The wild Frontier of Adventure Tourism Meets the High Tech World with a New Online Marketplace
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(PRWEB) June 5, 2005
For all of those of you waiting for the day when adventure tours can be found all in one place and booked online just like flights, hotels and car rentals It has arrived.
Adventure Engine (AE) is a brand new online adventure travel marketplace and is calling all tourism suppliers to get on board. The company plans to stock its database with a diverse offering of adventure tour seats and provide tools to those suppliers to allow them to package, market and sell those seats.
Take your average travel directory listing website add booking and payment capabilities.
Then add to that unlimited portals example (http://www.rosslandmtadventures.com/demo.htm ) on resellers websites such as chambers of commerce, tourism associations, agents, hotels, resorts and carriers. And the result is a supplier can now sell trips on multiple sites without the hassle of timely callbacks and double bookings.
This makes AE unlike any other database out there serving the industry.
The CEO, Amber Hayes, a tour operator in Rossland for 5 years and board member of the Rossland Chamber of Commerce, comments on the benefits for individual tour operators and the BC tourism industry as a whole:
For over two years, we have been developing Adventure Engine because it was clear the industry needed a system that could unite this tourism sector. Communities and their products cant get the proper global recognition alone. By coming together in once place we become much more accessible to agents and the end consumer. Surfing multiple sites is no longer necessary. Now you can search, compare and buy adventure travel in adventureengine.coms one stop shop. For operators this is a huge advancement. It allows for the type of booking growth we have seen happen in airlines, hotels and rentals. It lets us partner much more widely and with auto tracking and payment of commissions it doesnt increase our workload, just our seat sales. It is unlike other sites currently available.
Asked if the leap to technology is going to be difficult for the adventure tour operator, Amber replied, This system has been built by an adventure tour operator for the adventure tour operator and their partners. It is as easy to use as emailing or adding an item to Ebay. We are solving a complicated set of problems with an inexpensive easy to use system. AE is respecting the trends of cost sharing with online applications and extrapolating our combined marketing power.
She adds that these features would cost an individual operator thousands of dollars if they attempted to add these features to their own site. By implementing a revolutionary shared database, adventure engine costs the end user nothing and the supplier only $ 120 plus 1% transaction fees so its basically a pay as you go business model.
For resellers such as travel agents, its a fresh new revenue stream generated through their website without any additional work required.
And for the suppliers, take 10 big resellers such as a ski resort, airline or large association site that can receive over 5,000 hits/day. Thats extra exposure for the supplier of more than 1.5 million visitor hits a month! Now you take that math and multiply it by 100 then 1000.
Thats the online network and affiliate technology. It extrapolates all on its own. The bigger it gets, the more others visit and join, and the system does all the work. It doesnt get much easier than that.
Travel is the 2nd fastest growing market online its time for the adventure market to get on it.
For more information on AE and how it can benefit your tour operation or community tourism initiative call toll free 1 800 993 6648 or check out their new website at http://www.adventureengine.com.
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