So we’re going to assume you have landed here because you’ve somehow heard the term “hotel booking engine“, and you’re not sure exactly how they work or most specifically, how it would work for your small hotel or resort.
[Read more…]A hotel website’s booking engine is the software application being used to secure online reservations with that ever present Book Now button..
The Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism in collaboration with key tourism stakeholders, convened the inaugural Fijian Tourism Talanoa (FTT) event on Friday, 17 November 2017.
I was invited to be a presenter/panelist for Session 3: Making Tourism Sustainable. This session focused on renewable energy, forest and marine protection and sustainable tourism. Expected outcomes from this session were to garner greater support for addressing challenges to the sustainable development of the tourism sector. [Read more…]
Great article from Siteminder the Channel Manager Company, about the new trends in tech that we should all pay attention to…
In mid 2014, Resort Support was contracted to develop a paper to complete an Economic Valuation of Tourism and Fisheries in the Vatu-i-Ra Seascape, Fiji.
So what exactly is this “due diligence” we’ve all been twittering on about when we talk about buying a scuba diving business? Seems very uptight and accountant-speak to most of us and about as interesting as my Auntie Mildred’s boil on her…, yes well you get the idea…
Simply put, performing due diligence means taking an extremely good scrutinizing look at the business to see if it holds muster and actually IS what it claimed to be before you made the offer. The basic translation is:
“Has the Seller told the truth in regards to how big the business is and how much money they make, or have they told porkie-pies in the MoS or Financial Highlights” [Read more…]
So we spend a fair amount of time with our SME clients, most of whom are small hotel and resort owners and mangers, trying to explain simply what all the industry jargon is around the online travel selling world. So lets see if we can run through this with a couple of diagrams, and some […]
