The
Tourism Website Builder is offered in your choice of five editions each
containing powerful Core Features bundled with a selection of Control
Modules that handle
specific functions for tourism operations of every size and scope.
Control
Modules handle site and content management, interactive Web
features, contact management, communications, e-marketing, on-line promotions,
visitor tracking, multiple administrators and more.
Check the
Comparison Chart to see which modules
come with each edition.
What's
New:
Designate
new pages to be featured in a "What's New" section prominently
displayed on the home page
with title, quick summary and link to more information.
Photo
Gallery:
The Photo Gallery module allows you
to create and manage multiple photo galleries. Create galleries with
different themes, seasons, regions or activities. Each gallery can contain
multiple pages of photos. Click on thumbnail images for enlarged photos.
Add photo captions, descriptions, photo credits and Web links. Change
the images as often as you like.
Events Schedule:
This easy-to-use Events Schedule can be used to promote activities at
your business, or regional and community events. Features include: automatic
purge of outdated information; Secure administration with ability to
add, alter or delete messages.
Opt-in E-mail Marketing & Visitor Address
Collection:
Give your Web visitors the opportunity to subscribe to an opt-in e-mail
marketing program based on their personal interests. Regular newsletters
or one-time E-mail marketing pieces can be created and sent to the subscribers.
E-mail can be personalized with individual names. Send to all or only
to those according to their expressed interests. Collect subscribers
automatically from the Web site or enter them manually from telephone
inquiries. Create postal mailing lists from the collected data.
Information Request System:
Minimize the effort involved in answering requests for information from
your Web site visitors by providing electronic documents, including
but not limited to Adobe Acrobat (.pdf), Microsoft Word (.doc), or Rich
Text (.rtf), that can be downloaded, read on-line or requested and sent
by e-mail.
An on-line
form allows visitors to order printed publications that can be sent
by post. Also, personalized requests for information that is not readily
available on the web site can also be submitted on-line. If the viewer
includes their e-mail address, an e-mail response is immediately sent
thanking them for their request, while you are notified by e-mail of
the details of their request. The text of the "thank you"
e-mail can be modified at any time.
FAQ Module:
Let your Web site deliver responds to your most Frequently Asked Questions
(FAQ) and reduce the work load on your employees. Simply create responses
to all of your most commonly asked questions. The Web visitor can select
from a list of questions and choose to instantly receive the responses
on screen or by e-mail.
Tell A Friend:
Grow your audience with this handy feature that enables your Web visitors
to send e-mail to their friends inviting them to visit your Web site.
Web Mail
Web Mail allows you and your employees to collect e-mail with a username
and password from anywhere in the world using an Internet connected
computer with a standard Web browser. No e-mail program is required.
With all the features of regular e-mail programs, Web Mail is a must
for anyone who travels out of the office.
Site Map:
Tourism Website Builder automatically generates a Site Map of the pages
and directory structure of your site. Visitors can use this page to
quickly view descriptions and links to all the pages in your Web site.
Web Site & Document Search:
Give your visitor access to ALL the information provided on your Web
site with a resident search engine that, unlike most search engines,
indexes not only web pages, but all electronic documents that are available
for viewing or downloading from the Web site.
Press Gallery:
Give media outlets and marketing partners the tools they need to promote
your business. The Press Gallery allows you to create and post Press
Releases. An archive is automatically created for past releases. Plus,
images (photos and logos) can be made available for download in print
quality and web quality. Plus travel trade materials, such as itineraries,
tour bus narration and maps can also be uploaded and made available
for distribution.
Multiple
Administrators & Security Assignment:
While Tourism Website Builder is configured to allow access only to
the authorized administrator, this module allows you to define additional
authorized users to administer the site. Also, administrative access
to key sections or pages can be granted to associates or partnering
organizations. I.e.: Tourist Info Booth, Chambers of Commerce, etc.
