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The Tourism Engine™

The Tourism Engine™ runs a DMO. It's a platform of integrated best-of-breed technologies to plan, execute and measure leisure marketing and destination sales. It's the most configurable and capable product designed for the unique needs of travel and tourism businesses. CRM, Email Delivery, Advertising, Welcome Center, Fulfillment, Lead Nurturing, RFP and Proposal Delivery, Marketing Automation are all integrated to deliver a single platform for all a DMO's needs. It includes the Tourism Intelligence™ software.

What's Running Your DMO?

Dozens of States, DMOs, Attractions and Resorts have chosen the Tourism Engine™ for their marketing platform. Their work drives Tourism. The Tourism Engine™ is what they use. Imagine if you could harness their efforts in a more efficient way. That way is a Tourism Engine™. A Tourism Engine™ is a technology bundle that makes your work more efficient, more effective. Destinations that use a Tourism Engine™ get more results from their budgets, their resources and their people.  

A Tourism Engine™ is a powerful, flexible software bundle that handles the primary functions of a DMO. It's built on Customer Relationship Management as a foundation. Since every traveler is a person, being able to provide personalized service is essential. The Tourism Engine™ takes publication requests and sends them to fulfillment. It automates the workflow of sending them a confirmation and notifying staff for follow up. It captures their interests and preferences to customize communications. It sends these Leads to Industry Partners. A Tourism Engine™ has multiple touch points. It takes requests from the web, Call Centers, Welcome Centers or other systems (e. g. reservations). The Tourism Engine™ has email delivery services to provide bulk releases as well as transactional emails. 

The Tourism Engine™ captures Conversions. When it does that, it captures marketing data. It identifies the marketing effort that produced the Conversion. It's like turning on a lightbulb. It's not enough to just handle the transaction. You've got to help DMOs monitor their efforts and create rich data to measure performance. 

Capabilities

DMOs who need a powerful and flexible marketing platform use the Tourism Engine™. It automates their marketing transactions creating rich data and monetization channels. A transaction is any individual interaction with your target audience like inquiries, emails, reservations or content delivery. It's built on scalable, robust tools used by large companies that need high volumes and mission critical reliability.

Web To Lead

The Tourism Engine™ receives all your Leads. Any web-based form, Visitor Guide Requests, Reservations, Emails, Social Media, can be captured by the Tourism Engine™. It de-duplicates the Lead and consolidates the Behaviors.

Workflow Automation & Auto Response

While email confirmations are the most common form of Workflow Automation, any transaction can trigger events. Alerts, Time-Based communications data updates are some of the more common forms.

Batch Processing

In addition to the real-time services, the Tourism Engine™ can process batches by the minute, hour all the way up to year. Batches are a great way to send Leads to Industry Partners, deliver invoices, send reports or perform data cleansing. They are driven by the data configure in the web-based interface. And they have error handling with alerts.

Fulfillment

Batches are created daily (or by bulk rate limits) and delivered to mail solutions as prescribed. If you need confirmations for circulation in advertising contracts, Tourism Engine™ can automate getting postal confirmations.

Industry Partner Reporting

Automate the monthly reports that go to Industry Partners. If you have an extranet, they can get that information and query their activity. Your sales team and staff can also see the activity enabling them to support, sell and administer.

Data Extensibility

Transactions are captured in Profiles and Behaviors with some standard fields like name, email, address and the rest. You can add custom fields to Profiles and Behaviors to capture unique data like Interests, Audience segments or communication preferences.

Cloud Based

Your data lives in the Amazon Cloud. That means anything with an internet connection can send transactions to the Tourism Engine™. As the industry develops new technologies and what's next, your options for integration remain open.

Service Level Agreement

The Tourism Engine™ will be available 99% of the time except for planned outages. Our staff is available from 8 am to 5 pm MT by phone 855-466-3969 or email (help@internethoney.com). Cases will be addressed within the hour but problem resolution may take longer depending on it's complexity.

Includes

The Tourism Engine™ requires an annual commitment and is billed monthly at a flat rate or based upon transaction volume. Prices include training, importing historical data and all standard components.

  • CRM
  • Email Delivery
  • Lead Nurturing
  • Marketing Automation
  • Intelligence
  • Soical Media Connections
  • Advertising Management