Online Bookings & Channel Management

Online bookings & choosing a glamping channel management system

In the digital age we now find ourselves in, it is absolutely crucial that you offer some kind of online booking service for your glamping business. Don’t worry though, you certainly don’t need to design your own and there are a number of great booking services that you can link to your website.

If you’re going it alone in your new glamping venture, you will need to sign up to one of the many channel management systems. Channel management systems allow your site to be listed on multiple channels (websites like booking.com or glampingly for example) without the need to organise all those different calendars yourself. It means you have a much wider net for catching customers. 

For those not working with big brands that have their own booking systems like Wigwam® Holidays, using a channel management system is the only way to go but it is not without its problems. For a start, you will need to pay for that system on top of the commission charged by each channel (up to 20 percent in some cases). Additionally, many of these channels also require extra admin at your end. 

With a franchise like ours, yes you pay ten percent of your total turnover but that’s it - you don’t need to worry about additional commissions on individual channels or charges for a booking system. 

What’s more, unlike these booking channels, we offer so much more than just a booking system or well marketed website in return for the ten percent. For our ten percent, you get community, training and the ongoing support of the UK’s number one glamping franchise. We are there for you through the good times and the bad - we are business partners and our success as a brand is reliant on the success of each and every site. Together, we are very much stronger.