Websites for Destination Management Organisations

Our flexible Destination Management Software allows Tourism Organisations, Destination Management Organisations and Private Portals to be able to benefit from the increased use of the internet for finding and making travel bookings.

Benefits to DMOs

• Our system provides Destination Management Organisations worldwide with the tools to be able to manage and distribute their data across national and international distribution channels.
• Taking experience from the highly commericial world of outbound Tourism, we have proven our ability to significantly increase conversion rates and measure those increases effectively.
• Your marketing department is able to control the campaigns that they run, measure the results and act on them.
• Onsite member advertising can be set up, monitored and the site monitised with ease.
• Integration with social networks helps to spread any interesting promotions, articles or product in the sytem.
• Advanced cross linking of articles, promotions and product means that with only a few clicks, a news story can be linked to product, or a banner can be activated to react to keywords or categories held in the system. This makes the management of the site much less time consuming, giving you time to measure the results.
• You have control of the site - add pages, articles, manage members, products, locations, users.
• No more problems with images - the system takes any size of image and the template will convert and crop the image to size according to the requirements. A central database of media can be linked to locations, attractions, accommodation and articles.

Please talk to us about your requirements or use our contact form so we can call you back.

Breakdown of the system

The system is built on a hardened version of the latest CMS from Joomla, the worlds most popular content management system, which is said to be powering 2.7% of the entire internet. It is being used by private individuals, large corporates, right up to government departments. It is chosen for it's flexibility in architecture, accessibility and security, and the latest version is another huge leap forwards in architecture enabling us to produce enterprise level solutions at a price that will please budget holders.

The CMS deals with the content and layout of the site, the menu systems, the editing and the security. We can then install our components:

• Locations - the core component, which allows you to set up locations in the database, assign images and other data against those locations. You can categorise them and keyword them. It also includes the search component, which gives you the ability to search through the locations on the front end. Dynamic Mapping is included.
• Tours - a lighter version of TravelZen, our component for tour operators, this add on allows tours with itineraries to be built in the system. It integrates seamlessly with the other components and the CMS as a whole so that you can package up your accommodation, locations and activities into a tour.
• Accommodation - either entered into our simple to use back end system, or fed in from elsewhere, the accommodation component allows accommodation to be categorised and searched on the site.
• Attractions - this is an extension to the locations component which allows you to set up, categorise and search attactions in the CMS. Opening times, location, prices etc are stored here. Again, the attactions will appear in your search results and on maps. Nearby attractions can be promoted on accommodation pages.
• Events - you can set up events, categorise them and link them to attractions, locations and accommodation. Users can see upcoming events, events calendars, related or nearby events across the site.

On top of that, there are a host of modules that can be used for cross selling, social integration and more. Because the core CMS is open source, there are 1000's of apps that can be added to the system, which will make sure that your destination stands out from the crowd and stays there.

For more information or for a quote, please contact us.