The Original Tour launches internet resource facility for trade at WTM
1-Nov-2004
Open top bus sightseeing specialist The Original Tour is launching a major new on-line resource centre for the trade at World Travel Market.
Encouraged by a doubling of web bookings this year, the company is now offering tour operators and agents a complete marketing and sales support service through its redeveloped website: www.theoriginaltour.com.
The site gives wholesalers access to key product information and images, as well as enabling them to download and print out the latest version of The Original Tour’s ‘live’ e-brochure containing the very latest tour information. and prices.
Said The Original Tour’s commercial director Colin Atkins: “Agents and operators who dynamically package city breaks and sell via the web 24 hours a day need access to up to date information, which is what our website now provides. If they want to include The Original Tour in a London package they can, for example, download high res pictures and information at any time from anywhere in the world to have a product ready for sale next morning”.
The Original Tour believes that 24/7 access to a ‘knowledge bank’ of information should also be able to answer most queries on The Original Tour’s open top tours around London.
Added Colin Atkins: “We have also included an online brochure which can be printed out by agents in a standard PDF format. Agents have specifically asked us to do this so they can have instant supplies of brochures in the office at all times”.
The new Original Tour site is considerably faster to use, offers instant printing of tickets - helping to turn more queries into confirmed bookings - and complies with the latest W3C3 accessibility standards in accordance with the Disability and Discrimination Act for the visually impaired.
In a further technology upgrade the new Original Tour web can also be supplied to trade partners in a white label format for them give their own branding to linking to The Original Tour from their own web site.
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For more information please contact:
The Original Tour. T: 020 8877 1722