel X that started using the arcRes Bookings-Expert December 2008 to May 2009. Revenue generated from direct bookings off your website only (does not include sales that were converted from users asking for Quotes or showing Interests or any other marketing channel): $118,287.80 USD Revenue that the same sales would have generated using 3 rd Party Booking Engine given 15% off Rack Rates: $100,544.63 USD Cost/Investment in System: $375.00 USD (Includes set up and training of Booking Engine and 1 Ad Special for the year) ROI: $17,743.17 USD ($47,906.56 XCD over a 6 month period)