Right now, there's a lot going on with the V3 accommodation booking system. It has been taken up by a number of large companies in the past few weeks - Total Travel have come online and WhatIf are coming soon. For those of you that don't know, V3 is a real-time availability search and booking system. You can have it on your computer for roughly £380 for 2 years which to me seems the bargain of the century. Integrating it with your website will cost you a few bucks with your website designer but you can do it in two steps - the first step would be just to put the link button to V3 on your site; the second would be providing branding files to V3 so that there are links back to your own website from the booking system and so that the booking system looks like an extension of your own website.
What you have to remember about anything like this though is that if you're website cannot be found on Google because it's performing poorly in the rankings then there's really not much point. It's a good idea to get a professional search engine optimisation company involved in moving your website up the rankings before or at the same time as you go ahead with adding new functionality. Currently, in Mission Beach there are very few accommodation providers who have their sites optimised so there is a hole in the market to be filled - get your site on the first page of Google and reap the benefits of your real-time availability booking system.
