Wells, Somerset -- (SBWIRE) --06/07/2011 -- This Summer, approximately 20 million of us are expected to be vacationing in the UK. The weak pound and the surprisingly warmer past few months has contributed to persuading people to stay in the UK and shun the traditional summer sun getaway.

After all, it is cheaper to stay here, there are no fuel duties or taxes to pay, no awful in-flight meals, coupled with flight delays and baggage allowances and numerous other hassles at the airport, so who can blame the great British public for holidaying in their home climate. Many of us remember the great 'ash cloud of 2010' and definitely do not want to relive the problems that caused. Infact we have seen this again recently with the new eruption in Iceland of the Grimsvotn volcano.

It is expected that our traditionally popular holiday locations will continue to benefit this summer, such as Cornwall, Devon and Blackpool along with our capital London.

The result of one third of us staying put will cause a £7.3 billion boost to the UK economy.

The Holiday Cottages website offers advertising to self-catering accommodation owners. The site receives over 4 million hits per month and is listed on page 1 of all the major search engines including Google. You can view the site at http://www.theholidaycottages.co.uk.

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Wells, Somerset -- (SBWIRE) -- 04/25/2011 -- Tourism website The Holiday Cottages is planning a website remodel in the next 6 months.

There will be a number of customer surveys going out shortly to end-users and newsletter subscribers to ask them what they would like to see from the website in the future, along with asking advertisers what features they feel would be of benefit to their adverts on the site.

The revamp is expected to create a better experience for users, with the site having more fluidity and ease of use.

Sales Team Leader Helen Roach says; "We can't wait for the website revamp as it will give the website a fresh, new look with added features".

The remodel is expected to take 6 months to develop and the revamp launch is planned for the start of 2012.

The Holiday Cottages website offers advertising to self-catering accommodation owners. The site receives over 4 million hits per month and is listed on page 1 of all the major search engines including Google. You can view the site at http://www.theholidaycottages.co.uk.

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Wells, Somerset -- (SBWIRE) -- 03/23/2011 -- This month has seen The Holiday Cottages website launch themselves on Twitter and Facebook, along with starting a company Blog.

The move had been on the cards for some time as part of the groups overall media strategy, integrating social media and other platforms.

It is hoped that the companys presence on such social media and networking sites will enable its clients (new and existing) to be able to communicate with the company in an alternative way other than telephone and email. It will also enable greater transparency to be observed, with questions and answers displayed in a public forum.

Early success has already been achieved on both sites, and to promote the initiative, for the month of February the team offered a little something special to all new customers. Those clients who had Facebook or Twitter would get a free mention on the company Facebook and Twitter accounts, as well as a write-up on their newly-launched Blog during this month.

The Holiday Cottages website offers advertising to self-catering accommodation owners. The site receives over 4 million hits per month and is listed on page 1 of all the major search engines including Google. You can view the site at http://www.theholidaycottages.co.uk.

Twitter: @theholidaycots
Facebook: The Holiday Cottages
Blog: http://www.theholidaycottages.blogspot.com

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Wells, Somerset -- (SBWIRE) -- 04/27/2010 -- Established self-catering accommodation website http://www.theholidaycottages.co.uk has seen a 30% increase in month-on-month visitors to the website in the past few weeks.

There are a variety of reasons thought to be attributable to this, the first and foremost being due to the ash cloud that is currently lingering over Europe and the countries within, primarily obstructing UK airspace. Flight after flight has been cancelled, leaving many Brits with plenty of free time and not able to fly abroad so it is thought they have been flocking to snap-up some last minute deals in the UK, and, although the temperatures aren't quite as soaring as the Caribbean, the UK has seen considerably warmer weather that usual for this time of year.

A further reason for the visitor increase could be late bookings for Easter – some schools have up to 3 weeks off during the Easter period so this could also be a contributing factor to the increase in visitors to the site.

The Holiday Cottages has reported no server downtime or web traffic issues which is good news and indicates site capacity is stable and confirms that the infrastructure in place for handling larger volumes of traffic is able to cope seamlessly with the increased demand.

