We are looking for a generic booking service. We are currently with about 9 different promotional sites. This obviously causes problems with the booking side trying to coordinate it all.

Booking Companies are asking for 6% fee which is pretty high if your own site is involved in the 6% fee. Also the other danger i see is if we select someone we become almost reliant on them and they maybe difficult to get away from if we are not happy.

What are our options? If we do go with a generic booking service, how tied in with them are we?

This question is one that Jane and I have been looking into in some detail. There are many choices on offer and it can get very confusing.

The answer to this question has been posted on the OM4Tourism blog.
http://om4tourism.com/blog/liquid-inventory/

As it is quite a complex area, the article gives some background. But you can skip through to the section that looks at 5 questions you should assess before looking at 3 potential solution providers.

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Glenn Nicholas
OM4.

Hi Glenn,
I've put our experience as a comment on the blog.
Cheers
Tim