USA Resort Rentals, a Barefoot portal partner now working with Revelation Consultancy
August 18, 2011– CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA – USAResortRentals.com (USARR) a leading distribution channel for vacation and resort rental management companies has entered into a partnership with Revelation Consultancy, LLC, a global resort, private club, hospitality and residential real estate business consulting firm. The Utah and Florida-based consultancy will focus on strategic sales and marketing initiatives such as further development of the company’s website and building brand awareness to resort operators worldwide.
“We are excited to be working with Revelation Consultancy on the enhancement and expansion of the USARR brand,” said USARR CEO John Wade. “The firm’s extensive knowledge of mixed-use resort real estate and experience in hospitality operations, resort sales, marketing and branding provides us with a competitive advantage that will ultimately allow us to accelerate the growth of our business.”
According to the 2008 PhoCusWright study, the vacation rental market represented over 20% of hotel and resort revenue and 8% of the total leisure travel market in the United States, and is a rapidly growing segment of the travel industry. Online research and bookings executed directly by consumers represents a market that is evolving and rapidly growing. The Vacation Rental Management Association (VRMA) projects that the vacation rental segment is on target to garner 14% of all vacation accommodations in 2011.
“USARR is poised for tremendous growth and is well-positioned to significantly increase the number of qualified vacation rental buyers that it delivers to its rental management partners,” said John C. Tolbert, Principal of Revelation Consultancy. “We have already prepared several enhancements to the website’s utility that will improve the search experience and create the ultimate user environment for buyers and partners.”
Dennis O’Neill, Founder of USARR added, “Collaborating with Revelation Consultancy has fundamentally strengthened our talent base. All forecasted product enhancements for USARR translate to success, in terms of benefiting travelers and current and prospective partners, as well as increasing market share while sustaining the long term growth of the vacation rental business.”
About USARESORTRENTALS.COM
USARR is the premier vacation-planning source for hundreds of resort destinations and thousands of vacation homes in the United States, Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean and the Bahamas. The easy to use website facilitates the time consuming search for your vacation and resort rental with a state-of-the-art feature that permits resort owners and managers to quickly post and revise resort and vacation properties. For more information on USARR please visit www.usaresortrentals.com or call (866) 397-3232.
About Barefoot
Barefoot is a leading provider of browser-based reservation and asset management systems in the vacation rental industry. It has the distinction of being the first browser system in the industry, the first to provide online booking, tenant, owner access and to offer social media tools and is designed to be tailored to meet clients’ exacting needs. Barefoot is also the only system with a full Customer Relations program wrapped into the program, which in effect makes it the only full service system in the industry. Founded in 1998, by leading technology and industry players, the “.NET platform” has become a standard for those who are trend setters in the industry and those who desire to dominate their market with unique functionally. For more information, please contact Edward Ulmer at 603-428-6255, ed.ulmer@barefoot.com.