The Holiday Cottages website offers advertising to self-catering accommodation owners. The site receives over 4 million hits per month and is listed on page 1 of all the major search engines including Google. You can view the site at http://www.theholidaycottages.co.uk

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Theholidaycottages.co.uk fills up the Late Availability section in preparation for this months half-term holiday market.

Wells, Somerset -- (SBWIRE) -- 02/17/2010 -- Every 6 – 8 weeks at theholidaycottages.co.uk, the team send out requests to all their clients for their Late Availability dates for the next few months. All of their clients advertise their self-catering accommodation on the website for a small fee, and in return the site advertises these properties to get the owners lots of enquiries and bookings.

This month over 1000 responses to the email were collected and rapidly processed by a dedicated team of staff, ensuring that all clients availability was live and available within 48 hours for visitors to the site to see. This response rate is approximately 25% higher than what is normally expected.

As the UK continues to pull out of the recession it is expected that lots of people will be taking short breaks while the kids are out of school and take some time out to recover from the recent cold-snap and snowy weather before term continues. The sites availability section is a dedicated space for clients to advertise their last-minute vacancies completely free-of-charge and has proved very useful in the past as not many other accommodation sites offer a dedicated late availability section. It is hoped that the popularity of the section will continue to increase as the holiday market gets back on track over the coming months.

The Holiday Cottages website offers advertising to self-catering accommodation owners. The site receives over 4 million hits per month and is listed on page 1 of all the major search engines including Google. You can view the site at http://www.theholidaycottages.co.uk

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Theholidaycottages.co.uk launches new Featured Adverts to greatly increase exposure for their clients.

Wells, Somerset -- (SBWIRE) -- 12/14/2009 -- The month of December is usually a quiet month for advertisers to spend out on advertising their self-catering properties, however Directors at http://www.theholidaycottages.co.uk have come up with a brand new offering for existing and potential clients.

Normally an advertiser would make a one off payment to advertise their property for a certain number of years, but this month the company is offering special upgraded listings called Featured Adverts. Only two are available per country and they are on a first come first served basis. They will position a clients advert in one of the two top positions in their county for one month. Included in the price is a two year Standard Listing, plus a Gold upgrade, making the advert appear with a Gold frame on the site, making it stand out from the rest.

They have been selling really well so far this month, with most countys expected to be full by the middle of the month, so people can really kick start their advertising in the New Year. It will give clients more coverage on the site and also encourage more of the 4 millions visitors to the website each month to cross over to their own websites and treat themselves to a break in the New Year.

The Holiday Cottages website offers advertising to self-catering accommodation owners. The site receives over 4 million hits per month and is listed on page 1 of all the major search engines including Google. You can view the site at http://www.theholidaycottages.co.uk

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TheHolidayCottages.co.uk team have a very special day planned for this years Children in Need

Wells, Somerset -- (SBWIRE) -- 11/24/2009 -- Each year the team at theholidaycottages.co.uk without fail do something for Children in Need and often will raise around £300 from the generosity of management, staff and members of the public.

Previous events for Children in Need have included a charity shop run where each member of staff had £5 to buy a complete outfit from all the charity shops in the high street within 15 minutes. They then had to wear it to work the next day, along with bringing in homemade cakes to go around to the other businesses in the vicinity and sell and raise lots of money.

This year the team is going to be coming into the office with their clothes on back to front! In fact, everything should be back to front, such as shoes, makeup, hair, everything! This is sure to cause some hilarious laughs and hopefully encourage everybody to give generously this year and raise even more money for Children in Need. Of course, bringing in homemade cakes will also feature highly in the day! The team hope to beat their previous amounts raised last year and in the years before and have the best year ever!

The Holiday Cottages website offers advertising to self-catering accommodation owners. The site receives over 4 million hits per month and is listed on page 1 of all the major search engines including Google. You can view the site at http://www.theholidaycottages.co.uk

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm