Welcome back everyone to the Boosely Podcast. This is the podcast that gives you the listener,

the tools, the tactics, the training, and most importantly the confidence so you can go out there

and get yourself more direct bookings today. We've got the Spotlight series and this is where we

focus on people, services, products that can help you as a host. My name is Liam Carolyn and we're

talking all about direct bookings today with our very special guest. We've got Chris Walker. He's

the CEO of direct booking tools. You can go and see directbookingtools.com as you want to see

their website and it's a tool which basically is aimed to really help your guests make the right

decision and come and book direct with you. So I'm not going to give more away than that. Let's dive

into it. Welcome along Chris. Thank you Liam. Pleasure being here. Thanks for having me.

Whereabouts in the world are you at the moment and where's the business based? We're located in a

rough place called Hilton and South Carolina. It's actually a beautiful resort community in the

states. Actually just became a renamed number one resort island of the US. So it's not a bad spot to

be. Nice nice and I mean obviously I've had a look at the the business and I'm excited for

people to understand what it is and how it can help them but from the top if you give us like

the elevator pitch what is direct booking tools? It's quite simple actually. It's something that's

been done in the hotel industry for about 10, 12 years now when they came out with the price

comparisons for room nights. No one's been able to do this for the vacation rental industry so we

spent about 18, 24 months in development and came up with a way to where we could show the public

the the price differentials between booking direct versus the OTAs. As you can see behind me that's

a direct pricing that was generated on the product. It shows up on the property manager's website.

The traveler when they look to book any particular property for any given date range this product

goes out gets that direct total price out the door pricing for the for the property and shows it

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