The Star Brochure is one of the most beneficial tools that we at Bedsonline offer to travel agents in order to streamline the way that you work, and ultimately increase bookings - alongside our global portfolio, of course!

As a fully digital travel brochure, the Star Brochure offers a whole host of interactive, engaging content about must-visit destinations and hotels around the world; it’s the perfect resource for travel agents, offering all the information needed to refine your consultations and inspire both you and your clients. Because at the end of the day, you’re travellers too and should feel inspired by the destinations you’re selling!

Refining your consultations is especially important when you consider that more than half (63%) of customers have said they will stop buying with brands who use poor personalisation tactics, according to a recent study by Smart Insights.

So, what can you expect from the Star Brochure, and why should it be your new best friend when it comes to boosting your bookings? Let’s explore…

Sustainable Design

Because the Star Brochure is fully digital, not only is it available in just a few clicks at any time, but it is also much more environmentally friendly than traditionally printed travel brochures. 

With the ever-increasing demand for digital products in this online era, to cater for younger generations of travellers who are much more mobile - such as Gen Y and Gen Z - we at Bedsonline wanted to offer a travel brochure that stood up not only to the needs of travel agents to make their lives easier, but also that met the needs of today’s fast-paced traveller.

A fully digital travel brochure means that we can:

• Incorporate the same high quality content as ever in an even more engaging way
• Offer even more shareability for on-the-move clients
• Ensure we’re incorporating more green-conscious practices into our products and services

Offering a digital travel brochure is also part of our mission to retain our Carbon Neutral status, which we’ve achieved for three years running! Read more about our wider Environmental, Social and Governmental initiatives here as part of our parent company, Hotelbeds.

Interactive and Inspiring Content 

A well-presented and populated portfolio of amazing hotels is a sure-fire way to capture the attention of clients at that all-important ‘dreaming phase’ of the customer journey, where travellers are the most open to inspiration. 

As the first of the 5 key stages of the travel journey as identified by Google - dreaming, planning, booking, experiencing and sharing - the dreaming phase is a crucial opportunity for travel agents to meet and exceed each travellers’ expectations. To do so, you must not only be equipped with an arsenal of amazing hotels in trending destinations, and the perfect way to present these during consultation, but also the ability to inspire your clients. 

This is exactly what the Star Brochure offers, as a fully online travel brochure packed with the very best of our 300,000 hotels in must-visit destinations all over the world, images and dynamic video galleries, and inspiring articles, travel agent interviews, and valuable top tips designed to excite both travellers and travel agents alike!

Not only this, but the Star Brochure has handy ‘Best For’ categories which are included throughout the brochure, making it even easier to identify the perfect hotel for every client on an individual basis! 

Plus, useful interviews given by travel experts such as other travel agents and hotel owners offer insightful information on trends, destinations and hotels themselves.

In fact, the Star Brochure has been described by one of our valuable travel agents as: 

A great way to interact with our clients to find the perfect trip. We really enjoy the interactive icons within the brochure, to view additional information such as videos and images to bring the destination and hotel(s) to life. It’s very inspiring! - John Barrett, Strategic Account Manager for Magic Vacations

Discover the Star Brochure today!

Engaging Advertisement Spaces

There are different advertisement types within the Star Brochure, each providing all the crucial information needed to really sell them to the traveller! 

• Hotel Listings: designed for individual hotels, the hotel listing contains a short, engaging description of the property, the category and ‘Best For’ icons. Also , pop up buttons will direct you to extra information about facilities, images, and even videos!
• Premium Adverts: these spaces are branded advertisements and give useful information of  hotel chains, individual hotels or multiple hotels at the same time, including pop ups with images and videos for a visual overview. 

Easy Navigation

With the handy navigation and interactive functions bar within the Star Brochure, making your way around our digital travel brochure is easier than ever! 

As well as changing the view format to make it as user-friendly as possible, from here you can easily print, download and share your travel brochure without having to leave the platform. There is also a search function on this navigation bar, which allows you to search within the brochure for quick access to specific content.

Streamlined Booking Features

Because we understand that there are many aspects of a travel agents’ daily life that are time-consuming, we’re dedicated to simplifying as many of these processes as possible to make the lives of travel agents who work with us that much easier.

One of the ways we do this is by incorporating ‘look-to-book’ buttons in our Star Brochure, available for each hotel listing within the brochure itself, and which lead directly to a bookable listing in our Booking Engine once clicked. Premium ads also include this option, as a handy link in the hotel name itself!

This means that our travel agents can book a hotel directly from the brochure - saving valuable time and improving customer experience all at once - and it’s a feature that is well-loved by our partners:

What [we] like most about the Star Brochure is the interactivity: being able to jump directly to the Bedsonline website and book the selected hotel - Rocio Carreto, Director of Viajes Selene 

Fully Customisable

With the all-new customisation tool within the Star Brochure itself, you can quickly and easily create 100% bespoke travel brochures for your clients on an individual basis. 

Only available to our clients, this unique tool allows travel agents to create completely unique travel marketing materials that suit each traveller’s unique needs and preferences, while at the same time including all the information that our clients know, love, and come to expect from our Star Brochure. 

Regardless of whether travel agents would prefer to add in their own unique content into our provided templates, or utilise the articles, insights and interview content already included in our Star Brochure, the customisation features mean that every brochure is tailored to clients on an individual basis. 

This is not only incredibly useful for our travel agents in the sense that they can create a streamlined brochure which speeds up the booking process, and therefore improve the way that they work, but it caters for the increasing demand for personalised customer experiences which is so important to today’s traveller.

Improved Shareability 

Because travellers are always on the move - even before they set off on their adventures - it’s important that you’re able to share your customised travel brochure wherever they are! 

And thanks to the improved shareability of our digital Star Brochure, this is easier than ever. Easily share your travel brochure with your clients via email, downloadable PDF, personalised QR codes or WhatsApp for streamlined consultations and easy communication at every stage of the booking process.

Check out the Star Brochure now and start making the most of this valuable, interactive brochure to inspire and excite your clients.