- About Direct Booking travel agency
- About Direct Booking portal
- Online promotion
- What are the requirements for a collaboration with Direct Booking
- The advantages of working with Direct Booking on affiliate relationship
- How can I publish my offer in the portal ?
- How can I manage my offer in the portal ?
- How the bookings are made from allotmens or on-request?
- Competitive price guarantee
- Methods of payment accepted by Direct Booking
- Fees and commissions charged by Direct Booking
- Booking cancelation policy
About Direct Booking travel agency
Direct Booking travel agency is specialized in online booking via the portal www.directbooking.ro. Direct Booking is a modern booking portal that presents to the tourists offerings available accommodation at the hotels both in Romania and abroad, stays and circuits combined with presentation of destinations and landmarks in the area. Our mission is to offer tourists accurate, complete and updated information about offers and hotels, so that they make the best choice.
About Direct Booking portal
Direct Booking portal uses modern technology to inform the tourist accurately and completely. Destinations have GPS coordinates entered and locations on the map and landmarks are presented near destination (tourist attractions, shopping, transport etc) so that the tourist can make an informed assessment of both the hotel / guest house and the city or area in which he/she is accommodated.
Direct Booking portal allows tourists to make a booking for travel services (as on a e-commerce website), to see the prices, check available rooms, check availability during a period, specify the number of people (adults and children) and optional services. If we have allotments for the dates requested by the tourist, the services can be paid at the moment of booking by credit card. If the provider does not have allotments, we will contact the hotel to confirm the reservation and then tourist in order to proceed with the payment.
Online promotion
Direct Booking promotes the offer published online, through Google Ads, Facebook, Twitter and other means of promotion, so your hotel or Pension will benefit from active promotion of offers published in the portal.
What are the requirements for a collaboration with Direct Booking ?
Direct Booking offers owners of hotels or pensions a dedicated portal page where they can register their hotel and where they can publish their offer. Offers published in this site are directly accessible by tourists at rates set by the hotel.
From a financial perspective, the cooperation with Direct Booking is based on ceeding a certain percent of the final price. The fee charged by Direct Booking for bookings made in the portal is between 5 and 7% (including VAT). Direct Booking has no other fees.
The advantages of working with Direct Booking on affiliate relationship
- High flexibility in adjusting, at any time, the published offer without the need of confirmation from Direct Booking;
- Rates published in the site by affiliate partners are final selling prices, displayed to tourists without any adjustments from Direct Booking
- Lower fees that other travel agencies
- You may opt for full payment at the reception or an advance payment representing to cover the cancelation fees
- At any moment you can change the room availability
Comparison of the collaboration as an affiliate partner or as a normal travel agency
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As a travel agency |
Affiliation |
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Tourist visibility |
Agency promotes hotels and packages that they think will bring the greatest profit. Not all hotels receive maximum visibility. |
Direct Booking Portal promotes all affiliated hotels. Moreover, hotels can be found by browsing by region and resorts or tourist attractions, or can be promoted prominently on the main page. |
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Changes in your offer |
Between the agency and the hotel there are firm contracts that set prices. For this reason it is difficult to communicate to potential tourists hotel rates that suffer temporary changes as special offers or last minute offers. |
Direct Booking online allows you to change the sale price by altering them in the administration page or by contacting the Direct Booking and requesting the changes. Tourists can see the same day update rates and specials advertised in the portal. |
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Room allotment |
Hotels can lose customers if they have rooms blocked by a travel agency who paid a guarantee. If the agency can not sell the rooms on time, they may remain unoccupied and hotel revenues are lost. |
You can allocate some rooms for the portal for sale without confirmation, even if you do not have an allotment contract. You can always change the availability in the portal. If a client makes a reservation for an allocated room but which is no longer available, you can, within 2 hours after booking, to cancel the booking and Direct Booking will contact the tourist to resolve the situation. |
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Booking confirmation |
A travel agency has limited resources and sometimes cannot handle a larger number of tourists, depending on available resources and work schedule. |
Direct Booking Portal can process many reservation requests and will automatically notify the hotel about reservations made 24/7. |
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Payment |
The travel agency collects the money from the tourists and transfers it to the hotel. |
Direct Booking allows 1 type of payment: - Full payment to Direct Booking |
How can I publish my offer in the portal ?
Open the page hotel-affiliation.aspx. Here you need to fill your data, details obout the hotel and the offer for the next period.
After you finish completing the registration form, you will receive completed affiliation agreement with all data, both online and by email, which must be signed and sent to the Direct Booking by fax at 0040214102050 or scanned and emailed to office@directbooking.ro or by mail at the address specified in the site, together with a copy of your license. In a short time after we receive the documents we will enable your offer in our portal.
How can I manage my offer in the portal ?
After the initial activation of your offer, you can always manage your hotel and offers by accessing the following page: /hotel-management.aspx. This page allows you to:
- Add or change hotel or pension information, including the image gallery.
- Change or add price intervals;
- Supplement or amend the rates for basic and optional services for each type of room and for each price period;
- For each priceing period you can set standard prices or special prices, like Early Booking or weekend prices.
- For each type of room you can easily set avaliability for a specific date range.
- View statistics and reports;
Several screenshots of the management section are available here.
How the bookings are made from allotmens or on-request?
Both on the first registration and subsequently in the management interface, you have the option to set allotments or on-request reservations.
For every booking made by tourists from allotments, we will immediately notify the hotel about the status of the order recorded in the site. The hotel has the opportunity to notify us within two hours (during working hours) if ther is a case of overbooking.
Competitive price guarantee
The provider must publish the Direct Booking Portal competitive prices, which means that prices published on website Direct Booking must be lower than prices charged by the supplier at the reception unit or directly on its website.
Methods of payment accepted by Direct Booking
Full payment at the hotel means that the hotel will charge the tourists based on the voucher issued by Direct Booking. Direct Booking will issue a monthly invoice to the hotel with the total fees due.
Advance payment in the portal and the remaining amount paid at the hotel means that the tourist will pay a certain amount to Direct Booking (cash, card or bank transfer) at the moment of the booking. The advance can be percent (10-30%) or a night of accommodation, at which our fees will be added. The part of the payment that is due to the hotel will be transfered to the hotel.
Full payment in the portal means that the tourist will pay directly to Direct Booking (card, cash or bank transfer) at the moment of the booking. After the option date, but before the first date of booking, Direct Booking will transfer to the hotel the due amount, based on the invoice issued by the hotel.
Fees and commissions charged by Direct Booking
The rates entered by the hotel in the management interface are final sale prices, for which Direct Booking will apply a comission at the moment of the booking.
The comission will be deducted from any due amount thet Direct Booking will pay the the hotel.
Booking cancelation policy
In the case of full payment in Direct Booking, the hotel must specify at the moment of regsitration what is the cancelation deadline until which not cancelation fees apply, and what are the cancelation fees after the deadline.
