December's Tourism Services Award goes to...

GINZ - Guest in New Zealand

This site represents the services of a travel company which is able to assist visitors with planning and booking their NZ accommodation and transport requirements. It does this well, offering the ability to search for accommodation by type and/or location. Worthy of special mention is the way in which forms have been implemented. When a visitor to the site locates the accommodation they desire and requests the booking form, this is returned pre-configured to the appropriate accommodation provider. The form also calculates the tariff according to the number of nights the visitor wishes to stay One improvement we'd like to see is the addition of a secure booking form, especially since the form has an area for entering credit card details. The site utilises content from other sites to complement its own enabling it to provide up-to-date information on such things as weather forecasts and coming events, something we'd like to see more of on other sites.

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