accommres, a new online reservation system, offering multi-lingual and multi-currency capabilities, together with an excursion, activity and attraction booking facility, has been launched by Carlisle-based e21Software. It's ease of set-up and use allows anyone with a hotel, guesthouse, yacht, caravan or holiday property, to become a profitable international travel business with minimal investment and IT knowledge.

Many leading High-Street travel brands are in crisis. Thomson, Lunn Poly and Going Places have all announced dramatic revenue losses due to a significant shift in the in the way people book holidays.

"People are more confident using the internet which means anyone in the travel and tourism trade must ensure they are up to speed with the latest developments in online booking and reservations," said Rob Jones, Managing Director of e21Software.

Independent travel using the Internet is on the increase

The growing trend for travellers to become more independent and willing to book their own travel and hotel accommodation online puts even more pressure on traditional travel organisations. Websites, together with online reservation and booking systems have become a critical sales and marketing tool for anyone in the travel and tourism industry looking to maintain or increase revenue.

Large hotel chains have been using the benefits of online reservation systems for many years, however, most small and medium sized hotels and independent holiday property owners have so far found them cost prohibitive which has made it difficult to take this new technology on-board. In addition, the market leading online travel websites work on a commission-based model which eats away at the profit of the small hotelier and property owner to the point where it's no longer economically viable to remain on the sites.

Increased bookings all year round for your hotel or holiday property

This has all changed with the introduction of a new online reservation system called accommres which was launched last month. accommres, developed by e21Software of Carlisle, is an online reservation system that works on a flat fee and ongoing subscription basis. Unlike other systems, it's multi-lingual, supporting up to 15 languages, and multi-currency.

Additional revenue streams for your holiday property

Other online booking systems only deal with property or room booking. accommres allows the hotel or property owner to create additional revenue streams to their business by facilitating the additional booking of excursions, attractions or activities. For example, a holidaymaker can book a week's holiday at a villa in Spain, a round of golf and car hire, all in one simple transaction.

This means that anyone with any kind of holiday accommodation can instantly become an international travel and tourism business. In the short time since the software's launch, e21Software has been inundated with orders from hotel and property owners all over the world.

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"Providing your hotel, guest house, yacht or holiday property has a basic website, accommres can work for you. You don't need any special IT skills, you just install the software and accommres does the rest. With our system a small family hotel in say, Cornwall can take online bookings from people in Japan or anywhere in the world without the worry of language or currency issues," said Jones.

A free trial of accommres is available from www.e21software.com