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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 [...]

Added brand awareness & supplier demand cause surge in tour operator software adoption. For the first five months of 2011, Rezgo has tracked a record breaking number of new sign-ups for the cloud based software as a service tour and activity reservation platform. Compared to the same period in 2010, Rezgo saw an increase in [...]

I think it is fair to say that when your Facebook App gets installed by 42 companies and sees a 7950% increase in interactions in two weeks, it’s a hit.  Since the app was relaunched on March 23rd, many Rezgo members have added it to their Facebook page and started driving revenue to their booking [...]

Rezgo Sponsored Industry Research Estimates Tour & Activities at $27 Billion For as long as there have been tourists there have been tours, tour guides, and destination based activities.  Unlike the more commonly known travel segments like flights, hotels, car rentals, and cruise, the in-destination tour and activity segment is dominated by very small businesses.  [...]

We’re happy to announce that we’ve just completed the integration of three additional payment gateways into Rezgo.  The new supported payment gateways are: NAB – National Australia Bank Transact – Australia PayTrace – USA PayToStay – South Africa The payment gateways are available in the Payment Methods section of the Rezgo settings.  When you select [...]

The Rezgo printable booking voucher is an important part of the booking process and, for many Rezgo members, an integral part of the payment and tour redemption cycle.  In an effort to improve and simplify the processing of guest for Rezgo members, we have made some important updates to the Rezgo booking voucher layout and [...]

For the search bookings query, ‘price_range’ has changed to ‘price_labels’ and ‘price_range’ has now become the parent node of the second ‘date’ element. Current search bookings example request … http://xml.rezgo.com/xml?transcode=XXX&key=XXX-XXXX-XXXX&i=search_bookings&q=XXXXXXX Would respond with the following XML response (this is only the affected node) <price_range> price_adult, price_child, price_senior, price4, price5, price6, price7, price8, price9 </price_range> <date [...]

You can now post your tours on any website using a single line of javascript and/or custom css styling (if you’re feeling adventuresome). The widget is very flexible and allows you display tours based on the following criteria: Specific tours (based on tour SKU). Tags (these are the tags that you assign to your tours) [...]

We just pushed out a Rezgo hot fix today that features one bug fix and three cool new features.  The bug is related to a problem with the geo-tagging of tours.  The bug wouldn’t allow you add a geo-tag to the tour that you were either adding or editing.  This bug is now fixed and [...]

Yep, that’s right, we have just released our first, very simple (yet powerful) iGoogle Gadget.  The Rezgo Check-in Voucher gadget gives you the ability to check-in a customer’s voucher directly from your iGoogle home page.  The beauty of the iGoogle gadget is that it also works with the mobile version of your iGoogle page.  Here [...]