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For destination marketing organisations (DMO / CVB)

The TourCMS Marketplace solves the problem of how to organise your regional tour / activity suppliers into a single system enabling you to promote them as efficiently as you currently promote hotels

Feature all the tours / activities (including dates / prices / availability / booking capability) from regional suppliers on your regional website without having to invest in a massive administration extranet that you struggle to convince your suppliers to keep current
Once a supplier is in the TourCMS Marketplace system their content is then available to many other websites too - meaning that their tours / activities will be well promoted - improving visitor numbers to your destination
Access data from all your regional suppliers in a standard XML format (or use JavaScript widgets)

Explain how the tours get distributed to other websites?
Lets take the example where you decide to help to put 100 of your local suppliers onto TourCMS (we can help with training for that). Perhaps 10 of those 100 offer diving tours. If a diving tour magazine website wants to feature just the 10 suppliers who offer diving tours they can form a partnership (in the TourCMS Marketplace) with just those 10. Immediately that diving magazine has access to all the tour descriptions, images, dates, prices & availability from those 10 suppliers.

Your region benefits from more exposure and from providing online booking capability from a tricky sector to get right. These partnerships can be formed without you having to do any additional technical integration hence at no cost to you. The diving magazine website just will need to integrate with the standard TourCMS API (designed to be a web style XML standard for everyday web developers not database gurus) or use the JavaScript widget system (see below)

How much does it cost?
Each supplier would need a basic TourCMS account costing 13 GBP or 26 USD per month per account. Further TourCMS account price information

Alternatively you can run a single multi-supplier account and let suppliers login to your central account, load products, update dates, view bookings etc.

JavaScript widgets
The JavaScript widgets enable you to distribute content from multiple suppliers with no development work. For example this widget is based around a geographic point and could feature multiple suppliers.

Further examples and explanation

Any examples?

TourSift - our demonstration TourCMS website showing how to build a self-contained site (no linking to supplier websites and uses a branded booking engine to put bookings straight into each supplier's own account)
GO Activities - a UK outdoor activity website featuring bookable product from hundreds of activity providers

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