It won't get any higher than this, expects Erik Kroon (owner of SOS Events in Uddel). With his Klimbos in Garderen and rental shops with special transport equipment, he started offering his services online six years ago. That as many as 83% of bookings now take place online is something he couldn't have imagined beforehand.

Everyone should be able to book online
Erik's vision is simple: everyone should be able to reserve their services online. Has a reservation been made? Then a week before the activity takes place, the customer receives tips and various upsell opportunities via e-mail. Think combination with other activities or picnic options along the way. "Currently, we are even investigating the possibility of combining activities with an overnight stay. That would be a win-win situation for the tourist and various entrepreneurs in the area."

Booking online only brings advantages
Kroon finds that more and more businesses are realizing the benefits of being bookable online. "When customers purchase your services or products online, the phone rings a lot less often and you don't have to answer many emails in the evenings. You basically keep time, so you can engage in your business. And that's what it's all about! In addition, you have more certainty that the customer will actually show up, because they have paid in advance. So only benefits."

While the advantages for businesses are clear, the high percentage shows that customers also like to book activities and tickets online. Although, according to Kroon, this is partly because his customers are rewarded when they book online. For example, with a discount on the entrance fee or free coffee/tea or an ice cream. "This, of course, is not unique. Amusement parks have been using various online promotions to fill up their parks for some time now."

100% online sales are not possible, according to Kroon: "You always have customers who plan an outing on the spot or still prefer to book by phone or mail. Of course we are happy to assist them then. The only difference is that they are not offered a discount and may even have to pay money in the future for handling the reservation. In this way we also try to get the doubter to book online."

Expand your reach with the Front Office App
In addition, Kroon also offers its SOS Events offerings through the Front Office App. A unique concept where accommodation is linked to activities in order to reach the tourist together. With the Front Office App, hotels and bungalow parks can sell the services of SOS Events online to their guests: through the reception or through their own website.

More information about the online booking possibilities of the Front Office App? Then take a look at the following website: www.rentseedo.com/nl/over/front-office-app

A particularly nice partnership is a fact: Arrangementenweb is going to use LeisureKing to optimize its online services even more. Arrangementenweb was already greatly appreciated in the past for its targeted arrangements around the holidays. And now they are expanding this with multiple portals, with of course other services and activities, to offer even better deals to the visitors of their sites.

For example, high teas and activities around hotels and restaurants will soon be cleverly combined using LeisureKing. In doing so, LeisureKing will ensure that the services and activities can be booked and paid for online.

LeisureKing users can of course also use the successful platform of Arrangementenweb for free. Another great way to come to the attention of potential clients on a no cure no pay basis.

It is impossible to imagine a region without Go-Kids as a platform for all kinds of fun, child-friendly places and activities. With 15 different regions, they are now the largest player in the Netherlands. Thousands of families and children's outings are found through the website. A professional organization that takes marketing very seriously.

Through the website of Go-Kids and with the help of LeisureKing, several attractions can already be booked and paid for online. So the link between Go-Kids and LeisureKing is a fact. And that is also good news for other users of LeisureKing!

Would you like your activities to appear on the Go-Kids website? Sign up via Go-Kids and feel free to indicate that you are a LeisureKing user. This will make you even faster to book through this site as well and reach thousands of additional potential customers.

Last Monday, April 3, it came out that the data of 450,000 lottery participants had become insightful due to a security breach. It turned out afterwards to be an investigation, but it does make you think. After all, the convenience and speed of booking online comes with a rapid exchange of personal data. What is being done to protect your personal data?

At LeisureKing, we take the protection of personal data seriously. Therefore, we do not collect more data than we actually need. For more information about this, please read our privacy policy. In addition, our payments are made through Pay.nl. As a payment provider they collect and manage the financial data. Pay.nl has a strict and controlled privacy policy. Curious about their policy? Read it here.

Business and customer data is collected in LeisureKing. But how do we ensure the security of this data? And what can you do?

