I have written in the past about my dislike for daily deal sites.  If you’re interested you can read my articles on Tnooz.com.  I think they have some significant flaws and, despite their incredible hype, have yet to prove they are a profitable and sustainable business model.  That said, if you do it right, you [...]

For most Rezgo members, the concept of creating a standardized set of XML messages for the distribution of tour and activity data probably sounds like gobbledegook.  For data geeks and standards enthusiasts like the team behind Rezgo, this is a huge milestone in the march towards making small businesses a more visible part of the [...]

Are you wondering why your customers just aren’t booking on your website and you’re not sure what to do about it?  Building a website for your tour or activity business is hard enough but now you have to worry about conversion ratios, click streams, page views, exits, and all sorts of other stuff.  At the [...]

We are happy to be participating in another Thack event, this time in Boston on September 15-16 at the Google/ITA campus.  Unlike previous Thack events, this one will be a marathon 24 hours long from start to finish.  Bring on the Red Bull and pizza!  Here is some information that you may find useful if [...]

We are delighted to announce our partnership with our friends at Much Better Adventures (www.muchbetteradventures.com), a social enterprise set up to promote locally owned, independent businesses in the adventure travel industry. Much Better Adventures put adventure seekers in direct contact with independent providers in adventure hotspots around the world and are offering a unique opportunity [...]

Thank you for doing what you do! Last month, we celebrated our 4th birthday. It’s been an amazing few years and we’re excited to be helping so many really cool businesses like yours. We ran some numbers and found out some pretty amazing things. Why not check out the post and infographic that we created [...]

If you were wondering where the Rezgo WordPress plugin disappeared to for the last few days, you aren’t the only one.  We were surprised to find our plugin removed from the WordPress plugin directory because it violated one of the rules of the directory.  According to this site, which we found after the plugin was [...]

In just 48 months, small tourism businesses using Rezgo, a leading cloud based tour and activity booking system, have generated more than US $40 Million in online bookings. With annual growth of over 150% that number is expected to grow to US $60 Million by 2012. On July 7, 2011 Rezgo celebrated its fourth birthday. [...]

Well, it’s now official.  We are very pleased to be an industry member of the Adventure Travel Trade Association.  As far as memberships go, we are pretty picky about the organizations we decide to join (which is why we are not members of very many).  We’re really passionate about what we do and in order [...]

As a tour and activity business, you are a perfect target customer for the likes of Groupon, Living Social, or any one of hundreds of other daily deal websites popping up on the Internet everyday.  But be warned, the daily deals business can be a real nightmare for your company if you are not careful.  [...]