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PowerTOUR,
The Cherniak Software Tour Arranger, is a complete turnkey system
with an exceptional user interface. It can help you gain more control
of your operation, provide better service to your clients, and improve
your bottom line.
PowerTOUR
makes organizing tours a pleasure. Whether the tour is a `Group
Tour' (where one must track individuals and people travelling in
the same party), or a `Club Tour' (where the travel service is concerned
mainly with the group as a whole), this system has all the ingredients
for success.
The Group
Tour Management module includes Tour Setup, Booking, Billing,
with extensive reporting and all fully integrated with Mailing List
Management, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, and Word Processing.
One can take care of all the minute details required to make sure
that each trip runs smoothly.
These include:
- Setting
up Each Tour
- specifying
the destination and start and end dates
- identifying
which agent is responsible for the tour
- identifying
escort(s)
- specifying
departure points
- specifying
how many rooms of each type (single/double, economy/first
class, etc.) are available, and whether more are available
- pricing
by room type and extra services (e.g. single supplement, pickup,
extra hotel, etc.)
- free
form comments
- Setting
up Bookings
- identifying
the tour and the customer
- reserving
a room
- setting
up flight arrangements to gateway departure points
- making
arrangements for pickup by limousine
- pricing
by room type and extra services (e.g. single supplement, pickup,
extra hotel, air fare for special arrangements, refrigerator
in room)
- specifying
`Bill To' arrangements (interface to A/R)
- free
form comments
- Tracking
Who Needs a Partner to Share a Room
- Maintaining
Waiting Lists (by tour)
- Printing
Invoices (and posting to A/R)
- Mailing
Lists: the system allows the names of people who make enquiries
to be added quickly to the mailing list, so that both information
covering specific requests and promotional materials can be sent
to them on a regular basis; the system sorts by postal code to
reduce costs.
- Streamlining
Cancellations so that all the paperwork is done to collect outstanding
amounts from the customer or the insurer.
- Reports
include:
- alphabetical
tour rosters
- room
lists
- limo
pickup lists
- lists
showing special flight arrangements
- labels
for tour correspondence to participants
- Management
Information:
- a monitor
on current tours (e.g. # of bookings vs. # of spaces available)
- an
analysis of past tours (by destination)
- analysis
by customer: identify your best customers and give them special
attention
- an
analysis of promotion strategies
- ability
to access the database with various report-writers
The Club
Tour Management module allows one to set up complete tour
packages and to make variations for each tour for each club group.
This module as well is tightly integrated with Accounts Receivable,
Accounts Payable, and Word Processing.
The Accounting
modules are very comprehensive, and are strongly integrated with
themselves and with both Tour Management modules. For example,
- Invoices
from the Tour Management systems (Group and Club) are automatically
posted to A/R
- Invoices
from suppliers may be charged to particular tours (as can payments
to suppliers), thus providing the system with a summary of expenses
by tour.
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