Internet Ticketing System Passengers Participants •Schedules; •Tariffs; • Discounts; • Seats. API Other systems Coach Operator Coach Terminal Coach Operator Why to participate? • • • • Extended presence on the European market; Increased visibility of your services; Risk free new distribution channel; Increased number of the coach transportation passengers; • Cutting edge technology to promote your services; • New cluster of customers – trend setters; • New media marketing for free. Hesitations • I can loose passengers loyal to my brand! BUSEUROPE.EU explores brand new cluster of passengers. Loyal passengers will continue to purchase tickets via your established distribution channels. • I don’t want to support my competitors! You don’t support your competitors: you do not spend any resources, but you support coach transportation industry development and increase it’s share in overall passenger transportation. Thus increasing numbers of your own passengers. • I’ve spent a lot of resources to establish my own brand and website and I don’t want to lose this advantage. BUSEUROPE.EU does not act as a substitute of your brand, but as an agency to offer your services under your brand. Promotion • Target market - active internet users, high mobility people, concerned about safety and ecology friendly. • Promotion channel – Internet: buseurope website, social networks, regional and theme web-portals. Among planed promotion actions: • Active SEO work; • Target market oriented internet ad campaign; • Google Adwords; • Active promotion in social media; • Publicity campaigns in internet-media. Current status • Buseurope.eu is up and running from 1.06.2011 • We sell services from more than 40 coach operators; • We offer more than 1300 destinations in 19 countries: –Austria; –Belarus; –Belgium; –Bulgaria; –Czech Republic; –Dania; –Estonia; –France –Germany –Great Britain; –Holland; –Hungary –Italy; –Latvia; –Lithuania; –Poland; –Russia; –Slovakia; –Ukraine. Next steps • • • • Attract new participants; Promote buseurope.eu among potential passengers; Develop new system functionality; Develop mutually beneficial relationships with the providers of other tourist services; • Establish relationships with regional coach transportation ticketing portals. How to join? • We’ll be glad to welcome you in our community. • Two easy steps are necessary to join buseurope.eu: – Sign our standard Agreement; – Let our professionals to talk to yours to integrate systems;