Assign which sites, sections and pages that each user has the authority
to edit. This feature protects the security of the web pages from accidental
or intentional changes by unauthorized persons within your organization
or other site administrators.
Multiple Web Sites:
Manage multiple Web sites, each with it's own unique Web address. Manage
both public and password protected private sites. These might include
public sites for tourism and economic development and private sites
for clients, suppliers and associates or a secure Intranet for employees.
These sites are administered through the same admin center and share
common tools. Prices for this module are based on the number of sites
administered.
Contact
Management System
Keep in
touch with clients and contacts with this web-based Contact Management
System. Create a listing for each client, employee, business contact
or supplier. Create individual e-mail or multiple individualized e-mail
to all contacts, or target only those according to specific categories
or status (which you can define).
Corporate Communication System
This add-on
to the Contact Management System turns your Tourism Website Builder
into an integrated Private Messaging and Corporate Communication System.
Use this powerful module as a private internal communication system
for staff and for external information distribution to clients, suppliers,
associates and other agencies.
Exchange electronic documents. Reduce mailing costs.
Private system eliminates
e-mail SPAM.
Create
a listing for each client, employee, business contact or supplier. Designated
persons may be given individual usernames and passwords that will allow
them to log in and see any documents, private messages, web mail, web
pages or information that is intended exclusively for them. They
may also be allowed to access and update all, or specific portions of
their listing information. Contact
data can be exported for mail merges & address labels.
Multiple
Property Listings & Tourism Database
Designed specifically for tourism marketing groups and operators of
multiple properties, this powerful module enables you to dynamically
create and display colorful templated database-driven listings for multiple
tourism operators or properties. Web site visitors can browse listings
according to location, business type, recreational interest, amenities
etc.
Secure,
user friendly, capable of handling a complex and growing catalog of
listings, the Tourism Database can be customized to meet your specific
needs. Listings, categories, sub-categories and items can be added,
changed or deleted.
Create
a database entry for each tourism operator. Tourism Website Builder
will then create and display a colorful listing on your Web site based
on the information in the database. Listings are complete with photos,
contact info, services offered and active e-mail and Web links. All
listings are created from a common design template.
Assign
each listing to multiple database categories. These categories determine
where and when the listing will appear, and to return appropriate matches
on visitors' searches. Categories can include location, accommodations,
tour operators, activities, arts & culture, attractions and events,
etc. Add sub-categories that can further define the viewers searches.
I.e.: type of accommodations, setting, amenities offered, seasons of
operation, price, etc. Each sub-category can be assigned specific items.
I.e.: an 'Amenities' sub-category could contain such items as room service,
pool, cooking facilities, cable TV, etc. Visitors can search by selecting
the desired items, or by keywords.
This module
comes pre-configured with the most common categories, sub-categories
and items for the tourism industry, but can be easily edited or reconfigured
using Tourism Website Builder.
My Portfolio:
This add-on to the Multiple
Properties Tourism Database enables visitors to create their
own private portfolios and save their favorite listings to their portfolio
for viewing later. My Portfolio also allows visitors to e-mail their
favorite listings to their friends. A great trip planning feature!
Multi-Tier Listings:
This add-on to the Multiple
Properties Tourism Database was designed specifically for organizations
who wish to offer or sell listings to their members or advertising customers
according to a multi-tiered buy-in.
While the
Multiple
Properties Tourism Database enables you to create a single tier
of listings sharing the same design template, the Multi-Tier Listings
is an add-on module that allows you to create up to three levels of
listings, each with unique display characteristics - Bronze, Silver,
and Gold. Listings can be designated to display according to the tier
of membership buy-in. I.e.: A Gold listing will display more information
and photos than a Silver. A Bronze listing displays less info and features.
Banners & Display Advertising:
Present advertising banners and display ads on your Web site. Ads are
automatically displayed in rotation. Manage the start and end date of
each ad campaign. Specify the 'weight' of each campaign by increasing
or decreasing the frequency of appearance.
