HAPNZ and Seekom join forces

HAPNZ and Seekom join forces

Seekom has been nominated as the preferred channel manager provider to members of the Holiday Accommodation Parks Association of NZ (HAPNZ).

HAPNZ chief executive Fergus Brown said Seekom was chosen as the preferred channel manager supplier because it is NZ-owned-and-operated and already has an excellent relationship already with a number of the association’s members.

“It was quite logical to choose a supplier who had already a successful track record,” Mr Brown said.

The announcement was made at the HAPNZ conference, held in Rotorua in June. Seekom director Simon Casey said he was delighted to be given this endorsement.

“We are committed to helping all HAPNZ members grow their bookings by being better connected to their sales channels.

The association is now working hard to encourage its members to take on distribution technology, in order to work with sales channels such as Wotif, the AA and Jasons.
With a channel manager holiday parks can link to almost an unlimited number of sales channels. Those who connect to these channels can increase the number of bookings by as much as 30 percent.

Currently sales channels will not accept a property if it can’t provide instant confirmation availability. To provide this the property can either manually log into the sales channel and update each sales channel with that information or use a channel manager to do this automatically on their behalf.

A channel manager can provide updates around the clock and will notify each sales channel of a change of availability immediately so the integrity and accuracy of the information is high. It can also provide more timely updates but allows a property to work with an unlimited number of sales channels.

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