MyBoracayGuide.com Online
Greetings from MBG!
After 200,000 hotel reservations and 800,000 guests since 2007, MyBoracayGuide Online is making big changes!
Agoda, Booking, and other big OTAs have great programs, websites, technology, channel manager compatibilities, and hotel programs. Their power is awesome! Rather than compete, MyBoracayGuide will now cooperate!
MyBoracayGuide.com website has been replaced with a modern responsive, Agoda/Booking integrated online hotel booking engine.
Updating rates, telephoning for availability, manual vouching and guest confirmations, modifications, cancellations are administratively heavy; and the ‘upon request’ business model is obsolete.
By partnering with Agoda/Booking, MyBoracayGuide can now exclusively focus on what we are good at: Marketing and bringing in guests!
MyBoracayGuide has over 1,000,000 quality website visitors per year, and we will focus on content, good information for the guests, and bringing reservations to our partner hotels.
B2C – Direct Online Rates
Online Reservations that come in through our website will now come from Agoda/Booking directly. Payments, Rates, Availability, Commissions are directly between the hotel and Agoda/Booking, and you can deal directly with them. Please make sure you are giving them great rates! J
We continue to have huge presence and contact with the guests, and we will continue bring reservations to our partner hotels. We are simply passing over the actual reservation process to Agoda/Booking.
We are currently split testing our two new powerful booking engines. Check it out!
Agoda/Booking Meta Search Booking Engine
http://hotel.myboracayguide.com/hotels/results/?refid=7606&city_id=800019071#p1
Booking.com Customized MBG Integrated Reservation System
http://hotels.myboracayguide.com/searchresults.html?city=-2436593
B2B – Offline Rates
MyBoracayGuide has a large number of travel agency partners and ‘business to business’ clients. This is an area we have been growing over the last 6-12 months with a limited number of hotels, and we will be looking to expand our Hotel Partners. We would like to focus our direct guests to a limited number of hotels that would like to offer MBG an allocation and special rate.
If you are currently a B2B partner with MBG, more information to follow on expanding to this program.
If you are looking to join this program as a new signup, please see more information here. Our goal is to funnel and focus our guests into partner hotels that want to use MBG as a special “source” of steady discounted reservations. This system is now successful, and as we close B2C accounts, we will be opening new B2B accounts with select hotels.
B2B will be a priority business element and focus for MBG growth, and we look forward to cooperation!
Legacy Accounts
MBG has thousands of arrivals that will continue to check-in over the next six months. All current BR0000 reservations will operate normally, and all reservations remained confirmed. MBG will simply not make new reservations under this system.
By January 2017, the majority of our Legacy reservations will have departed, and we will close all B2C Partner Hotel accounts and zero out the balances. A little patience here as we have 150 partner hotels with large numbers of reservations on the books please.
Effective immediately, all new reservations will come with Agoda/Booking vouchers.
Existing Confirmed Reservations will operate normally.
MyBoracayGuide and the future
Google is rewarding our new content and information based website, traffic is increasing, and we have a plan for growth. With over 1M+ visitors per year, MyBoracayGuide.com is an important resource for guest hotel selection.
We need to focus on content and information; and of course on guest acquisition.
In line with this, we need your help. We are updating, renovating, and beautifying all our Hotel Guide Pages.
If you are currently listed on MyBoracayGuide, we would appreciate your assistance by completing the following survey. You know your hotel best, and we are going to make the Hotel Guide Pages awesome. Currently these are version 1.0, but we will improve and evolve them over time. We can add value and detail here that big OTAs cannot, and we are looking forward to the ultimate Boracay Hotel Guide.
*** Boracay Hotels: Please do assists us by completing this survey https://www.myboracayguide.com/hotel-guide-pages ***
If you are not currently listed on MyBoracayGuide, please send us an email.
First we are going to perfect our existing pages, then we are going to open it up to all Boracay Hotels.
Finally
MBG has had an excellent run over the last decade working directly with hotels under our ‘upon request’ model. A huge thanks to everyone!
We need to make these changes so we can focus on growing and building, rather than trying to ‘keep up’ with very powerful big OTA.
Mostly we are looking forward to adding big value to our hotel partners again.
Thanks everyone!
Michael and MBG Hotels Online