Activelifestyle, products and services
The Activelifestyle Travel Network is a 126 domain Internet Travel Network that specializes in destination information for the consumer and solutions for the travel trade. The names are Activelifestyle's biggest asset. Our relatively early entry (1995) to the world wide web allowed us the opportunity to choose the best names on our niche. Because they perfectly describe the content found within and because they are aimed at and directly hit specific and unique segments of the travel industry, they have been very successful in attracting visitors and advertisers. Our original content consists of a huge amount of destination information that includes maps, slide shows, original stories, hotels, tours, interactive chat rooms and pricing. In fact it is designed to and delivers, every bit of information needed to make it easier for the travel to make a decision for his/her next vacation or business trip. Our trade solutions consist of the Activelifestyle-developed reservations and management application, ManagEasy, and its secure, credit card email extension. Both applications are aimed at the millions of hotels that are using simple e-mails and unsecured forms to process reservation requests. In addition we have also developed a point-to-point airline ticketing application called EasyAirTicket. The later makes it simple for airlines and tour operators combing air tickets with land arrangements, to offer and sell these arrangements to the consumer. Security and ease of use are the bywords on all Activelifestyle developed applications. We offer a full selection of services and solutions that are sold to the travel trade that will help them promote to the traveling public. Any hotel or travel supplier buying these applications will get the added and valuable benefit of access and exposure to the targeted Activelifestyle viewers. Activelifestyle History What is today Activelifestyle started life in 1978 as Euro Ski Magazine. We published Euro Ski as an annual publication for English speaking skiers living and working in Europe. About 3 years later we launched Golf Travel Magazine and about 5 years later, Travel and Style Thailand, a monthly free newspaper for visitors to Thailand. In 1995 we heard about the Internet and decided to give it a try. To put all of the titles under "one roof" so to speak, we chose the name Activelifestyle as an indicator of our content subjects. We are proud of the result. Today we have our production offices in Bangkok, Thailand. A company, The Activelifestyle Mall Corporation, USA that was set up to get merchant banking and credit card acceptance facilities, and our Bermuda based Activelifestyle Travel Network. It is here that earnings are banked. Activelifestyle Sales and Marketing We are also in the early stages of forming an International telephone sales organization based in our Bangkok offices.This presently stands at 10 people with more being added weekly. The goal is to make the company highly sales and market driven. We believe that we have the names, the products and the audience. Now we are ready to sell. In fact since the start of our local sales force we have increased Thailand related sales by more than 25% per month. We intend to renew our exhibiting presence at major and even some less prominent International trade shows. We feel this gives us the best chance of introducing the various Activelifestyle Travel Suites to potential travel industry partners. Activelifestyle Management Since its inception in 1978, Bill Fogarty (CDN) has run Activelifestyle. His history in publishing, advertising sales, layout and design and distribution has been valuable in the changeover from print to Internet and other multi media forms of distribution. Linda Maxted (GB) has been with the company for a total of 20 years. Linda has been active and successful in the fields of sales, sales management, training and works from London and, basically wherever she is needed. This is a consistency and degree of professionalism and experience that is most valuable. Gary Bray(USA) recently joined us from Microsoft corporation in Thailand. Gary was responsible for all aspects of technical solutions in Thailand as well as the introduction of and training for, new Microsoft products and services in Thailand. He consulted on the systems of such clients as The Bank Of Thailand and Thai Airways International among others. As supervisor of our technical department Gary will ensure that Activelifestyle will stay well ahead of the curve on new software developments that will assist our clients and consumers visitors to our web sites. Geoffrey Blake (AUS) is a shareholder and working partner that brings a wealth of printing design, layout and business skills to the firm. Mr. Blake is a board member and consults in banking and finance issues.Besides the people mentioned above Activelifestyle has 3 programmers, six web designers, one reservations person and two that work on data bases and reservations engines input.We contract out most of our daily bookkeeping and financial recording work as we feel this saves time and money.