Hospitality & Tourism

You run a tourism or hospitality business and want to know how Bartercard can work for you

For over 22 years savvy tourism and hospitality businesses have been turning to Bartercard for help to fill their vacant rooms, empty seats and unsold tourism tickets. Although heavy discounting is commonplace in the industry, these businesses have found that partnering with Bartercard is a much wiser decision.  They've protected their brand value by maintaining their price, preferring to access Bartercard's community of 20,000 members to fill their vacancies at full price.  Instead of cash, these extra sales are paid using trade dollars that they use to offset against their cash expenses such as advertising and promotions.

Bartercard members talk about Bartercard...

	Andrew McElhone - Sage Restaurant "Bartercard has been instrumental in increasing my restaurant's revenue and patronage. It is always good to have a busy looking restaurant; customers and potential customers always see this as a popular place to dine. So Bartercard is perfect to fill our tables for both slow and semi busy times."
	Greg Blechynden - Bellafonte “We joined Bartercard to create more awareness of our new restaurant. Bartercard members dine in our restaurant on trade then tell their friends and business associates about us which brings us more cash business.  It’s a win win. Bartercard assists our cash flow greatly.  We regularly purchase wine from South Australia and Margaret River wineries on Bartercard.  Buying at $10 trade and selling for $40 cash a bottle not only is an effective cash conversion for us but it also assists our cash flow no end."
	Gary Trenerry - Quality Hotel Manor “Bartercard enables me to turn idle capacity into profit. When I joined Bartercard I’d just bought my hotel and I was completely cash strapped.  I needed to get funds into the business urgently.  I used my interest free line of credit to purchase a cappuccino machine, grinder, and beans in order to increase my breakfast revenue.  This worked well.  We then started value adding to our hotel rooms by advertising room rates to include champagne and chocolates all purchased on trade. For the hotel and restaurant I regularly buy bakery items, chemicals, coffee, flowers for the reception, and stationary on trade. We also get our windows cleaned regularly and get our kitchen equipment serviced. Bartercard is well worth it.”
	Birton Erku - Arirang Korean BBQ Restaurant "Bartercard has helped us enormously, particularly with the set up of our second restaurant. We offset roughly 30% of our construction and set up costs. We used Bartercard for such things as table and chairs, window glazing, electrical, painting and plumbing. We also gain extra cash business through Bartercard by fellow Bartercard members bringing in their clients or friends who then come back and pay cash."
	Tom Hardy - Thomas Hardy Wines "I've traded nearly $3 Million with Bartercard. I'd really recommend it to any business owner because it's a way you can really push your business forward...I've used Bartercard in many ways to help save costs."