Customers

Ski Banff-Lake Louise-Sunshine

Company Profile:

Founded in 1978, Ski Banff-Lake Louise-Sunshine is a partnership of the 3 ski resorts in Banff National Park: Ski Banff @ Norquay, Lake Louise and Sunshine Village. This destination marketing organization promotes these three world-class ski resorts and the charming mountain towns of Banff and Lake Louise as a single winter vacation destination in the Canadian Rockies. Their reservations department offers customized, inclusive ski vacation packages including air, lodging, lift tickets, lessons and other activities.
Ski Banff-Lake Louise-Sunshine
SkiBig3 Vacation Section
www.skibig3.com

 
Ski Banff-Lake Louise-Sunshine
 

Scenario:

SkiBig3 was in the process of redesigning their website, and they wanted to update their site to make it more interactive, competitive and compelling to use by their customers. SkiBig3 wanted to provide its customers with the convenience of online booking but, until this year, had only given their customers the ability to fill out a Vacation Request Form that would then have to be manually built by their reservation agents.

Software and Services Used:

ResLogic's Travel Reservation System
ResLogic's Internet Reservation Engine

I'm Amazed!
" I'm amazed!...wow they are pouring in!!" was Cathy Geisler's, SkiBig3's Director of Operations, initial reaction two days after ResLogic's Internet Reservation Engine was first launched from their website. Not only was Geisler pleasantly surprised with the number of online trip quotes being generated, but she was even more surprised at the number of bookings made online without the customer talking to a reservation agent during the process.

Improved backend efficiencies
SkiBig3 Vacations would have had to hire additional reservation agents to have manually created the thousands of trip quotes that were created automatically online by the customers themselves. Not only is this saving SkiBig3 in salaries, it's giving the consumer a convenience and tool that they want.

Seamless Website Integration
ResLogic worked directly with SkiBig3's website designers to integrate the Internet Reservation Engine into their new website's design and navigation. The modular design of the Internet Reservation Engine allows for a tremendous amount of flexibility when it comes to design and layout of web pages. Many of their original static product content pages have been replaced by the IRE's new dynamic content engine.

Specials Deals
According to Geisler, the ability to easily "promote and fulfill deals" was a key factor for them in deciding to use ResLogic's Internet Reservation Engine. SkiBig3 also uses the specials in the system to track specific advertising campaigns.

Tour Operator Channel
SkiBig3 also handles lift ticket and lesson sales for ski tour operators offering their destination. They will now be able to offer their tour operator customers the ability to privately login-in and book their lift ticket and lessons products using a tiered pricing model online using the Internet Reservation Engine.