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Go Languedoc can help you get additional bookings for your vacation rental property. Go Languedoc specialises in advertising small to medium sized gites, apartments and villas in Languedoc-Roussillon.
In addition to our main business of short term holiday rentals, we are also developing our long term rental offering. We have seen an upward trend in the number of enquiries for long term rentals over the past 12 months and we talk to all of our owners about the potential for this rental option.
How it works?
Cost
 low commission There is no advertising charge for appearing on www.golanguedoc.com. We simply charge a 10% booking commission only when we have secured a booking for you. Most of our owners build our commission into the advertised price for their vacation rental - this way they get extra bookings for free!
For Long Term Rentals we charge a flat fee of €200.
Bookings
All payments are made direct to you (unless you prefer us to receive the money on your behalf). We handle all the initial booking administration and availability enquiries. Once you have confirmed your availability and we have a firm booking, we hand everything over to you to finalise the reservation details. We will send you an invoice for our commission 10 days after the booking confirmation.
How to list your property on Go Languedoc
It is as simple as a, b, c!
We do as much as the work as possible to save you the trouble. If you already advertise your property on the web, just send us a link to your property page.
We will transfer the information and images direct from your property page. We will also write additional copy for your advert to make it more "search engine friendly". This will increase the chances of your property being seen on the Web. If you are just beginning to advertise, we will work with you to generate the advertising copy and we can come and take high pixel digital images suitable for the internet. (Also see our article Tips on Marketing your Property).
Once we have done our bit, we will ask you to read through all the details to make sure everything is accurate and you are happy with the way it looks.
Availability
 The key thing for Go Languedoc is to keep the availability calendars up to date. We get more booking enquiries for houses with completed calendars, than for houses with empty calendars. We know that it is difficult to keep all the details current if you appear on more than one rental site, so we try and take on as much as this work as possible.
Either we can take the information dirct from an on-line availability calendar for your property or we can update your Go Languedoc availability calendar as and when bookings come through for you. We will email you at the start of each month to capture any new bookings that you have.
Contact details
 We are also trying to speed up the response time to booking enquiries. Our experience shows that we have a conversion rate of 1 booking to every 5 enquiries. On average customers make enquiries for at least 3 different properties at the same time, so the quicker we can get back to them with confirmation of availability, the better our conversion rate is. Our aim is to respond to 90% of enquiries within 3 hours and 100% within the same day. If we are not in our office all email enquiries are patched through to our PDA phones. We always double-check with you first before we confirm a booking.
We are now able to send SMS text messages straight through to your mobile phones and many owners are finding this the easiest method to confirm bookings when they are out and about. Our quickest ever response time was 26 seconds! If you still prefer to receive emails that is fine, but if you would like us to also send you text updates just send us your mobile phone number with country dialing code and we will update our system.
Go Languedoc has been in operation for 18 months. It was established by Iain Laverock and Jane Wilson to market holiday rentals properties in the Languedoc region. Since its creation, Go Languedoc has grown in size and currently advertises around 150 properties in Languedoc and the South of France. As we are based here in Languedoc we are able to take advantage of visiting properties personally and writing accurate profiles, as well as to write numerous tourism articles to promote holidays in the region. We are finding increasingly that potential holiday bookers are writing to us direct to ask for advice on where to stay and what to see and do.
Go Languedoc: new and improved
In the last few months we have given www.golanguedoc.com a total overhaul to improve its search engine efficiency. The results have been dramatic. The site has also benefited from a facelift and we have added lots of tourist information articles about the region, the local wines, the food and activities for visitors.
Advertising
As well as the search engine optimisation work we have done to drive traffic to our site, we are also listed on a number of directories and specialist travel websites. At select times we also utilise specialist sites such as www.lastminute.com, www.laterooms.com, www.ebay.com, etc to publicise special offers and raise interest in specific properties.
Languedoc-Roussillon
From the information we have seen, the Languedoc-Roussillon region seems to have got its marketing act together by joining the "Sud de France" brand initiative. We are hoping that with the regions' profile being raised in this way and the poor weather this summer across the North of Europe, that next year will be a strong year for bookings in Languedoc-Roussillon.
What Go Languedoc can do for you?
 Go Languedoc can help you get additional bookings for your rental property, hotel and chambres d'hote. We work with you to create attractive pages to entice visitors to come and stay with you. We also provide you with a website report twice a year that includes visitor statistics to your own property pages and general information about visitor traffic on the site.
The future of Go Languedoc
By the end of 2008 we will have an entirely French version of Go Languedoc (www.locationsdusud.fr) to capitalise on the estimated 600,000 French , Swiss and Belgium holiday makers that come to the South of France each year (62% of the total visitors to the region). In addition we have also developed a complimentary website (South France Tours - www.softours.com - to market holidays in the South of France and to further promote your holiday vacation rental.
Advertising on Go Languedoc
If you would like to advertise on Go Languedoc, please drop us a short email (email Go Languedoc). We will then get right back in touch with you to start the ball rolling.
Go Languedoc is a trading name of L34Web LLP, a UK registered Company. L34Web LLP is registered with Companies House England & Wales, Partnership No. OC334330 |
