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Happy Halloween

Bookdirect with your favorite hotel and avoid Hotel Reservation Nightmares.

Bookdirect, so efficient, it’s scary!

We’ve moved!

Our head office address is:

801 Eglinton Avenue West, Suite 406, Toronto, Ontario, M5N 1E3

Our telephone, fax, website, and email addresses all remain the same.

CrewStay featured in Low-Fare & Regional Airlines Magazine

CrewStay was featured predominately in an article in the Feb/Mar 2011 issue of Low-Fare & Regional Airlines Magazine.

Click HERE to view the Article online on the Magazine’s website.  

Below is a copy of the specific article about Crew Logistics titled “Crewed, yet sophisticated”

CrewStay featured in LowFare & Regional Airlines Magazine

BOOKDirect Hotel’s in Canada by Province

With thousands of hotels in Canada listed in Bookdirect, you can easily find hotels in the BOOKDirect Network.   You can go to http://Canada.bookdirect.com and then drill down by province.  Or you can go directly to the hotel listings per province by going to
<province name>.bookdirect.com.  Here’s a listing of the Canadian Provincial BOOKDirect Network with links:

Alberta hotels	http://Alberta.bookdirect.com
British Columbia hotels	http://britishcolumbia.bookdirect.com
Manitoba hotels	http://Manitoba.bookdirect.com
New Brunswick hotels	http://newbrunswick.bookdirect.com
Newfoundland hotels	http://newfoundland.bookdirect.com
Northwest Territories hotels	http://northwestterritories.bookdirect.com
Nova Scotia hotels	http://novascotia.bookdirect.com
Nunavut hotels	http://nunavut.bookdirect.com
Ontario hotels	http://ontario.bookdirect.com
Prince Edward Island Hotels	http://princeedwardisland.bookdirect.com
Quebec hotels	http://quebec.bookdirect.com
Saskatchewan hotels	http://saskatchewan.bookdirect.com
Yukon hotels	http://yukon.bookdirect.com

With BOOKDirect, making Hotel reservations is RISK FREE as the booking is between you and the hotel directly.  We never charge your credit card in advance and any cancellation fees are subject to the hotel’s own policy and would be billed directly by the hotel.

Find out why we offer the best rates online –> http://bestrates.bookdirect.com

Bookdirect powers online hotel reservations for Manorhouse International

Manorhouse International, an organization developing a global identity,  marketing, and operational tools for Bed and Breakfasts, and Small Inns worldwide has chosen Bookdirect to power online reservations for their site and for their member properties.

For more information about Manorhouse International visit www.manorhouseinternational.com

BOOKDirect Hotel Reservations now live in Canpages

 

Bookdirect.com Hotel Reservations system is now live in Canpages.ca.    Bookdirect provides the ability for one to view rates and availability and make secure bookings in real-time.  

 

What makes Bookdirect unique is that we get rates directly from the hotels and/or their central reservations system.   We can confidently say that rates found in Bookdirect are some of the very best that you will see available ANYWHERE (see http://bestrates.bookdirect.com for more information).    

Bookings made through Bookdirect are risk-free as the hotel bookings are made directly with the hotel and at NO TIME do we charge the hotel guest's credit card.   Nor do we charge any sort of cancellation fee - so they are free to cancel any booking without a penalty (subject to the hotel's own policies relating to cancellations). 

BOOKDirect offers an affiliate program called Partners in Profit.   BOOKDirect has access to over 80,000 hotels worldwide.  We enable website owners to integrate hotel reservations within their own website as either a private label or co-brand.    If you are a website owner and interested in earning additional revenue from hotel bookings visit http://partnersinprofit.bookdirect.com.

About Canpages:

Canpages is Canada's fastest growing local search company. Providing a multimedia platform that focuses on relevant, local results, Canpages offers many choices with online, print and mobile options.  

Canpages.ca is Canada’s national online directory for local business and residential searches. In excess of 3.5 million unique visitors come to visit the site every month with their local search requests.

Rich and relevant local content sets Canpages.ca apart from other directories, including photos, videos and other immersive media.  Canpages’ robust online directory combines comprehensive data and a unique user experience with maps and satellite images provided by Bing.

With 84 print publications and over 55,000 customers, Canpages reaches more than 8 million households and businesses across Canada. Canpages publishes local telephone directories across Ontario, BC, Quebec, Alberta, the Yukon and Northwest Territories.

Canpages offers advanced mobile search technologies and multiple search possibilities with free text messages to mobile phones, mobile maps, direct SMS search and advanced WAP and iPhone mobile browsing experiences.

Canpages Inc. is owned by HM Capital Partners. Within one year of acquiring the company in 2006, HM Capital Partners invested more than $110 million into growing its Canpages’ operations and markets.  Headquartered in Vancouver, Canpages employs 700 people and has offices in Alberta, British Columbia, Ontario and Quebec.

Bookdirect Halloween Theme Banner Ad

Dusting off from the archives our annual Halloween themed banner ad…

“Avoid Hotel Reservation Nightmares…  boo… bookdirect with your favorite hotel.

BOOKDIRECT – It’s so efficient it’s scary”

Bookdirect has created a facebook app to search rates and availability and make bookings at over 75,000 hotels within facebook.  The app can be found at http://apps.facebook.com/bookdirect/

We have also created facebooks apps for individual hotels.

Check out:

Albert at Bay Suite Hotel, Ottawa - http://apps.facebook.com/albertatbay

Best Western Victoria Park Suites -  http://apps.facebook.com/victoriapark

If you are a hotelier and you are interesting in a turnkey booking engine app for your hotel in facebook - please send email to sales at (@) bookdirect.com

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Bookdirect has also created facebook widgets for an affiliate site - we have created a hotel search tool and a hotel listing tool for Ottawahotels.com.  

See http://apps.facebook.com/ottawahotels  and http://apps.facebook.com/ottawahotelslisting

Announcing bookdirect b2b

Bookdirect b2b - a business to business solution for travel agencies and major corporations to manage hotel contracts and hotel bookings.

Some of the features of bookdirect b2b include:

• Hosted solution tailored to a client's specific destinations and contracted properties

• Supports defining hotel contracts, and alternative properties

• Rapid booking functionality for individuals and groups with virtually an unlimited number of guests booked at once with support for unique credit card per hotel guest or utilizing a single corporate credit card for all guests.

• Real-time access to contracted rates, corporate rates, net rates, and BAR (Best Available Rates)

• Real-time comparison of BAR rates to contracted rates and ability to book lower rates if available

• Real-time GDS Contract Rate Auditing

• Real-time Online Reservations Reporting

• Automated reporting via email

• Compliance enforcement to enforce the booking of contracted properties and contracted rates

• Compliance tracking supports Sarbanes Oxley adherence

• Supports the creation and management of block room space (advance room blocks).

• Supports live bookings via the GDS as well as direct to hotel via fax or email

• For non-GDS bookings, hotels can directly update confirmation numbers in system

• Protects against duplicate bookings and no-shows

• Can interface with client's internal systems via webservice

• State-of-the-art online support system

• Highly Secure

Bookdirect Launches a travel deals site

Bookdirect has launched a travel deals website that can be found at http://deals.bookdirect.com

The site will be regularily updated with hotel and various travel deals so be sure to check back frequently of subscribe to an rrs feed from that site.   http://bookdirect.typepad.com/deals/index.rdf

Hoteliers wishing to have deals posted to that site should send email to support@bookdirect.com