A strong password is one of the basics. Did you know that 99% of all weak passwords used can be aggregated to a list of 10,000? To achieve a strong password, it is important to use a combination of uppercase, lowercase, numbers and numeric characters. In addition, you can change letters into numbers, for example, v3r4nd3r3n.

Changing your password regularly can strengthen data protection. We would note, however, that it often brings convenience. If you do it, make sure the renewed password is as strong as your previous password.

Only use the password in one place. Many parties are moving to an e-mail address and password as login. This quickly makes you dependent on the reliability of the external party, because what are they doing with your password? At LeisureKing, we therefore only collect usernames.

At LeisureKing we use personal 2 factor authentication. This means that if someone forgets their password, they have to contact LeisureKing personally. After verification, one of our employees will provide access to the account after which a new password can be created.

Unique username and password for each user within your LeisureKing account. Often passwords are shared with third parties, for example between colleagues. A colleague should have their own username and password with which they can log in and perform certain actions. Should there ever be discussion about an action performed, this can be traced.

No more rights than necessary. Within LeisureKing you can specify for all users within your account which functions they have access to. For example, you can ensure that a cashier has no insight into the statistics.

We hope that after reading the above information you have a better understanding of the security of your data. In addition, we are curious about your answers to the following questions.

- Do you use the password for other login data as well?
- Do you use one login for multiple users?
- Don't your users have too many rights?

Can't you answer all these questions with no? Then try to follow the tips above. We are happy to help you with this!

Watch our videos on changing user settings and chatting via the online helpdesk.

It is April 1, 2020, and you are walking along the promenade of your vacation village. The stores have remained largely the same over the years. Souvenir shops, eateries, ice cream stands and an English pub fill the streetscape. You only miss one kind of store: the one where you used to book your activities. If you walked in there there was always someone, a man or woman, sitting there from 9 a.m. until late at night. Always waiting for tourists, who spontaneously or purposefully wanted to do a fun activity during their vacation. You might have booked a tour boat there to watch dolphins or rented a car to explore the area. Booking such an activity would always take about 20 minutes. And you were given a written receipt as proof that you had paid. The next day you were picked up at your hotel, your receipt was your ticket and the adventure could begin.

But in 2020, where did those ticket shops go anyway? First things first: isn't it weird that you leave your hotel and go on a boulevard to find a shop where you can buy tickets for activities? Of course, it is not weird to walk on a boulevard, but at the reception of your hotel you may have also asked where you can rent a car or what activities you can do in the area. So why can't you handle this at the front desk? Why do you have to go to another location to book activities? Why can't the front desk staff book or reserve the ticket or activity for you? Surely they have already given you information?

Another example that may be much more imaginative now: in 2006 (yes, it wasn't that long ago, mind you), if you went on vacation, you booked your trip through a travel store. You would get advice on which hotel would suit you and the employees would search through thick books of travel suppliers with you for the right vacation destination. Once on your trip, you would be welcomed by the tour guide at the hotel and given a welcome drink with, of course, a sales pitch about activities and excursions in the area. Not to mention the necessary advice on where to safely rent a car. With the tour company you booked the tickets for activities you wanted to do, because this was safer (and often more expensive, but we took that for granted). Nowadays you buy your tickets easily through a ticket shop. Meanwhile, the world has changed and travel agencies have disappeared from the scene....

But soon the ticket shops will no longer be there either, because the tickets for activities (from attractions to your rental car) will simply be arranged through the hotel reception or through the campsite receptionist. You will soon book your tickets online through the site of your lodging or cruise ship. You buy ready-made packages in advance including a bike, activity and theme park ticket.

With the Front Office app of RentSeeDo.com, a marketing platform of LeisureKing, this is already possible. There are already many hotels and bungalow parks selling tickets of local attractions, museums and activities to their guests through this app. The location itself decides which tickets it wants to offer and makes the commission deal itself, creating a revenue model. The Front Office app is easy to use and is seen as the gamechanger in reception and ticketing land.

Enjoy the boulevard and your vacation and soon arrange all your activities easily and quickly via your stay or in advance via www.RentSeeDo.com.