Friday, May 23, 2008

19.04.08 – An online revolution?

Those of you that have been following our progress over the last few years will know that our business is slowly changing as the web plays an increasingly important role in our bookings. Last year we introduced online booking and it has slowly been growing to the point where this year we have taken the decision to make ourDublin tours exclusively available online as that way in these days of spiraling costs we can keep our prices as keen as possible. The reason our tours are so competitively priced is that we do not employ huge numbers of staff or directors and we do not offer commissions to third parties – what you pay comes to us! You might be surprised at how much of what you pay larger companies goes on commissions, lavish brochures etc etc. So we hope that our little business can compete with the big boys and win on the fairest sales market of all – the World Wide Web.

We would love to hear your thoughts on this but when we were discussing this decision we thought of the budget airlines – who would imagine we could travel to England for less than fifty euro 10 years ago? When we first moved to Ireland we were paying at least eighty nine pounds! We are not getting into the green issues here but the reality is people are traveling more and demanding better value so hopefully small enterprises like us can prosper. So look out we are becoming a lean green touring machine!

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