Grenada Hotel and Tourism Association announce development plans for a Travel Destination Portal Website to benefit GHTA member organisations and Grenadian tourism in general.
The new website will enable visitors to book and pay for their entire trip itinerary to Grenada, Carriacou or Petit Martinique, to include flights, accommodation, vehicle hire, restaurants, activities, excursions, events and more. Each GHTA member business and service will have their own dedicated area of the site in which they will be in control of their own content. The website will also contain a vast amount of general tourism information regarding the islands.
GHTA has appointed Centrum New Media of London, England as the project development partner who will also integrate the website into the Travelocity Partner Network to facilitate bookings and payments on tourism services. The website will therefore be exposed to some of the world’s largest travel and leisure networks and is scheduled for launch in the latter part of 2009. In addition Centrum New Media will perform a re-brand project for the GHTA for simultaneous launch with the website.
GHTA Executive Director, Pancy Cross, said; “We at the GHTA are very pleased to announce this project which aims to boost the profile of Grenada, Carriacou and Petit Martinique as a travel destination, make it easy to book a trip to our islands and empower local tourism services in their sales, marketing and representation. We felt that this project was necessary since tourism is of course Grenada’s primary export, and the internet is becoming more and more prevalent in terms of enabling travellers in their plans. Between ourselves, Centrum New Media and Travelocity we have a very well balanced team to deliver this and put Grenada in a stronger position to benefit from the global economic recovery that we are now seeing the first signs of.”
Matt Garbutt of Centrum New Media, said; “We are very pleased to have been awarded the contract to develop this website and very excited to now get down to work on it. We, and the GHTA, have spent a great deal of time in planning and investigating options, and believe we have arrived at the best solution to fit both parties. Providing Grenada with a tool with which it can advance its largest export business is something that we relish and is an incredible incentive.”
Further information:
GHTA
http://www.grenadahotelsinfo.com/
