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The BookingCenter Local Distribution System^© (LDS) creates business models around local travel networks. Similar to the Global Distribution Systems (GDS), the Local Distribution System (LDS) works on a regional and/or interest-focused basis that taps into an unlimited number of Suppliers, Agents and Resellers who do business within the LDS.

BookingCenter provides management tools to capitalize on relationships with Resellers, Agents, Travel Suppliers, and existing networks. Today's travel marketplace is increasingly reliant on the Internet and e-business. Those who manage this distribution channel maximize their return from the network.

BookingCenter Partners:

• Create local travel networks that reward and inspire participation.
• Incentivize Agents and Resellers to promote the network.
• Develop deep and profitable relationships within the network.
• Earn ongoing revenue through relationships - locally and globally.
• Invest in a proven, sustainable business model.

Partnership Opportunities

LOCAL DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM

Start a profitable Local Distribution System with a customized BookingCenter business and earn recurring revenue through your Travel Supplier, Agent, Wholesale and Reseller network. We offer two ways of creating a custom Local Distribution System, ie a 'BookingCenter Franchise':

Co-Branded Partner

The fastest way to start and manage a complete travel business - from the Supplier through the GDS. An easy way to create a network using your brand name powered by BookingCenter.

Customized Partner

A completely customized business solution from desktop software to Marketing and Management tools. The only solution for the ‘brand-oriented’ Company or Destination Management Organization.   

Reseller

Earn immediate revenue and long-term residual income by working with the BookingCenter team to market and sell BookingCenter products. As a Reseller, you maintain equity on all products, services, and booking generated from a Supplier you bring to the BookingCenter Network.

Here are a few current customers of the BookingCenter Local Distribution System that you may be interested in viewing:

Product: Co-branded Partner	Product: Customized Partner	Product: Reseller
Company: Web Reservations Systems	Company: Accommodia	Company: Come2Travel
Market: Eastern Australia	Market: Great Britain	Market: Venezuela
Strategy: Leverage VAR, web designer, and travel portals to aggregate properties into community travel model.	Strategy: Leverage 12 years of experience as a 5-star holiday marketer to lock in vacation rental and self-catering properties and consultants.	Strategy: Sell inbound tourists eclectic stays in Venezuela's coastal, urban, and mountain posadas.

BookingCenter is an Application Service Provider (known in the Internet industry as an ASP) for property resellers and web businesses that want to add real-time bookings to their Internet business, develop an inexpensive Call Center, or perform Central Reservation Services for a network of properties. BookingCenter ASP customers takes advantage of:

• Simple desktop and browser-based Management Software that can be provided to ALL the Suppliers in the Network to publish, manage, and price their inventory. The desktop software connects to the BookingCenter central Reservation Service over any Internet connection and runs on all Macintosh and PCs. The browser—based Hospitality Management Software runs on Netscape browsers running Windows, Mac OS, Linux, and most versions of UNIX. Both software programs provide the same functionality, keeping the day-to-business operations of the Supplier's business running smoothly while maintaining current content, rates, and availability in the Central Reservation Service and the BookingCenter Network.
  
  
• The BookingCenter Central Reservation Service allows the LDS Manager, Agents, and Resellers to log-in for reviewing and reporting of all booking and commissions within their ’network’. Additionally, each property in the network gains full access to a secure Member's Area to manage their bookings and guest communications.
  
  
• If the travel suppliers are operating hospitality businesses, the BookingCenter Network can publish the rates, inventory, and content of each property to the two GDS systems (Galileo, WorldSpan, Amadeus, and Sabre) as well as over 2,900 travel websites where customers are buying. The LDS derives a commission from all bookings made through this booking network in addition to those transacted through the supplier's direct site and the LDS Portal website(s).
  
  
• Each Partner receives access to a complete CRM system (Customer Relationship Management) allowing the LDS Partner to perform automated email and traditional marketing, e-commerce control and management, and registration/subscription management to their network of Suppliers, Agents, and Resellers. From anywhere!
  
  
• BookingCenter provides useful online reports on all e-commerce transactions through an LDS Portal, maintaining current records for registrations/subscriptions, visitation patterns, and supplier activity in your network. Perfect for the Call Centers that will be handling the bookings for your suppliers.

The Local Distribution System Business Model

Businesses that sign-up as a BookingCenter LDS create revenue in numerous ways:

Commissions From Bookings.
All bookings made from an LDS website(s) - and the individual Supplier's sites - are charged a negotiated commission on net bookings. BookingCenter shares in the commissions with the LDS Partner, with the percentage depending upon who collects the commissions and from what network the booking was transacted.

Commissions From Software Sales.
The LDS Partner receives a commission from each sale of a BookingCenter software license based upon the number of properties they sign up. Individual properties can manage directly the automatic updating of rates and availability - or the LDS reservation manager can do so for them via web forms, telephone, fax, or email. Regardless, each property in the network becomes a unique BookingCenter license of desktop or browser-based license to a fully functioning management system. For details on the software products, click here.

Sign-up and Hosting Fees for the Booking Service.
Each property in LDS network will be able to provide real-time bookings direct from their website as well as the Partner's and BookingCenter Network. Many LDS Partners charge hosting and sign-up fees to properties for the setup and maintenance of this real-time service.

Recurring Service Fees.
Each property in the Network has the ability to use Point-of-Sale technology to transact their online bookings or local credit/debit card transactions; telecommunications services such as Call Accounting; Internet Backups assuring 24 x disaster recovery. LDS Partners of BookingCenter receive a % of these recurring revenues.

If you are interested in partnering with BookingCenter to create a Local Distribution System of your own, please contact us.

Costs to Create a Local Distribution System

There are hosting and customization costs to create a BookingCenter LDS business.

Hosting Fees
Monthly hosting fees are charged LDS Partners who require customized service. This guarantees 99.9% “up-time” from a secure network architecture balanced from our two server locations in San Francisco, California and Sydney, Australia. Daily backups and firewall security are used to protect the integrity of the LDS's data. Robust Unix servers, Oracle databases, and OMNIS data engines are run to assure enterprise-strength stability.

Customization Costs
There are two levels of customization offered BookingCenter ASP customers:

• Co-Branded LDS Partners receive a customized booking interface to the booking screens, report screens, and Booking URLs. Members of the network log-in to the BookingCenter.com Member's Area and have the same access to online support, commission reporting, and booking & guest management as all BookingCenter customers.
  
  
• Privately Labeled LDS Partners receive all the features of the Co-Branded option plus a completely customized support, Agent/Reseller/Supplier commission processing, and booking & guest management for each property. This is especially important if the LDS is using the service as a Call Center or Central Reservations Solution and wants all Suppliers to maintain a single brand experience through the booking and management process. This option also enables custom reporting capabilities from the system.

All LDS Partners take advantage of time-tested tools and processes (over 11 years in production) that have been proven to run a 24 x 7, scalable booking business. This is a technology franchise opportunity proven to make money while serving a local community.

Contact us to learn how you can operate a BookingCenter Local Distribution System - the best travel franchise offer of the 21st Century!