arcRes booking and reservations widgets can
be used by hotels and tourism operators of all
types (apartment bookings, condo reservations,
villa rentals, activities, car rentals, tour
reservations, etc.).
The widgets can be customised
to your website giving travellers a consistent
experience while offering advanced shopping
services including interactive quotes, reservations,
bookings, lead generation and direct marketing.
The widgets are easily customised
to your site colours and fonts by editing a
simple stylesheet file. Two stylesheets are
supplied, one for the horizontal bookings form
and another for the vertical form.
Each page of your website may
select either style. We recommend you use the
horizontal travel reservations widget on the
top of all pages (example
Nautilus Beach Apartments). Build the vertical
booking widget into your travel reservations
page (example
Palm Garden Hotel).
Your webmaster may also create
a custom reservations design for you.
Booking widgets are also available for Facebook
and
Wordpress
To setup your travel booking engine please
ask your webmaster to follow these 3 steps:
1. Set up the travellers tracking script
on your website.
Before you install the bookings widget (form)
on your website your webmaster will need to
past the following javascript to each page of
the website, replacing "iconmap"
with the value supplied for your property.
This code may be placed in the <head> tag or in the
body - i.e. on the top of the page below the "body"
tag. This code sets up the cookies that track
your travel leads and marketing effectiveness.
2. Add the script to display
your booking form
It is recommended that you place the booking
widget on each page of your website. This has
been shown to increase bookings by as much as 20% in many
cases.
Wherever the booking engine is to appear, include
the code below, replacing "iconmap"
with the value supplied for your property. We
recommend that you place the booking engine
on every page of your website.
3. Put the bookings stylesheets on
your server and link it in each page
Copy either the arcRes-vertical.css
or arcRes-horizontal.css
stylesheet into your stylesheet directory.
Include this link in the HEAD of each
page. e.g.:
The fonts and colours in the bookings stylesheet
can be customised to suit your site. We suggest
using the horizontal widget in all pages except
the reservations page.
Examples Hotel and Tourism Bookings, Quotes, Reservations
For small chain hotels, the booking engine can appear on each hotel website with a dropdown list of hotels. In this instance iconmap in step 2 above will be replaced with "iconmap1|iconmap2|iconmap3","HotelName1^HotelName2^HotelName3".
Webmasters will need to insure that the instructions
above are implemented.
If the hotel or tourism property is using
arcRes as a secondary reservations engine the webmaster must
ensure that client or session management or cookies is enabled at the
application level and follow the procedure below:
A client variable/session variable/cookie named "axsesReferrer"
must be set to the value of the URL variable "axsesReferrer"
in every page.
This bookings code is available in the following formats.
Cut and paste this code into each page or save as an included file and include on every page.
asp bookings code
php bookings code
- session variable (using session variables, repeat visitors referred by arcRes channels see the alternative booking engine. Axses recommends the cookie option below.)
php bookings code - cookie
(using cookies, repeat visitors referred by arcRes channels see the arcRes booking widget. Axses recommends this option.)
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Wherever the booking engine is to appear,
check for the existence of the session variable
called "axsesReferrer". If it exists,
include the code below, replacing iconmap with
the value supplied for your property. Axses recommends
that you place the booking engine on every
page of your website.
asp
php
- session variable (using session variables, repeat visitors referred by arcRes channels see the alternative booking engine. Axses recommends the cookie option below.)
php bookings code - cookie
(using cookies, repeat visitors referred by arcRes channels see the arcRes booking widget. Axses recommends this option.)
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NOTES:
Set Session variables: On every page if
a URL variable named "axsesReferrer" exists, set
a session variable named "axsesReferrer" to the
value of the URL variable "axsesReferrer". as
in cfset AxsesReferrer="#url.axsesReferrer#".
If the property (hotel or tourism operator/activity/car
rental etc) is using more than one booking engine
but ALWAYS wishes the arcRes Booking Engine shown,
the instructions under the "Setup Travel Bookings on your Website" section above apply.
Bookings Portals, Chains, Groups and Destination
Sites
Custom Bookings widget for
Groups, Destinations and affiliates
Groups/Chains/Destination
widgets
(live)
Try out this live example >>>>>
The Caribbean Bookings widget is a multiple
destination widget.
The same application may customised for
chains, destinations, associations and
affiliate groups.
We can develop a widget to your specifications.
Contact your AXSES REP or
support "at" axses.com to get your widget
code:
Displays
Hotel and Tourism Specials on Smartphones
All link are direct to website
Bookings and Quotes are optional and require
rates management. More on SmartPhone applications
see http://SmartPhoneTravelapps.com
Contact
AXSES for installation and customisation
Simple
iPhone WebPage
About
AXSES Travel Marketing
AXSES is a travel marketing company building
marketing and management tools for travel suppliers
and destinations. Axses provides Interactive Marketing
and Networking Solutions, including Mobile applications,
Social Network Content and Social Media travel
marketing applications like arcResBookings for
Facebook (a Facebook travel reservations and booking
engine).
AXSES
Systems Caribbean Inc. owns BookingsCaribbean.com,
BookingsDominica.com, BookingsStlucia.com, BookingsBarbados.org,
Barbados.org, RealHolidays.com and over 30 Destination
& Travel Marketing websites. Since 1994 AXSES
has developed hundreds of travel application to
help large Resort hotels and the smaller tourism
operators market and manage their business.
AXSES Travel solutions include booking systems,
marketing systems, advertising systems, knowledge
based expert systems and hundreds of travel components,
integrated together as a Travel Platform. AXSES
Travel Platform helps suppliers manage direct
marketing, distribution, information, knowledge,
communication and business.
AXSES websites provide direct marketing for tourism
suppliers.
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arcRes booking and reservations widgets can
be used by hotels and tourism operators of all
types (apartment bookings, condo reservations,
villa rentals, activities, car rentals, tour
reservations, etc.).
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