Holiday Offers
Booking your next holiday direct rather than through a booking platform offers you some serious savings with discounted deals often knocking 15-30% off a typical holiday booking cost.
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Why is it cheaper to book holidays direct?
Since the internet has become so dominant in our everyday lives it has touched virtually every aspect of how we live and organise our free time including how we book our holiday accommodation. On the surface this is a good thing, it makes viewing your accommodation easy and the booking process simple but for the holiday companies providing the service they get hammered by huge fees which often amount to 30% of your total booking payment. Large so-called 'Online Travel Agents' or OTA's for short now dominate this booking process with household names like Booking.com and Tripadvisor being amongst the biggest players. Holiday companies which decide not to list properties on the OTA's face an uphill struggle to get exposure online as they try to compete with the enormous advertising budgets that these OTA's command. They need to work hard to encourage guests to book direct with them and in doing so they are keen to offer some really generous discounts typically between 15-25% off standard rates. This is where BestBookDirect.com comes in, we specialise in digital promotion in the travel industry and work with brands which offer guests great deals for booking direct and in return the holiday brands reward us with a small payment per booking which is typically between 1-5%. We are not greedy and recognise that in order for the market to operate successfully hotels need good online exposure but that should not cost them an unreasonable amount if the industry is to be robust and sustainable. |
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