Interactive Keys

General description

The IX-tourism key is a countrywide web solution and product designed for tourism boards, destination service providers and hotels to take back control of their country’s brand. Through improved distribution and awareness generating a greater amount of visitation directly. The destination & travel suite can be added to any existing website providing unlimited amounts of promotions online - all controlled at a grass roots level.

Ability to publish own products and make these more attractive by promoting services with local interest, culture, heritage, special events and points of interest. The visitor to your website can also tailor own packages around your products with flights, excursions, transfers and special promotions by using the Concierge travel planner.

Plug & Play (easy to use download pod)
All you need to do is subscribe, for your very own IX-tourism dynamic packaging key and interactive travel planner to be placed on your website, immediately all fully loaded.

Pre-filtered & tailored services automatically around the core product
The IX-tourism key will portray all content, services and information available around your tourism business whether hotel, destination and surroundings.

Fairtrade Tourism designed to drive more bookings at higher margins directly to suppliers
As an Affiliate member of the UNWTO the IX-tourism solutions are designed as practical intervention programmes to drive more revenue to the destination.

ZERO commission charge on dynamic packaged bookings
If a consumer books a hotel room combined with a flight, an excursion or other services there is till NO charge to the supplier regardless of volume.

Fully loaded destination content
Destination content around your business is provided with automatic updates and each subscriber is able to add additional content around their specific hotel or service activity.

Unique intuitive Planner
No matter what service or information the online-customer selects, the intuitive concierge will offer additional corresponding services that automatically matches and filters live content around the customer’s motives, numbers, dates, interest or lifestyle needs.

Flights from anywhere in the world to your hotel location
The IX-tourism key will provide access to all scheduled airlines worldwide allowing customers to book flights from anywhere to the airport(s) closest to your destination in only one booking procedure and at best available market fares without commission mark-up. Coming Spring 2011.

Easy to use editing function for self-management
You may choose the colours of your personalised page from a selection of templates provided. By using the online IX-editor, you can also edit descriptions, content and pictures any time you like.

Low annual subscription
Low annual subscription charge that is affordable for every hotel to drive more revenue direct. For sale and distribution of as many packages, promotions and events as you like for the entire year.

Automatic pickup of all inventory and rates
Your rates are automatically picked up from your CRS system with direct connect. All descriptions and pictures can be modified in the IX-editor. If you are without a CRS IX-tourism provides a free direct link.

Hotel determines rates available
You decide on prices, special offers and availability.

Partners can be added for additional revenue
You may post partner logos or descriptions of their products, giving them ‘advertising space’ on your site. You have a special section in the portal to allow your local partners or potential partners to charge an advertising fee enabling you to easily cover the annual subscription fee for the IX-key. The fee is subject to your own negotiations.

Support Desks
Our online support centre is always at your service 24 hours a day. You may contact us at newsmaster@ix-tourism.com and will receive an answer within 24 hours.

Fulfilment services
Additional services, e.g. flights, are dealt with and invoiced through our online booking system. All booking confirmations will be emailed to your clients online with copy to your reservation department with appropriate terms and conditions.

Statistics and reporting tool
IX-e tracking site provides you with real-time live visitor monitoring on a graphical interface, tracking of unique visitors over long periods of time, enabling tracking of first-time as well as returning visitors. It further is a search term analysis and reporting tool, which enables you to track, record and analyse terms used to find your site in the World Wide Web. You may extract a complete list of terms ordered by popularity through time.