ADVERTISE YOUR HOLIDAY PROPERTY WITH HOLIDAY FRANCE DIRECT

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If you own a holiday property in France, Spain or Portugal, consider becoming a Holiday France Direct advertiser.

·          We market your holiday property on your behalf whilst you deal direct with your guests, giving you complete control over letting dates, rental prices and who stays in your property.

·          We offer travel savings – currently 20% off Brittany Ferries’ car and passenger fares – to help entice visitors to book at your property. You can travel at this discounted fare too.

·          You can choose whether to advertise on our website, in our brochure or both, and we offer both one year and money-saving 2 year advertising rates.
THE DEADLINE FOR ADVERTISING IN OUR 2009 BROCHURE IS 1 AUGUST 2008 – PLEASE GET IN TOUCH WITH US STRAIGHTAWAY IF YOU WISH TO BOOK SPACE

·          Our properties advisors are only a phone call or email away and can help you get the most from your advertising.

·          If you wish to advertise on the website and are ready to place your advertisement now, click here to sign-up now online.

 

By advertising online, your advert is available 24/7. The website is easy for guests to use, giving them the facility to make their searches as general or specific as they wish. It contains plenty of information about each region useful to holidaymakers and links directly to Brittany Ferries online bookings.

 

We continually invest in the website, in particular, auditing and enhancing its performance, adding new material and improving its design. We market the site principally through online advertising, pay per click campaigns and regular emails to our ever-growing database of prospective customers.

 

Your one-off annual advertising fee covers a one page web advertisement containing:

·          Headings

·          As much text as you wish

·          As much information on your property’s facilities as you wish

·          One main image plus a gallery of 6 further pictures

·          Rental and contact details, including a link to your own website if you have one plus our emailing facility (we do not publish owners’ email addresses to help prevent unwanted mails)

·          As many activity and service symbols as you need

·          Your availability calendar

·          Your personal recommendations of things to see and do in your area

·          Special offers

 

It also gives you and your guests access to the travel savings with Brittany Ferries, and to the owners area where you can update your availability calendar, edit your advert, check your enquiries and see how many page views your advert has received. We also offer advertisers a property swap notice-board, discount travel banners to put on their own website and the facility to sell last-minute availability via our RSS feed.

 

To place an advertisement from now until 31 December 2009 is £200 plus vat. To advertise until 31 December 2010 is £340 plus vat. To proceed with placing an online advert, go to the booking form here. Please note that we will require proof of property ownership, such as an electricity bill, under separate cover.

 

Not everyone has access to the internet and some guests prefer to make their holiday selection from a brochure. The Holiday France Direct brochure is beautifully presented with information on each region of France - as well as Spain and Portugal – plus there is section on Brittany Ferries travel services.

 

There is a choice of advert sizes, the most popular being 1/8^th page. All advertisers booking both a brochure and a web advertisement receive a voucher for return travel with Brittany Ferries for £75 (nb conditions apply). Book for 2 years, and receive 2 of these £75 return crossings. Discounts are available for multiple adverts and we provide a loyalty discount starting from the second year of advertising.

 

On brochure launch in the autumn, we distribute it to previous and potential customers. It is advertised in the press, promoted in all our direct mailings and by our press office, and is stocked onboard Brittany Ferries’ ships. The brochure can also be obtained on a number of brochure ordering sites, via recommendation cards and of course can be ordered on both our own and Brittany Ferries’ websites.

 

Brochure adverts start from £200 plus vat. The pdf download here contains full details. To place an advert in the 2009 brochure, complete the form included in the download and forward it with your payment, images (emailed if you prefer) and proof of property ownership, eg, electricity bill.

 

THE DEADLINE FOR ADVERTISING IN OUR 2009 BROCHURE IS 1 AUGUST 2008 – PLEASE GET IN TOUCH WITH US STRAIGHTAWAY IF YOU WISH TO BOOK SPACE

 

An attractive, bright and clear image of your property does the selling for you! Whether for your web or your brochure advert:

·          Take your image on a bright day and from an attractive angle.

·          A landscape image generally works better than a portrait one.

·          Include the swimming pool if you have one and ensure garden furniture is attractively arranged.

·          On web adverts, include a selection of internal images. This gives prospective guests reassurance

·          If there are people in any of the images, we require their written consent to use the image.

·          Our artist can provide a watercolour illustration based on photographs and instructions for £50 plus vat (nb copyright remains with the artist).

·          Web images need to be at least 300 x 300 pixels

·          Brochure images need to be 300dpi, 90mm wide x 60mm high

 

The above gives a summary of our services. For further details, either download or order our full Information Pack.

 

For any queries about advertising with Holiday France Direct, please either phone 0871 244 1245 or email enquiries@holidayfrancedirect.com

 

If you wish to advertise online now, please go straight to our booking pages. These take you through a step-by-step process for which you’ll need to have ready your property details, images and means of payment.

 

Once you have completed your booking, Holiday France Direct will upload your advert the next working day. This may include minor changes to text to tidy in addition to opening your availability calendar and providing your account number for access to discounted travel with Brittany Ferries and your password to access the online owners area.

 

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