Rentavillas.com Travel Partner Network

The story of the project THIS IS A REQUEST TO FUND SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT OF A SPECIAL SOFTWARE AS SERVICE WEB SERVICE / API INTERFACE FOR USE BY OWNER OF VACATION RENTAL PROPERTIES AND BOUTIQUE HOTELS     The Mission Statement – To become the recognized lead in the global distribution, promotions, and reservations of vacation rental inventory, including but not limited leisure rental villas, condos, apartments, boutique hotels, small inns, bed and Breakfast, independent motels, car rental agencies. In summary we are seeking to become the Vacation Rental GDS (Global Distribution System). Rentavillas PMS and Channel presently interfaces with Expedia.com, Agoda.com and the rentavillas.com family of web site. We are seeking fund to complete a second level of interfaces with Priceline.com, Booking.com and Bookingpal.com. The funds request will 100% complete these three interfaces in a three to five month man hour timeface and allow Rentavillas brand to become the Vacation Rental GDS.Company Information – Brent Lewis is Founder and President of B. Renault and Asociadoshttp://www.brenault.com Incorporated in the Republica Dominicana. B. Renault y Asociados, is a Global Distribution Systems company with a focus in the adult leisure activity business with operations including web sites and management of vacation, corporate, holiday travel rental, sales and services for properties located in the Caribbean islands, St. Maarten, of Netherlands Antilles, and Cabarête / Sosua areas in the Dominican Republic, Its operations include the following; Renault Roberto Companies incorporated in the Cayman Islands, British West Indies. Renault Roberto Companies is internal travel agency, merchant account processor for adult leisure activity business, operations and services owned by B. Renault y Asociados and provides travel agencies related and merchant services for customers of the B. Renault y Asociados, Rentavillas.com™ product line Network Plus Consulting provides off shore software development, consulting, and network services on IBM xSeries Linux and IBM iSeries System i Server (Former known as AS/400) Our skills are unmatched on this platform and include RPG, Java, PHP, Linux, OS/400, JSP, WebSphere, HTTP, and DB2. Products/Services -- B. Renault and Asociados, Rentavillas.com™ property management systems, availability booking engine and reservation solutions allow vacation rental villas, condos, small inns, boutique hotels, car rental agencies and inventory related to other travel related businesses to be marketed and distributed across thousands of travel web sites, travel agents and other distribution channels. How the funds will be used Financial Information – Operations are 100% funded by Brent Lewis: 50K USD invested in the development and promotions of the rentavillas.com domains, 30K in the development of Rentavillas Property Management System (PMS), 20K in the development and promotions of various end user vacation rental domains Summarize future plans – Seeking to apply our concept to the marketplace and direct compete with Homeway.com, Airbnb.com and Flipkey.com in the vacation rental marketplace, and with Booking.com, Agoda.com and Expedia.com in the small hotel market segment.Rentavillas PMS and Channel presently interfaces with Expedia.com, Agoda.com and the rentavillas.com family of web site. We are seeking fund to complete a second level of interfaces with Priceline.com, Booking.com and Bookingpal.com. The funds request will 100% complete these three interfaces in a three to five month man hour timeface and allow Rentavillas brand to become the Vacation Rental GDSFor DEMO = http://brenault.com/site/demo Some of my other work Brent Lewis, Founder and President has 36 years of software development, consulting, engineering and project management, with offices in Las Vegas, Nevada and Rosario, Argentina. In addition, Brent Lewis has started 3 restaurants and owns/manages a number of small hotels, vacation rental villas, condos and apartments, including but not limited to; http://www.lomasmironas.com http://www.perladesosua.comhttp://www.beaconhilltowers.com Challenges ProblemWHAT IS GDS?:Stands for (Global Distribution System) is systems that provides real-time travel inventory information and bookings availability of airlines, car rentals and hotelsThe major GDS players;AmadeusSabreGalileo (Now owned by TravelportWorldspan (Also now owned by Travelport)Each of the four were originally created by various airline companies and are still used by the airlines and also used by 1,000s of online travel related web sites, such as Expedia.com,Travelocity.com, hotels.com and others related online sites, plus is accessed by over 700,000 travel agents. Dependent upon size of the company desiring to access the GDS, you may have a direct relationship with one of more of the four above mentioned players, or more than likely you have to enter the system via one of many levels of resellers of the GDS services.How do the GDS Players and GDS Resellers make money????1. By charging a onetime setup fee to join the GDS family2. By charging a