Membership/Customer Management:
This add-on
module lets you turn your Multiple
Properties Tourism Database (single or multiple tiers) into a
powerful system for managing the sale and renewal of the members/customers
who have listings on your Web site
Simply
designate a renewal date for each member or customer in your database
and Tourism Website Builder will automatically handle renewal reminders.
Sixty days in advance of expiration, an e-mail notification is automatically
sent to both the member and the site administrator. If not renewed within
30 days another reminder is automatically sent. Upon expiration a final
notification is sent and the listing will be suspended from appearing
on the Web site This module can be integrated with the optional Contact
Management System or the full featured Corporate Communication System,
so you can employ advanced e-mail and communication options with your
membership.
On-line
Membership Application:
An add-on to the Multi-Tiered Membership Module that lets you accept
membership applications on-line. A dynamic web page will display information
on each tier of membership. The prospective member chooses a tier. A
form will appear that contains the fields used in the Tourism Database
for the selected tier. Certain fields that are used for internal purposes
only may be excluded for viewing, at your discretion. Registrants fill
in the blanks and then submit the form. The form is immediately entered
into the database - saving your staff the work of having to manually
enter the information.
You are
notified by e-mail when a new membership application is submitted. New
submissions are automatically designated as 'pending'. Once you have
approved the memberships simply re-designate them as 'current'. The
new registrant will then appear on the Web site and be available for
e-mail marketing and membership management.
On-line Payment:
An on-line payment option can be added to your Membership/Customer Management
Module or your On-line Membership Application that will allow applicants
to pay for their membership, or renew their membership, by credit card
at the time of submission. A secure server will accept the payments
and immediately notify you by e-mail that a payment has been received.
No sensitive credit card information is sent in the e-mail notification.
You retrieve the information securely through Tourism Website Builder
so that you may process the credit card.
On-line
Surveys:
Survey your Web visitors and view the results in real time. Create and
post surveys. Results are tabulated immediately and presented privately
to the site administrator or publicly on-line. Features statistical
reporting and color graphing.
Discussion
Board:
The Discussion Board is a threaded forum that can be used for a variety
of purposes. Answer questions and comments from Web visitors. Share
ideas and experiences between users. Post important community or business
events. It can be open to the public or visible only to those Discussion
Board "members" registered and/or approved by you.
Electronic
Postcards:
The 'Send a Post Card' feature allows visitors to build and send an
electronic e-mail post card to their friends. The Electronic Postcard
module lets you upload as many as 10 photos to create an assortment
of cards. Visitors choose their favorite photo, type in a personal message
and the e-mail address of their friend and an e-mail notification will
be sent to the recipient that an electronic post card is waiting for
them. The recipient clicks of a link in the notice and is transferred
to the post card via their Web browser.
Screensavers:
Downloadable screensavers are a proven way to build traffic to your
Web site. Supply your best photos and we will construct a custom screensaver.
Price is based on the number of images and includes scanning and color
correcting of supplied images and construction of screensaver application.
Visitors to our customers sites have downloaded and installed thousands
of screensavers. This is an excellent promotion tool.
Bundled
Editions:
Tourism Website Builder is available in your choice of five value-packed
editions that bundle our most popular
control modules according to the size and scope of your business.
Modification
and Customization:
If you prefer, we can
create a highly customized and personalized system tailored to your
specific needs. While
each control module offers a complete and rich feature set, if requested,
our programmers can modify any existing component or design and build
any custom component that you may require. Quotes for custom
design and modification are available upon request.
Hosted
Systems
Tourism Website Builder is offered as a managed, hosted
system that eliminates the need for additional hardware, software,
and maintenance typically required by in-house systems.
Deployed Systems
For those who require an in-house installation, we offer a deployed
system delivered pre-configured on a robust Web server ready for
in-house installation. Contact us for a quote.
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