Dear Travel Agent
We are a small Bed and Breakfast offering a place to get away from it all, Tranquil and quiet. Please if you are asking about bookings and a place to stay, read about us, understand the different cabins we offer and the services we are able to offer and that which we are not able.
Travel Agents: we ask that you not just request a place for your clients, on MP or CP basis. We are for business and relationships and have nothing against commission. However we need you to understand what type of place we are and to have a long term understanding with us. Our place is not for everybody.
We ask that travel agents follow this example for bookings: note we don’t offer commission on the first two clients you send. Once we understand that you as a Travel agent understand us and what we are doing and send clients that would appreciate our place we offer an understanding of ongoing relationship that equals more than most give in commission, but it means we have a long term ongoing relationship.
Example: Accumulate 6 Cabin nights (Cabin nights – means number of nights in a particular priced cabin) – ie: first booking is Cabin 1 for 2 night, next 1 night in Cabin 2, next 3 nights in Cabin 1 – that is 6 nights. The seventh night booking is Free. And so on – you accumulate again.
This basically means you are committing to a long term relationship and sending clients that appreciate and understand our place. If by chance you don’t tell your clients about our place and they come, imagining all the services of a resort, then we have not accomplished our goal – as we say often: our place is not for everybody – the ones who appreciate it really appreciate it and usually come with a knowledge of the place. The ones who don’t, were likely not informed about the place.
If your first question is what is your TAC, when making a booking for the first time, we wonder about your thoughts for a long term relationship..
An example of a request for stay –
Hi: This is ________________, we would like to know if there is availability for our clients in one of your cabins at MaplePine Farm Bed and Breakfast. The clients name is _______________ and he or she is aware about your place. The number of adults will be ___, and children ages _____.
We have looked at your website and would prefer Cabin ______, if it is available – if not you could suggest which cabins are available.. As for food for the client, they will have dinner on the day they arrive and again we have seen the choices on your website and would like order a _________________. Thanks you, and look forward to your response.