flat monthly fee3. By charging fees for extra services, such as higher placement, web site design, etc.4. By charging fees for various revenue streams, for example there is a higher fee for booking sourced from a travel agency as opposed to a lower free that comes from a booking sourced from an online web site like priceline.comSo a hotel or car rental franchise operator in the GDS who is not large and purchased accessed from a GDS Reseller might pay the following fees;$1,500 one time setup fee8% to of each booking that comes from an online travel web siteAnother 15% if booking came from an agency$ 5 to $10 flat fee for to the GDS CompanyWhereas a large hotel chain or car rental would have a direct interface one or two way interface to the GDS from their own Customer Service and/or Property Management System applications. The four major GDS player charge thousands of dollars for the privilege of interfacing to the GDS with addition sources of revenue for offering proprietary Customer Service, Property Management Systems and other travel related and distribution tools.Given the initial upfront investment, cost to interface legacy systems to the GDS, limitation of existing Property Management System(PMS), ongoing overall software maintenance, leisure rental villas, condos, apartments, boutique hotels, small inns, bed and Breakfast, independent motels, car rental agencies were prohibited from participating in the GDS marketingOur SolutionGiven new technology centered on Web Services and SOA (Service Orientated Architecture), B. Renault and Asociados feel that the cost charged by this larger GDS players are excessive and lower cost profitable services can now be offered to smaller inventory supplies such as mom and pop and independent hotelier, bed and breakfast operators, family motels, independent car rental agencies and individual vacation rental owners.B. Renault and Asociados, Rentavillas.com™ property management systems, availability booking engine and reservation solutions allow vacation rental villas, condos, small inns, boutique hotels, car rental agencies and inventory related to other travel related businesses to be marketed and distributed across thousands of travel web sites, travel agents and other distribution channels content and market awareness of our Online Travel Agency Portal, booking engine, blog.Why NowWe the advent of the internet, new technology centered on Web Services and SOA (Service Orientated Architecture), cost to interface to back end system has been greatly reduced. Back end application such as Reservation Systems (CSR), and Property Management Systems (PMS) are 100% web based (SaaS) application and can communicate to client hardware such as computer, laptop, ipads, iphones, smart TVs, smart phones and other smart device at a fraction of the cost compare to be SOA.Lastly Non-GDS, distribution channels (IDS = Internet Distribution Services) and (OTA = Online Travel Agencies) and brick and mortal travel agencies are now warming up to more leisure rental villas, condos, apartments, boutique hotels, small inns, bed and Breakfast, independent motels, car rental agencies, those include but are not limited to Expedia, booking.com, agoda.com, priceline and othersMarket SizeWith regards to quantity, there are more leisure rental villas, condos, apartments, boutique hotels, small inns, bed and Breakfast, independent motels, car rental agencies in the world then they are large recognized hotels, resorts and large scale franchisors. The leisure rental villas, condos, apartments, boutique hotels, small inns, bed and Breakfast, independent motels, car rental agencies is virtually untapped in regards to a specialized GDS solution, such as the state of the industry Rentavillas GDS and related solution.CompetitionHomeaway is the granddaddy, and it approach of growth by adding content via acquisition of popular web site such as; Cyerrentals.com, GreatRentals.com, A1Vacations.com and about 10 othersNew sexy concepts such as Airbnb, 9flats and other have any the space.However most the content listed on the big players LACK GDS distribution and dynamic real time booking of content like the big hotel chainsProduct and Business ModelWe are an existing small business enterprise that manages and owns vacation rentals, a small boutique hotel and an independent car rental agency. Our startup component and venture is a concept we have labeled “Vacation Rental GDS” Exiting Product line – solutionsRentavillas Property Management Systems (PMS)Rentavillas Global Distribution System (Vacation rental centric GDS)Rentavillas Merchant Account (Credit Card Processing, Payment Processing and settlement)Rentavillas Booking Engine (with option to integrate into other properties web sites)Rentavillas Online Network (Suite of current company owned vacation rental, hotel domain name and those of others in which contractual relationships are form or acquiredRentavillas.com; Our online travel agency web site http://www.rentavillas.com (Site in which one can book flights, care rental, hotels, travel blog, plus vacation rentals real time like a hotel via the GDS and PMS applications) Logos, brands and images