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Okay, I have a few (what I think) are great ideas and some money to get if off the ground.
I'm thinking of setting up something similar to hotels.com or bookings.com but on a smaller scale for a smaller region, let's say for wales. I'd then be looking to buy up relevant domain names welsh-hotels hotels-in-wales etc etc but rather than have them all just 'point' to one site, I'd be looking to have them with some good content and linking to eachother. Am I right in thinking this will help push it up the ranks ? Also, having a good set of images with decriptions so that they can also be found if someone is looking at google images for hotels, castles, beaches etc.
So a few questions are:-
1. Can this be with some opensource (or cheap but good) software ?
2. Will this software allow the hotels to use it at their end to manage bookings so that my site shows 'real time' availability ? If not, how hard would it be to get my site and their systems to integrate ?
3. Have any of you ever done a project similar to this ? Any tips ?
4. I'd want to be able to take payments online and take a % or flat fee for each booking.
5. I'd want to capture customer details for future marketing.
6. I'd want a system that could manage all the deposits, bookings, payments, availability, cancellations, billing, payments etc etc as automated as possible.
7. How much do you think this would all cost (roughly) ? Are we talking £00's, £000's or £000,000's ?
I'm also looking at another project again on a smaller scale of something like rightmove.co.uk
Would want the same sort of thing, but for the letting/estate agent businesses instead of hotels.
Most of the domains I was thinking of are available but I don't want to register them if the project would simply cost me too much to do.
Thanks in advance............
I'm thinking of setting up something similar to hotels.com or bookings.com but on a smaller scale for a smaller region, let's say for wales. I'd then be looking to buy up relevant domain names welsh-hotels hotels-in-wales etc etc but rather than have them all just 'point' to one site, I'd be looking to have them with some good content and linking to eachother. Am I right in thinking this will help push it up the ranks ? Also, having a good set of images with decriptions so that they can also be found if someone is looking at google images for hotels, castles, beaches etc.
So a few questions are:-
1. Can this be with some opensource (or cheap but good) software ?
2. Will this software allow the hotels to use it at their end to manage bookings so that my site shows 'real time' availability ? If not, how hard would it be to get my site and their systems to integrate ?
3. Have any of you ever done a project similar to this ? Any tips ?
4. I'd want to be able to take payments online and take a % or flat fee for each booking.
5. I'd want to capture customer details for future marketing.
6. I'd want a system that could manage all the deposits, bookings, payments, availability, cancellations, billing, payments etc etc as automated as possible.
7. How much do you think this would all cost (roughly) ? Are we talking £00's, £000's or £000,000's ?
I'm also looking at another project again on a smaller scale of something like rightmove.co.uk
Would want the same sort of thing, but for the letting/estate agent businesses instead of hotels.
Most of the domains I was thinking of are available but I don't want to register them if the project would simply cost me too much to do.
Thanks in advance............
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