Are you using NightsBridge?

NightsBridge is a "bridge" or pipeline linking your accommodation (room or bed "nights"), to the marketing channels who want to sell that accommodation to the public. These marketing channels can be accommodation web sites, or it can be travel agents. Nelson Mandela Bay Tourism is one of these channels. The channels want availability and rates information so they don't have to phone or email in order to make an immediate booking on behalf of a customer.
 
Benefits of using Nightsbridge:
 
1. Increase your Visibility
90% of travellers research online, before they book. Guests search for available accommodation on their travel dates. If you're not offering your realtime availability up to the marketing channels, you won't be seen in those searches.
 
Make sure the corporates know you exist: Tough times means everyone is looking at a way to cut costs, including corporate travellers. NightsBridge can link you to MyMarket, Traveller's Choice and Travelport -- all of them offering your property for booking to hundreds of large companies and more than 6000 travel agents.
 
2. Manage your Availability
NightsBridge offers a very easy-to-use booking system or can link to your current front-office system. You can manage your inventory in one place while Nightsbridge updates your availability in 'realtime' on all the marketing channels. This means you can send instant updates to all the top international sites like Booking.com; Expedia; Venere; Lastminute.com and Hotels.de (and many more) where you would otherwise have to manually update your availability.
 
3. Gives your website Book'Ability'
NightsBridge turns your own website into a realtime booking engine, where guests can check availability and make online bookings. No more email ping-pong back and forth. With NightsBridge you secure the booking immediately and all bookings made on your own website are 100% commission free.
 
NMBT members gain Nightsbridge for free, you only pay to be listed on other sites.
 
For more information email info@nightsbridge.co.za, call 021 790-9910 or visit their website www.nightsbridge.co.za
 
If you are already a nightsbridge user, here are the instructions, to access the Links Manager.
 

1. Go to our website www.nightsbridge.co.za
2. Click on Owner’s Login
3. Enter your BBID and password
4. Click on the ‘Links’ Tab
5. Click on Links Manager
6. Scroll down to the website you want to request (e.g. Nelson Mandela Bay Tourism www.nmbt.co.za)
7. Click ‘Link Me’

 
This sends an email to the website, to let them know that you’d like to be linked. They will contact you to gather any additional information required to setup your link. Alternatively just send NMBT your BBID.