Entries by Jill

Love your agent

One of the major advantages of moving away from an excel booking sheet and onto a central reservations system as sophisticated as ResRequest is that you can leverage your availability to increase sales. We know that the online realm can be a little bit alarming – and knowing how much access to give and to […]

The Giant Flag

We’ve got behind a creative initiative with monumental potential which we will follow and share with great interest. We became a part of the flag by picking to plant red hot blooded desert roses aka the Fire Barrel. The Giant Flag is a legacy project of vast proportions, a celebration of the spirit of South Africa […]

On safari in the Congo

Written by: Carrie Hampton alias the SAFARI TART! Seasoned travellers will be interested in the Odzala Discovery Camps in the Odzala-Kokoua National Park of the remote north of the Republic of Congo’s river basin. It’s the world’s second largest tropical rainforest after the Amazon, and one of the earth’s largest lungs, playing an essential role in global climate control. The region has been a National […]

Star Wars characters renamed

Every year we pick a creative way to highlight and celebrate the team. Since many of our geeks are Star Wars fans and with the release of the latest film, Jill cast our team. Check out our motley crew’s profiles. If you want to know what we really look like – visit our team page.

Our growing team

We are thrilled to share about the newly appointed members to our growing team. This year we welcomed six new staffers to our family. Jen Coppinger is contributing to user interface graphics, user guide material and social media. Alex Moore strengthens the call centre by assisting with data capture, while Angie Geringer supervises product support. […]

How to get guests in your bed – a strategic guide to get more bookings

Written by Mqondisi Gumede, Man and Machine One of the difficulties of marketing in travel is that it is a very large place that boasts an incredible array of beauty. It is a never ending pageant of scenery, culture, beauty, culinary delight, diverse experiences and accommodation establishments at their best décor and service. In such a situation, most hoteliers […]

Working with specials

Written by Paula Chaplin Offering discounts is a practise many of our customers use to ramp up sales. When you implement a discount strategy, it’s important to ask yourself strategic questions like: How will this affect my profit margins? What are my competitors doing? Are there options for promoting sales before we reduce price? It’s […]

E-tourism Africa summit takeaways

Written by Paula Chaplin I was blown away by the standard of the recent eTAS conference I attended. The presentations were incredibly interesting and I learned an enormous amount about social media and the new frontiers of marketing and travel. As far as our clients are concerned – this is what you would have heard… Some of […]

The Twitter consumer

Twitter is an everyday activity – 61% of users visit Twitter everyday & more than 2 in 5 engage several times a day. Mobile is at the heart of Twitter – 85% use a mobile device (phone and/or tablet) to access Twitter. 79%, of whom, state that mobile devices are the primary way they access Twitter. Followers are part […]

A work of love

The AWOL Team Belinda Blakeman our call centre manager, takes leave every year to help run a local annual event called AWOL (A Work Of Love) ‪#‎aworkoflove2015‬ . Approximately 200 teenagers attend a camp in Empangeni – coming together to build relationships as well as receive practical and spiritual input to equip them for life. They also share God’s […]