Tourism Portal builder - build tourism portals quickly and at low cost

Tourism Portal builder - build tourism portals quickly and at low cost

Build tourism portals cheaper and faster with iBooking Portal
iBooking Portal was developed to answer the call for a powerful solution to the common need to build tourism and business portals with standard functionality for driving revenue, sustaining an online community and allowing the promotion of a destination or business interest group.


With many years of experience in the development of strategy and solutions for both organisations and large scale tourism providers, iBooking recognised the value in developing an ASP business engine for rapid portal building and easy management. With experience working for organisations including VisitScotland, Historic Scotland, SouthernUplandWay.com and others, we condensed our knowledge of successful web portals into a single product that is unrivalled in terms of features, functionality and ease-of-use.

'iBooking Portal allows a business group or destination to create a feature-rich portal in a matter of days. This can dramatically cut development time and allows complete focus on business goals and revenue generation.

Features for the Portal User

	Directory - searchable directory of businesses, integrated booking systems
	Area – searchable location listings with related businesses
	Register – user registration with personalised news subscriptions
	A – Z directory
	News & Events
	E-postcards and tell-a-friend features for viral marketing
	Forums – Forums for public website users
	Subscriptions – online subscriptions for new businesses (payment gateway integration if required)

Features for the Business User [registered businesses featured on the Portal]

	Login - Secure and private for extranet users only
	Update profile – business users can maintain business profile
	Update listing – business users can manage content for portal front-end
	My News – users can add B to B news and events items
	My Adverts – users can add B to B adverts and offers for other extranet users
	My Statistics – users can view statistics on number of page views on listing and number of clicks to individual websites
	Search Users – Search other users by business category and contact from within extranet
	Forums – Forums for private extranet users

Features for the Portal Manager

	Subscriptions – Review and approve new subscriptions
	Preferences – Specify order of search results on front end, etc
	Manage Users – Manage Administrators of Back Office, Extranet users and website users
	Send Email – Send Extranet users and website users updates, news, etc from within system
	Manage Content – Full content management of text, images and links for entire portal website
	Media Browser – Store and manage images within logical folders
	E-postcards – manage e-postcard images and descriptions
	Manage Sections – manage adverts and polls/surveys displayed in each section of the website
	Manage Locations – manage text and images for towns and villages in region for area section of portal website
	Manage Directory – manage business categories and individual business listings within categories, businesses can also be assigned to locations to allow portal website users to browse hotels, etc by location
	Manage Subscription Types – manage the descriptions, fields displayed and pricing of subscriptions to allow self sign-up on front-end of portal website.

Cost
iBooking Portal is deployed as a customised solution for every business. A fully featured portal can be deployed for less than £10,000. Contact us for details.

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See Also
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Fact
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