NEW YORK -- SpaQuest, an online reservations system for spa
vacations, introduced a travel agent partnership program offering
increased commission and other perks to help broaden agents'
business.
Under the program, travel agencies that become Preferred
Agencies are provided a link from their own Web sites to SpaQuest's
reservations department, offering 24-hour real-time reservations
capabilities.
The link is free to all agencies and maintains the individual
agency's logo and contact information at all times. For agency
sites requiring customized links with navigational capabilities,
there is a one-time charge of $39.
The link has been offered to agencies since spring 2001.
SpaQuest wanted to help agencies market spas more aggressively,
according to Sharon Ulrich, vice president of partnerships, and
devised the second level of the partnership program: Select
Agency.
Those agencies with Select status receive the Spafanatic
newsletter once a month, which can then be sent out to the agency's
own database.
Every link within the newsletter retains the agency's code, so
that when clients have questions, the agency is contacted and when
bookings are made, the agency is credited.
The opening page of the newsletter can be customized by the
individual agency for a personal message to its database, for
promoting special deals, for instance, Ulrich noted.
Select status is priced at $99 per year or $14.95 for individual
issues of Spafanatic.
All bookings made via the link to SpaQuest's reservations
department, either from the agency's site or the newsletter, pay
11% commission to agents.
SpaQuest pays 10% commission to agencies not participating in
the partnership program.
For information, visit the SpaQuest Web site at www.spa-quest.com or
contact Ulrich at (800) 772-7837, Ext. 231.