News di 11/12/2007
The Pays de Fontainebleau Tourist Board chooses FastBooking for its online hotel booking centre
FastBooking, the Internet hotel booking solutions expert, and the Pays de Fontainebleau Tourist Board have just formed a partnership to integrate the FastBooking booking engine as a transparent brand on the latter's website.
The FastBooking solution will enable the Pays de Fontainebleau Tourist Board to offer visitors to their website access in real time to rates and availabilities of hotels in Fontainebleau and the surrounding area who are members of the Tourist Board and who wish to integrate the online booking system. Internet users will also be able to book free of charge and with no prepayment, and receive immediate confirmation of their booking. Since 3rd December 2007, visitors will be offered direct access to hotel bookings, on the site homepage, at very attractive prices.
Agents in the Tourist Board are also equipped with the FastBooking system, which enables them to meet requests, especially last minute ones, from visitors.
A dual objective for the Pays de Fontainebleau Tourist Board
This partnership comes as part of a general improvement campaign led by the Tourist Board of the services available on their website, www.Fontainebleau-tourisme.com. The site has an increasing number of visitors annually (550,000 visitors in 2007, up 33 % from 2006) who now frequently log on to the accommodation pages.
The Pays de Fontainebleau Tourist Board also intends to boost the economic development of the department, which has the 2nd largest hotel offer in the Ile de France region after Paris. It will thus enable member hotels to increase their booking sources and strengthen their visibility for a mainly individual and international clientele.
Thus, Fastbooking's multi-lingual booking interface will allow them to attract customers from all over the world.
Brigitte Bonnet, Director of the Tourist Board comments, "The ease of use of FastBooking's extremely efficient engine and the flexibility it offers hoteliers were deciding factors in our choice. At the same time, the FastBooking solution will enable hotels that are members of the Tourist Board to integrate the new booking centre easily with a minimum of constraints."
A huge task of referencing and promotion of the site is running in parallel to strengthen its presence on the main foreign search engines.
A win-win partnership
FastBooking is very enthusiastic about this new partnership, which is completely in line with its strategy to expand to institutional organisations.
"The Pays de Fontainebleau Tourist Board has all the features we look for in our partners: a high-quality offer of charming hotels and a constant desire to improve its site and its services to optimise results," explains Alain Hirschfeld, in charge of partnerships.
FastBooking, who has over 3 years' experience with the Paris Convention and Visitors Bureau, will provide the Fontainebleau Tourist Board and its member hotels with its expert knowledge: permanent integration of new hotels, training hoteliers in the booking system, availability of a customer service.
At the same time, the member hotels will be able to equip their own website with the FastBooking booking engine at preferential rates and will thus benefit from all the services that FastBooking offers, including distribution on the www.fastbooking.com sites and those of its partners (Tripadvisor, ViaMichelin, Kelkoo, GoVoyages, etc.)
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