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    Re: Tourism Minister invites ideas!

    HarryS...I didn't mean booking.com.
    Booking.com (Bookingsuites.com) unfortunately took over many of the hotelier's main websites...confusing people and not really providing fair service. This has happened all over the world not just in Negril. Booking.com did a he** of a sales job on these hotels.

    Negril videos site was never completed even close to accurately and any updating seems to have stopped around 2011.

    Some of the smaller properties may not have a strong presence merely because of their size or business situation...they're not ever going to be heavily mentioned anyways.

    As far as the properties you've mentioned...without going into inappropriate detail, most are small family run properties or because of their business situation prefer to operate via word of mouth.
    La Kaiser...has been closed for well over a decade.

    If there's any other properties...I'd be happy to check on them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bnewb View Post
    HarryS...I didn't mean booking.com.
    Booking.com (Bookingsuites.com) unfortunately took over many of the hotelier's main websites...confusing people and not really providing fair service. This has happened all over the world not just in Negril. Booking.com did a he** of a sales job on these hotels.

    Negril videos site was never completed even close to accurately and any updating seems to have stopped around 2011.

    Some of the smaller properties may not have a strong presence merely because of their size or business situation...they're not ever going to be heavily mentioned anyways.

    As far as the properties you've mentioned...without going into inappropriate detail, most are small family run properties or because of their business situation prefer to operate via word of mouth.
    La Kaiser...has been closed for well over a decade.

    If there's any other properties...I'd be happy to check on them.
    I'm sorry... that's kind of an odd response... "without going into inappropriate detail"? These are hotels we're talking about, that presumably would like to rent rooms to people. I guess I don't understand "the runnings" if a hotel would rather stay vacant and hope they fill up by word of mouth, or stay empty.

    La Kaisers, I thought it looked nice? Didn't appear to be a closed hotel? Sure, it looked empty but I typically go in the offseason... Odd that it appeared to be in decent condition if it's been closed for a decade.

    My original comment was because there is a wide range of quality when it comes to the websites for hotels and resorts, and in this day and age a subpar web presence is business suicide. Websites without pics from this decade, websites without pricing, websites that are hard to navigate, or are lacking in basic information. No way to book directly through the hotel, and having to use booking engines I've never heard of, or have never used before? Not going to happen for me or for most anyone else.

    Same with restaurants. Many don't have websites, or menus, or anything. It seems like Business 101, yet many businesses in Jamaica don't seem to get it? If you have a hotel, how hard would it be to add the menu to your restaurant to the website? For a small restaurant, would it be impossible to at the very least have a robust Facebook page with updates and menus and specials?
    Last edited by HarryS; 10-09-2016 at 08:58 PM.

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