Using the Listing Manager, you can search our data base of over 300 accommodation directories by the following categories:

Category

This is a general description of the market the directory serves.
* A business directory is a very broad directory advertising a wide range of business sectors.
* A travel directory is a directory that offers in addition to accommodation also other services such as car hire, flights, tours, packages and general travel related information.
* An accommodation guide is a directory that mainly focuses on showcasing establishments.
* All other categories are for directories that advertise a very specific product type such as backpackers, health resorts, golf lodging, gay oriented and disabled oriented travel.

Language

Directories with additional languages other than english generally attract more international visitors than directories only in english. In addition, if you are able to converse in any other language, you can use this as a selling point to attract more international visitors to your establishment.

Region

This search option indicates the area that is covered by the directory.
* Regional: directories in this category typically cover a tourism region, town or province. This is the most targeted way of advertising and generally returns the highest conversion rates.
* National: directories in this category are advertising establishments all over South Africa. To keep it simple, we have included in this categories all African countries.
* International: directories in this category are advertising establishments world wide.

Booking

This search option provides you with more information about the way in which bookings can be made:
* Enquiry based: In this case, clients will enquire with you first to confirm availability and rates, before making a booking.
* Online booking: In this case, the directories offer a real time online booking facility allowing guest to search, book and pay immediately. These directories either offer their own online booking facility or make use of integrated online reservation systems such as Nightsbridge, Prebook, Res24Seven, etc.
* Optional: Some of the directories allow you to choose your preferred booking procedure or offer both options at the same time.

Payment

This search option indicates the way in which the advertising company is re-imbursed for their marketing services:
* Free service: Listing on directories offering free service is completely free of charge, you will pay neither an annually subscription nor a commission on confirmed bookings.
* Subscription: These directories charge monthly or annually subscription fees. In many cases, there are various listing options which attract various listing fees.
* Commission: These directories charge a commission between 10% - 30% on confirmed bookings. Sign-up is free in most cases, some however charge a once-off sign-up fee.
* Optional: These directories offer you to choose to either pay a subscription fee or a commission on confirmed bookings. In some cases, both options are available at the same time, depending on the way in which a visitor makes his reservation. Please note that in some cases, there are differences in the ranking of your listing and functionallity that will be available to you. Take a clsoe look!

Traffic

The traffic rank is based on aggregated historical traffic data from millions of internet users and is a combined measure of page views and users so that the rank of a site reflects both the number of users who visit that site as well as the number of pages on the site viewed by those users. Sites with relatively low traffic will not be accurately ranked. Generally, traffic rankings of 1,000,000 and above should be regarded as not reliable. Conversely, the closer a site gets to #1, the more reliable its traffic ranking becomes. In our rating system, a traffic rank of less than 50,000 is considered "high" compared to a traffic rank of more than 1,000,000, which is low. A traffic rank of 100,000 or higher means thousands of visitors and generally thousands of enquiries.

Rating

Although the traffic rank is the baseline for our rating, the final rating of each of the directory is based on a complicated calculation of many factors. Accommodation only directories attract more targeted traffic, so do South African only directories. However, directories offering various other languages generally attract more international visitors. Other factors are user-friendliness of a directory and of course the marketing that goes into the directory and the brand name of a directory. Our rating is there to help you to identify where you should focus your marketing activities and budget.