Increasingly potential customers looking for vacations and accommodations are shopping online. Gone are the days when consumers had to rely on tourist and resort brochures along with the advice of the local travel agent when planning a holiday. With the internet in virtually every home, people have access to more travel information than they could ever use. Many vacation prospects want to avoid the telephone calls and the human element and cut to the chase. In a nutshell, they want to see what is available, establish the cost and then, book and confirm online with their credit card. Services that are ahead of the curve, that provide consumer choice and offer a variety of resort and vacation options with quality assurance, online availability and settlement, are preferred by web savvy travellers.



Reservation services that allow one-stop shopping for planning an online vacation provides travellers with a way to book travel simply, quickly, and with assurance. Systems like this allow people looking to book a vacation with association-wide online availability and settlement capability among any of the member resorts. This allows customers to book reservations and pay for them directly from the association web site. As an added benefit, online reservation systems like this rank resort members by priority based on customer keyword searches such as "ski resort within 2 hours of Toronto". Resort packages or vacation experiences will then appear along with links to resort profiles and images.

Booking a vacation online through an Ontario resort reservation service like this provides peace of mind. Quality assurance is achieved through Canada Select or CAA inspections, and all member properties maintain very high standards as measured by independent nation-wide accommodation rating programs.

When people are booking a vacation online, they want ease of use and assurance. Ontario resort reservation systems make it easier for travelers to research and book a Canadian resort vacation, and teaming up with Canada Select and the CAA are good moves for Ontario resorts and their client base. Reservation systems like this provide a way of telling customers wherever they are that the member resorts are committed to giving a quality Ontario-Canada travel experience."