A Bookable Travel Website is one of the best investments any travel agency can make. It can lead to very high profits, from very little resource and investment when compared to opening and managing a new branch. It gives you flexibility to grow and develop your business while the costs stay the same.

In this time of economic difficulty, many business managers feel that a website is a sound investment to secure their company. In many ways they are right! A website does open up a new, very large arena of distribution for your products. You can reach customers all over the country/world, that would never have visited your shop nor heard about you if it wasn't for your website.

When ordering a travel website one of the most important decisions you will need to make is whether to make you website bookable. It may seem that the obvious answer is, if you can afford it go for a bookable travel website, and if you can't afford it, don't. This is a common misconception, and there is a lot more to consider when making this decision other than your budget.

When designing the system we felt that it was important to look at the travel back office systems our competitors had written, and ensure that Mercury Office was well ahead of them. We are a small company, with much smaller marketing funds that our competition, so we try to score points ahead of them by building our reputation on quality, and personal service. So we were determined to make our travel back office system increase this reputation.

Many travel technology companies are now offering free bookable travel websites. This sounds like a great deal, to good to be true, after all something for nothing can't be bad. But there's a catch.... a big catch!

There are many myths about websites that may be putting some people and businesses off having one. Below are just a few of the myths we've heard before, and reasons why these shouldn't put you off.

Perhaps the biggest obstacle in selling our bespoke web development, is to help business understand when and if they need it. It's so often the case that a business is operating tasks that are mondane and repetitive. These are exactly the kind of tasks that could be performed by a bespoke web development.

The first and most important software for any travel office is a front office system. Often referred to as a 'database system', every travel agency needs to record customers' details and details of their travel booking.

It's getting easier than ever to connect to the internet and to start browing websites. There are also now more and more people that are technology savy, and browse the internet on a regular basis.

Search Engine Optimization is as important for you website as the design and build of the website itself. There's no point in spending your money on a great website when no one's going to see it.