Phocuswright selects LeisureLink to present the company's latest travel innovations that are shaping the future of the vacation rental industry
(TRAVPR.COM) UNITED STATES - November 11th, 2015 - LeisureLink™, the industry leader in vacation rental distribution and technology, announced today that CEO Julian Castelli has been selected among the top travel industry innovators to present its latest advancements at Phocuswright’s Travel Innovation Summit. The two-day summit showcases the next wave of transformation in travel technology and takes place in Hollywood, Florida.
LeisureLink has been at the front-line of vacation rental industry innovation since 2007 and has delivered over $1 billion in bookings to its property manager clients. The Company connects its clients with the largest network of top distribution partners, collectively reaching 80 million monthly travelers. Leisurelink serves over 1,000 property managers with over 200,000 commerce-enabled vacation rental units.
“This opportunity provides us with an unparalleled platform to demonstrate our innovation and share our vision with industry leaders,” explains Julian. “Today’s vacation rental market is exciting and dynamic, but not without its complications - especially for property managers. As the distribution landscape continues to evolve in complexity, creating new challenges for property managers, we are crafting solutions and expanding partnerships that allow our clients to benefit from the growing global interest in vacation rentals.”
The Travel Innovation Summit has a long history of identifying companies that are transforming the landscape of the travel industry. An elite team of analysts carefully selects a handful of global innovators to demonstrate applications, technologies and solutions with the potential to shape the future of travel planning, purchasing, and sharing. At this year’s highly anticipated Phocuswright event, LeisureLink will reveal their most compelling new products including their mobile app and recent automated key-level connectivity to Airbnb, Booking.com, Villas.com, and VacationRoost.
Attendees of the upcoming conference are invited to schedule a meeting with the LeisureLink team by contacting sales@leisurelink.com. To learn why more vacation rental companies trust LeisureLink for online distribution, revenue management, booking engines, and reservation services to increase bookings, profits and efficiency, please visit http://content.leisurelink.com/demo-land-page or call 1-855-840-2249.
About LeisureLink (www.leisurelink.com)
Salt Lake City-based LeisureLink’s distribution services offer vacation rental properties the opportunity to distribute to top online travel agencies like Expedia, Booking.com, Airbnb and HomeAway; all the major GDS players and top travel sites. Suppliers can manage their online distribution from one platform – optimizing rates, availability, specials, and content changes. Leisurelink’s specialty consulting services leverage industry experts who understand travel distribution and maximize revenues. LeisureLink consolidates all accounting, payables and receivables with a single, source of payment, providing clarity to the often-complex world of distribution. This comprehensive service helps LeisureLink clients generate more bookings and save more time. For more information, visit LeisureLink.com.
About Phocuswright
Phocuswright is the travel industry research authority on how travelers, suppliers and intermediaries connect. Independent, rigorous and unbiased, Phocuswright fosters smart strategic planning, tactical decision-making and organizational effectiveness. Phocuswright delivers qualitative and quantitative research on the evolving dynamics that influence travel, tourism and hospitality distribution. Their marketplace intelligence is the industry standard for segmentation, sizing, forecasting, trends, analysis and consumer travel planning behavior. Every day around the world, senior executives, marketers, strategists and research professionals from all segments of the industry value chain use Phocuswright research for competitive advantage.
To complement its primary research in North and Latin America, Europe and Asia, Phocuswright produces several high-profile conferences in the United States and Europe, and partners with conferences in China and Singapore. Industry leaders and company analysts bring this intelligence to life by debating issues, sharing ideas and defining the ever-evolving reality of travel commerce. The company is headquartered in the United States with Asia Pacific operations based in India and local analysts on five continents.
Phocuswright is a wholly owned subsidiary of Northstar Travel Media, LLC.
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