The concept of advertising and marketing of vacation rental properties has been revolutionized with the popularity of the Internet. On Villa-World for example, you can provide comprehensive details about your property, display full-color photos, rental rates, show the property availability calendar, see what guest have written in the guest book and provide links to other local travel information and even book the property on-line directly with the homeowner and all this to a global market place.

As an owner, you have several options for advertising your property. You could print a brochure or advertise in a newspaper or even create and maintain your own Web site which would give you complete control over all aspects of your Internet advertising. However, whether you develop the site yourself or employ a team of web developers it can be a costly and time consuming business to build a web site, especially one that has a Management Booking System that provides online booking and automated communications such as can be found on the Villa-World site.

Another option is to list your property with Villa-World and take advantage of a website that was designed with a host of practical and functional features that make this site stand out from the rest.

Villa-World sets new standards in web marketing and was specifically designed with property owners in mind as the ultimate vacation rental site. More than three years of design and development have been undertaken to ensure that this site addresses all of the requirements that owners? have in order to ensure their home is presented in an uncomplicated professional manner, resulting in a constantly booked property.

Other options include:

As a property owner you can choose to advertise on just one vacation rental website, but because advertising on the web is so cost-effective, it makes perfect sense to advertise on two, three or more sites. Very often visitors looking for a rental property usually visit more than one site?so you can cost-effectively multiply your booking potential by listing with other sites.

Villa-World is more than just a brochure for your home, but is also a pro-active marketing solution designed to put your properties in front of a world-wide target audience and offers advertisers some of the most comprehensive, innovative and powerful features that can found anywhere on the web and includes some of the following features:

• Comprehensive Property Management module.
• Universal online personalized inquiry/booking management and reservation system that has been carefully thought out and designed especially to cater for the needs of vacation rental properties, B&B?s country inns, guest houses, lodges, cabins, historic hotels, small resorts, guest ranches, farmhouse accommodations, and working farm and ranch vacations with setup pages for each individual property and the facility to export a link so that a third party site can access the Villa-World diaries, guestbook and on line booking system via an unbranded page thus eliminating any objection from a third party site owner that the homeowner is linking to a competitors site.

FEATURES OF THE BOOKING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM INCLUDE

• Booking Management (manage bookings on the property).
• View Inquiries (manage inquiries on the property).
• Property Calendar (view and edit the availability calendar).
• Guestbook (view and edit the properties guestbook).
• Manual Booking (add a manual booking to bypass the system).
• Address and contact (setup primary and secondary contact details).
• Documents & Letters (setup up of property specific letters and documents. Templates also included).
• Terms & Conditions (This document should take into account all your rental policies that apply to your home).
• Rental Rates (Flexible rate table for setting up as many rates as you wish to publish).
• Additional Rates (charges that you may levy for services that you offer your guests).
• Tax Rates (setup applicable tax rates for the property).
• Deposit(s) (setup booking and/or security deposits).
• Due Dates (setup dates for the system to check and calculate late payments etc.)
• Payment details (Setup your payment methods).

• Free online universal availability calendar with both individual and global property calendars (if you have multiple properties) with the facility to link to a third party site.
• Free online universal guest book with the facility to link to a third party site. .
• Simple and effortless procedure for the uploading of up to 13 titled photo images automatically sized and sent direct to your web page.
• Unlimited, password protected instant editing of your property description, rates, amenities, images and any other information.
• Sophisticated inquiry handling, with a built-in automatic response.
• Instant previewing showing you exactly how the design and text layout of your easy to read personal web pages will look prior to you making payment for publishing.
• Facility to print a full detailed color brochure showing page layouts and photographs.
• Tool Bars that give you the option to personalize your individual web pages by using text sizing, colors, bullet points, web links and other features.
• Detailed web statistics and hit counters.
• All past enquiries archived and available for you to review easily and quickly.
• Flexible rate tariff screens that allow you to publish as many different rates as you wish and all shown in your native currency with a real time online currency converter for renters.
• All rental enquiries forwarded up to three different private email addresses.
• Each individual property submitted for indexing by search engines.
• Easy to follow step by step guide to help fill out the required information.
• Message forum for users to discuss any topics or questions they wish to address.
• Property for Sale module. (with transfer of registration)
• Full support from our team to help should you require assistance.
• Extremely cost effective and economical way of advertising your property with no set up, management or hidden fees.