HolidayRentals Web Services

HolidayRentals have been developing websites for holiday style accommodation since 1998. By specialising in the holiday market, HolidayRentals can provide you with a cost-effective internet presence with state-of-the-art design and technology.

Services we provide are:

1. Accommodation Websites for smaller operators (eg houses, cottages, or B&B's).
   

2. Large-scale database driven sites for holiday rental property agents . (eg real estate agents, property agents, and resorts).

3. Upgrading and maintenance of existing sites (eg Ray White).

4. Search Engine optimisation and submission.

5. Availability Calendars and 360 Panorama's.

Each HolidayRentals site is custom-made, and can be designed to suit your specifications. With many years of experience in our team, we can provide a quality product and keep our prices down.

Websites for accommodation providers (small)

A website for your holiday accommodation business should operate as an online sales brochure that will also cut dollars from your marketing budget, increase your business efficiency and improve service to your customers.

Our websites incorporate a database, allowing customers to search for holiday accommodation according to their requirements. Customers have two ways to quickly find properties particular to their needs:

1. Search: Customers can tick boxes to highlight their particular requirements eg. pets allowed, cot available, bbq facilities, and the database will display the properties from your listings which will suit their needs. This means a customer can sift through your listings quickly, without having to read about each property before making a decision.

2. Browse: Customers with more time can browse through your listings to see what is available, select a property for more details, and then make a decision. The customer then selects an appropriate holiday property, and completes a booking request form which is emailed to you.

Website structure

The site HolidayRentals can design for you is made up of five main sections:

Home:
This is the first page of your website. It is a unique opportunity to sell your area as a holiday destination. Customers can see photographs of your area and read a short description highlighting the tourist qualities of your town.

Search:
The database behind your site enables your customers to find the property they need quickly and effectively. By ticking boxes to indicate their preferences, customers can narrow down their search and find their ideal property quickly. The technology behind this search engine is the best available on the web today.

Browse:
This is your online brochure - a full listing of the details of your listed properties. It is designed to allow customers to browse through a summary of all of your listings, and then to click on the properties they would like more information on. Each property has its own page with all of its information and photographs, ideal for the customer to print off and consider at their leisure.

Local Information:
We add in a range of maps and tourist information to promote your area, providing holidaymakers with the contacts and details they need for a fantastic holiday.

Contact Agent:
A page for you to promote your agency to landlords and holidaymakers, and receive requests/feedback from customers.

Why Property Agents should have a Holidayrentals site

• Cost Savings
  Save money on printing, postage and telephone costs. You can reduce the number of brochures you currently post out by directing customers to your website. There they can get all the important details and information they need, and can request a booking online. Holidaymakers can find answers to those questions that you are often asked without having to consult you, saving you precious time.

• Cheaper Establishment Costs
  We specialise in creating sites for property agents, so you can have quality internet exposure for a fraction of the price through shared technology, development and hosting costs. To establish a web site with database capabilities is prohibitively high for most small agencies. By specialising in the holiday market, HolidayRentals can provide you with a cost-effective internet presence with state-of-the-art technology.

• Great Domain Name
  We can offer you a web address that incorporates your business name and is easily remembered by your clients: www.holidayrentals.com.au/yourname.htm. This is a marketable web address you will be able to incorporate into all of your advertising. We can also organise your own web address for you: www.yourname.com.au.

• Improved customer service
  You can offer your customers a lot more service than ever before. Holidaymakers can obtain a lot more information about a property than can fit into a brochure, see more photographs, and perhaps look at a 360 degree panorama of the property. They can also see maps of your area and read local tourist information. Because customers can do their own research, your customers will have a clear understanding of the property that they have booked. Best of all, they can find answers to those questions that you are often asked, all without having to consult you.

• Attract More Listings
  Property owners will see that potential customers can access more information on your website than they can with conventional promotional material. Current HolidayRentals clients have seen increases of more than 20% in their number of listed properties due to the competitive advantage of their web site, and have been able to deal with extra bookings without extra staff.

• Lower Vacancy Rates
  Because of the reach of the internet, you will reach more customers than before. HolidayRentals will submit your site to all major search engines, and also list your site on www.holidayrentals.com.au, so you can take advantage of our traffic and national marketing efforts.

• Simplicity
  You don't have to deal with messy administrative matters and technical internet programming - just provide us with your current marketing material and we do the rest. You don't even need to be computer literate.

• Up-to-date Information and Ongoing Service
  Your new site will be carefully designed so you can update it quickly and simply. HolidayRentals will provide you with training, and a written guide on how to maintain your site, and our technicians are always available to help. Alternatively, we can maintain your site for you. No more out of date catalogues!

360 degree panoramas

Our sites can incorporate 360 degree panorama photographs. These can be viewed by anyone surfing the internet, as they don't require any special plug-ins, and give the viewer an experience similar to standing inside a room and turning around. Contact us if you would like more information, or see an example for yourself at www.holidayrentals.com.au/pano.htm

See for yourself

An example of our specialist property agent web site can be seen at: www.holidayrentals.com.au/dolphin.htm. You will notice the holiday feel we have incorporated into the site design, and the ease with which holidaymakers can choose their holiday rental. Please contact us if you would like a copy of a reference from Dolphin Real Estate.

The cost of a HolidayRentals designed, hosted and built website for property agents, complete with database and search facilities, depends upon requirements. Email us with more details, and ask for a obligation free quote.