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Monaker Groups Booking Technology Unlocks Specialty Lodging Inventory
Monaker Groups Booking Technology Unlocks Specialty Lodging Inventory.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n \n \n Monaker Groups Booking Technology Unlocks Specialty Lodging Inventory\n \n \nMonaker Groups Booking Technology Unlocks Specialty Lodging Inventory\n\nNew-to-Market Timeshare and Resort Properties Now Available for Vacation Rental\n\n \n WESTON, FL--(Marketwired - Apr 26, 2016) - Monaker Group (OTCQB: MKGI), a technology-driven travel company, today announces that its proprietary timeshare booking engine has been integrated into the Company's flagship booking platform, nexttrip.com, as NextTrip Resorts.\n This enhancement will now allow timeshare owners and/or property managers to post their unused resort properties into nexttrip.com's vacation rental inventory under NextTrip Resorts. These properties usually consist of suites with a living room, bedrooms and full kitchens at beautiful resort properties around the globe. Consumers will now be able to make real-time bookings or make offers on the amount they wish to pay to book a property.\n The NextTrip Resorts platform is ground-breaking for the manner in which it allows timeshare owners the ability to market their unused timeshare, fractional, condo-hotel units to travelers. Today's integration of NextTrip Resorts provides a number of unique advantages with a particular focus on resort properties.\n The NextTrip Resorts Platform:\n \n \n Gives timeshare owners access to a large scale travel distribution platform allowing them to market their property and capture income when not using it\n \nOwners can add/edit properties, monitor bookings and rent otherwise vacant properties\n \nVacationers gain access to high quality vacation suites with numerous amenities at high-end resorts worldwide.\n \nThis largely untapped inventory is estimated 19 million rooms of which roughly 25% go unused.\n \n \n Now that the platform is launched NextTrip will begin to aggressively pursue timeshare resort owners, developers and property management companies to access global, large-scale rental inventory for vacationers. Initial commitments and property offerings include inventory from Mexican resorts in beach destinations such as Cancun and the Riviera Maya, European inventory in destinations such as Greece, and resellers of inventory with product on a worldwide basis. In upcoming weeks, Monaker expects to obtain additional commitments from national hospitality companies and independent ope...