Soccer World Cup lodging websites, why should home owners list with you?
12. Jan, 2010
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Previously I did a blog post titled ‘Where are the 2010 soccer world cup fans, private property owners?’ where I highlighted the mushrooming of accommodation portals ‘promising’ to help private properties secure bookings. Match Hospitality, the FIFA appointed booking agency, only handles graded hospitality establishments.
Home owners are offering their homes to visiting soccer fans for a fee and are looking for service providers who will bring them those soccer fans. It is therefore important for service providers to declare how they’re able to get soccer fans through their websites.
Equally important, is what these service providers are charging home owners? This will guide home owners to know if it’s a ‘Return On Investment’ to list with a particular lodging portal. Over promising by service providers and under delivering is a sin in my books…
Am inviting ALL 2010 accommodation websites, to introduce themselves and let home owners know what is unique with their offering compared to other service providers.
Please answer in full (will not publish incomplete questions) the below set of questions on the comments section…
QUESTIONS
1. What is your website address?
2. Your full-name and relation with the website?
3. What do you offer?
4. How do you get soccer fans into using your website?
5. What do you charge home owners?
6. How many home owners have you listed already?
7. How many of those have you already secured bookings?
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My name is Muzi Mohale a full-time travel blogger, your host at Travelwires.com responsible for all editorial on this blog. I blog about the travel and tourism industry in Africa. Apart from blogging about tourism, I also run 
Good Question Vuzi; one no one has answered. There may be more of these listing websites and portals than accommodation. Every day we get invited to list with a new one. What happens to http://www.bestsocceraccomodationinsouthafrica.co.za after July??
That is the point Dennis, I'm aware that there is a flood of these websites. I'm trying to let these operators open their cards and declare what is on offer. My guess is they'll disappear after the world cup since they came into being exclusively for the event.
My recent post Global travel trends for 2010 according to Rhino Africa
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