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Online Ticket Reservation

Purchasing Neighborhood organizations struggle with selling tickets by credit card. It’s frustrating and expensive to become a credit card merchant, and yet credit cards have become our primary form of currency and a very popular way to purchase items online. Tour guests want to pay for tickets with a credit card, but the expense to your organization cannot always be justified. HistoricHomeTours.com serves as your Ticket Reservation Provider and will collect all funds, via our credit card merchant account, and process all tour registration forms for you. You will reap the benefits of accepting credit cards without the associated hassle and expense!

Benefits for you, the home tour host:
• Sell and reserve tickets, year round, to more people, anywhere in America. We are open 24/7.
• Take advantage of HistoricHomeTours.com’s credit card merchant account with NO equipment fees, NO monthly fees, and NO transaction fees.
• Eliminate the need for costly order forms, ticket printing, mailers, postage, web design and maintenance.
• Choose to sell and reserve online tickets along with selling tickets by traditional methods in order to give guests a broader choice.

Benefits for your guests:
• Purchase and print ticket reservations at home (for a small transaction fee of $1.95). No more writing checks, mailing in order forms or waiting for tickets to arrive.

Online Home Tour Listing/ Registration

HistoricHomeTours.com is the premier website for neighborhood historic tours throughout the nation. On HistoricHomeTours.com, you can promote your association’s home tour, walking tour, or garden tour FOR FREE and expand your guest base by reaching visitors from all around America. Now you can reach your local market as well as travelers coming from other areas.

Benefits for you, the home tour host:
• Maximize exposure by having a year-round internet presence on the first and only site dedicated to promoting historic tours to the public.
• Capitalize on the ever growing population of cultural & heritage travelers. According to the Travel Industry Association of America:

“Cultural, arts, historic, and heritage activities or events are quite popular among U.S. travelers today. In fact, most (81%) U.S. adults who took at least one trip of 50 miles or more, one way, away from home in the past year included at least one such activity or event while traveling. This equates to more than half (56%) of the U.S. adult population who indicate they included at least one cultural, arts, historic, or heritage activity or event while on a trip in the past year. This represents 118.1 million adult historic/cultural travelers.”- The Historic/Cultural Traveler, 2003 Edition

• Raise additional funds from local businesses in your area through sponsored advertising on your HistoricHomeTours.com page and each printed confirmation sheet your guests print.
• Sell even more tickets when guests tell friends and family about your tour with our electronic email-invitation feature.

Benefits to your guests:

• Find tours fast, throughout the nation, by date or location.
• View important tour information, including dates, times, directions, prices, parking, architecture, pictures, etc.
• Invite friends and family by utilizing the electronic email-invitation feature.
• Create their own “guest profiles” to receive tour alerts for all tours in their selected areas.

Event Management

With any size historic tour, you need to easily track information about your guests. With HistoricHomeTours.com’s management system, you keep all this information in one central location, easily accessible to you and your volunteers.

Benefits to you, the home tour host:
• Get consolidated statement of online purchases as well as guest information at any time prior to the tour.
• Simplify the check in process for you and your visitors with printable guests lists containing all of the information needed to check them in during the tour.
• Build accumulating records of all guest email database, including past and present visitors. HistoricHomeTours.com uses this database to inform your past guests as well as guests from other tours in your area of your tour in the future.

Benefits to your guests:
• Speedy check-in process at start of the tour due to the well managed check in process.