Dear customers, partners and colleagues,

Are you looking for some cool and refreshing ideas to turn up sales during the last hot summer days and the months to come?

Our brand new two-way XML interface to Expedia Easy Manage (EEM) is the key to this budget-friendly option to Expedia and venere.

The deal is: If you have your interface to Expedia Easy Manage (which also includes venere) activated by 15 September 2010, you will only pay 50% of the setup fee: 25,00 EUR. So, now is the time to centrally control your online distribution channels, using our centralised and state of art software CultSwitch.

And, in addition, Cultuzz is now offering special discounts to all clients who connect via CultSwitch to five or more IDS.

Please feel free to contact your designated sales manager or send an email to marketing@cultuzz.com, if you have any questions or wish to order. Enjoy reading about other highlights this month in the following articles.

The Cultuzz crew looks forward to hearing from you.

Best regards,



Hannes Waschow
Director of Sales and Marketing
 
 
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  New: Venere by Expedia Easy Manage

Get connected to venere by activating the interface to the newest IDS in the CultSwitch portfolio: Expedia Easy Manage (EEM)!

Expedia Easy Manage (EEM) is one step below Expedia Special Rate program which offers you a lower financial threshold to joining the distribution network of the Expedia group. Although Expedia Easy Manage (EEM) does not include the features "click & mix" and direct marketing support from a designated Expedia account manager, it does offer you the opportunity to automatically display and market your hotel on every portal under Expedia's branded websites worldwide:

1. Expedia.com (19 sites around the world) 2. Hotels.com (up to 73 sites) 3. venere.com.

And, your inventory will be sold as well on more than 10000 affiliate partner websites of the Expedia Group!

Furthermore, the great news for customers already using the Expedia interface is that from now on your hotel rooms will be automatically sold on venere.com.

If you wish to sell your inventory on venere.com and all other Expedia's websites under the best conditions, contact your Sales Manager or write a mail to marketing@cultuzz.com today!

Check out Expedia Easy Manage program now
  Restaurant and wellness vouchers on eBay

What once was a nice by-product has turned into a great business: restaurant and wellness vouchers.

The demand for restaurant and wellness vouchers has tremendously increased over the last couple of years. As a result, eBay has created a special category in which eBay buyers can easily and quickly find these special types of vouchers. The category covers vouchers for: breakfast, brunch, and romantic dinner, as well as, wellness. For example, selling wellness vouchers offer you the opportunity to sell a wide array from services ranging from a basic massage to a complete luxury wellness weekend.

And further good news is: Even hotels which are fully booked use this method to increase revenue "on the side".

Interested in selling more "on the side"? Then get a hold our designated sales manager today or email us at marketing@cultuzz.com.

  Google Maps in all eBay offers from Cultuzz

In the everlasting pursuit to provide the best possible product functionality, Cultuzz has enhanced its CultBay product by integrating Google Maps functionality.

From now on, all offers will include Google Maps display the hotel’s geographical location.

By scrolling down the offer to the bottom, customers can check the hotel’s location and surroundings without leaving the offer. The positive effects are that the sales process is bound to speed up and the conversion rate will increase.

In addition, the hotel location marker on the Google map is linked to www.cultbay.com, where your hotel will be seen worldwide.

Click here to visit CultBay.com
  Welcome HotMax to the CultSwitch Family

The Touristik Team Ltd. located in Bad Bramstedt, Germany offers the latest interface to CultSwitch. Hotmax hotel software is now certified partner.

The Touristik Team Ltd started in the 80s and quickly became one of the first successful PMS (formerly labelled "HOTELMANAGER") on the market.

"HOTELMANAGER" evolved into HotMax and has continuously been improved benefitting from decades of practical experience. HotMax, today, offers a modern structure which includes: client/server architecture, windows compatibility and relational database management system. Hotmax is ideal for holiday hotels, apartments, holiday resorts as well as city hotels.

Click here to find all connected hotel software systems
For more information about HotMax hotel software please click here
  HITEC Report

Cultuzz Digital Media GmbH participated as an exhibitor for the first time at this year’s trade show (HITEC) in Orlando, FL, US.

Our experience showed that the HITEC is an excellent event to learn about what new trends are in the TTH industry and network. We connected with over 20 potential partners, who are seriously interested in integrating Cultuzz products and services into their business portfolio.

The next trade show in line this year is the World Travel Market (WTM) in London, UK this autumn. Look forward to hearing more in the October newsletter.


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