Welcome to 4pi Concierge™ - the revolutionary new product designed specifically to support the online marketing activities of convention visitor’s bureaus (CVBs) and travel destination (DMs) sites. At Blue Canopy, we’ve taken marketing online to a whole new level by allowing visitor’s to your site an innovative way to experience e-travel. With 4pi Concierge, your web site unlocks a world of opportunity to traveler’s around the world.

Travel Facts*:

• The average stay of a hotel/motel/B&B trip is 3.9 nights
• 66% of E-travel consumers do more than half of all trip planning on line
• Over half of those trips include a hotel/motel/B&B stay
• Over half of online trip planning is searching for lodging (53%)
• Those who book leisure travel on the Internet spend an average of $2,146 per year online for travel products and services
• 33.3 million adult travelers say they bought a travel package within the past three years
• One in five travelers contacted a city, state of country’s tourism office to get information about a destination that they planned to visit or about flights, hotels or other travel services in the past year
• In total 19% of travelers visited a website to obtain travel information in the past five years
• While many travelers used mixed media (newspaper, Internet, television travel shows) to plan their travel, 24% say that the Internet is the most useful to them
• 67% of online travel bookers used the internet to make overnight lodging reservations

*(Travelers Use of the Internet, 2004 Edition, E-Travel Consumers: How They Plan and Book Leisure Travel Online, Domestic Travel Market Report, 2004 Edition.)

These statistics mean one thing – if you’re not planning now on how to capture the fast growing market of E-travelers, you will lose opportunities for promoting both tourism at your destination and increasing revenue opportunities for your site members. (More…)