What is Nightsbridge?
It is a "bridge" or pipeline linking your accommodation (room or bed "nights") to portal websites, such as www.thegreatkaroo.com, who want to offer your accommodation to visitors seeking accommodation. These portals require information about the rates you charge and the availability of your accommodation to facilitate bookings for your accommodation.
Benefits of using Nightsbridge
1. Increase your visibility
90% of travellers research online before they book accommodation. They search for available accommodation to suit their dates and itineraries. If you do not make your realtime availability accessible to such portals you will be ignored in these searches.
Ensure that the corporates know you exist; tough times mean that everyone is looking at ways of cutting costs, including corporate travellers. Nightsbridge can link you to MyMarket, Travellers' Choice and Travelport - all of them offering your business for booking to hundreds of large companies and more than 6000 travel agents.
2. Manage your availability
Nightsbridge offers a very easy-to-use booking system. Alternatively it can link to your current front-office system. You can manage your room inventory in one place while Nightsbridge updates your availability in 'realtime' on all the portals. This means you can send instant updates to all the top international sites such as Booking.com, Expedia, Venere, Lastminute.com and Hotels.de (and many more) where you would otherwise have had to manually update your availability.
3. Give your website 'bookability'
Nightsbridge turns your own website into a realtime booking engine where guests can check availability and make online bookings. Cut out all that back-and-forth e-mailing. With Nightsbridge you secure the booking immediately and pay only 10% commission on confirmed bookings - no booking, no commission to pay.
For more information e-mail info@nightsbridge.co.za, phone 021 790 9910 or visit their website at www.nightsbridge.co.za and tell them you were referred by The Great Karoo.
Along with the many benefits of using Nightsbridge, the realtime availability and online booking facility will be added to your listing on the www.thegreatkaroo.com website.
