Vacation rental management company ResortQuest has enhanced its website, combining detailed property information, photographs, and virtual tours with destination-specific guides and event calendars.

Published: 02 Apr 2006

Vacation rental management company ResortQuest has enhanced its website, combining detailed property information, photographs, and virtual tours with destination-specific guides and event calendars.

The company says the new initiative follows a 12-month effort and a significant financial investment. To develop the new website, ResortQuest partnered with Behavior Design in New York City.

The new site includes both an Exclusive Vacation Properties page, featuring virtual tours of ResortQuest’s most luxurious vacation homes in ski destinations, as well as a Real Estate portal, where vacation home buyers can shop by MLS number, destination, specific property, or attain area realtors’ contact information.

Highlights of the new site include: Interactive maps throughout the site and mapping capabilities to compare property locations and their vicinity to local attractions; Advanced search capabilities by destination, activity/sport and specific property; Comprehensive destination guides including information about local arts and entertainment, dining, nightlife, shopping, spa and wellness, etc; A personal vacation account to save favorite properties, compare those properties and e-mail them to friends and family; Photo slideshows and VR Tours for most properties; A Real Estate section where visitors can browse vacation properties for sale and sign up for daily MLS alerts.

Mark Fioravanti, president of ResortQuest. “Our bigger, better website is designed to be a total travel portal, showcasing both our premier destinations as well as the premium living spaces and amenities that are our properties provide.”

Kristina Jonathan, director of Marketing and Internet Strategy for ResortQuest said during the course of redesigning of ResortQuest.com, the company consolidated nearly 100 vacation rental and real estate websites into one seamless site.