What actually you can do with Effective Tours ?
Well, I suppose you are here because you are somehow involved in the tourist industry. Then you are in a right place. Welcome ! 😉
Effective Tours is a cloud based solution which aims to connect all the players on the tourist market in to one big community. As a hotelier, you can add your property with all rates and inventory, descriptions and photos. You can connect your distribution channels, e.g. Booking, Agoda, Flipkey, Airbnb, tourist-agents, etc… You can update each channel with a special rates, by varying the markups.
In another words, you can do the sales for your property from one place instead of several. You can avoid double-bookings. You can always be sure, that all your agents and online channels are up to date with the latest offers and rates. And the most important part, that all this basic functionality we are giving free of charge. We believe, that you always have to share something with the others. Channel Manager feature is not a big deal. Non of the agents, or online agencies charging money for that. I mean, Agoda or Booking are not charging us, so why should we charge others ?
Any participant of the ET, I mean hoteliers, taxi service, agents and operators , can invite all their current online/offline agents to register with ET and start updating them instantly. Imagine, instead of calculating several Excel spreadsheets with a various markups for different categories, and resending them to your agents each time when you update the rates, or decide to give a special/lastminute offer – you simply update the ET and all the updates will be instantly available for all of your agents. Instead of answering tons of emails and phone calls about the property availability, you simply give access to your inventory and your business partners will have 24h/7days access without any disturbance to you.
If you have a web-site of your hotel/service then you always need to update it. It means you have to spend your time for it, and pay the money to the webmaster of yours. Since you switch to Effective Tours, you can simply forget this annoying job! Simply ask your webmaster to connect your web site to Effective Tours API and all your rates/inventory/discounts will be instantly available on your own web-site each time when you update your ET profile.
Flipkey, Tripadvisor, AirBnb, Roomorama, and many other online agencies, which use the open iCal format for it’s agenda, can be updated throw the ET fast and easy.
You will never forget to update the description and the photos of your property for your agents, if they are inside the ET. According to your security settings we will update your partners with up-to-date information regarding your hotels and service.
With the support of the most secure messenger on the planet – Telegram Messenger, you will get instant booking notification/reminders, Check-in/Check-out notifications with dull guests details. Free of charge, by the way.
Have any questions ? Please write email to ET or Telegram.me!