The Covid-19 year 2020 was definitely the most disruptive period for tourism of all times. As recurring travel restrictions and actual lockdowns show, the yacht charter industry cannot rely on the recovery of the business in 2021. Hastily produced vaccines might not bring back the “old normality” to international travel behaviour, if the political targets are others. However, insights from the 2020 season enable us to predict future challenges and trends for the boat rental market.

Which are the most popular sailboats of the charter season 2019? The survey was done by YachtSys using Big Data from 330 charter fleets with around 5,000 yachts in 600 international ports. Only operations on monohull sailboats made by charter agencies or by charter customers were used for the statistic. In this article we reveal the TOP 10 charter boats of the year 2019 and present their characteristics which are relevant for a yacht charter vacation.

I evaluated the early booking trends for the favourite yacht charter destinations. In this article, I reveal which were the most requested destinations for boat rentals during the early booking periods of the last years.

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) becomes effective on May 25th 2018. If you use certain YachtSys services, by default you are processing personal data and need a processing contract with YachtSys.

One of the big questions is how long you may store personal data from a customer who made a request but did not complete a booking.

Another important topic of the GDPR is the privacy declaration and to make it accessible for the client in the moment he is required to release his personal data.

A central topic of the GDPR is the consent of the client to use his personal data. YachtSys provides by default a draft of consent text in all online widgets. Of course YachtSys enables you to set up also your own consent text which e.g. your lawyer recommends you to use.

YachtSys complies with GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) which becomes enforceable on 25 May 2018. We explain you the basics about the GDPR and how YachtSys supports you to fulfil the requirements.

If you are searching for an unforgettable day on a luxury charter yacht, we have a great opportunity for you. The charter company Gian Charter offers daycharters and weekly cruises on their two luxury motoryachts. The cruises start from the port of Palma de Mallorca. We also added some great videos to give you some inspiration.

For the reason that Sun Yachting Greece recently joined YachtSys, we thought that it might be a great idea to present their 7 charter homeports by creating a collection of the most amazing Drone Videos we could find on Youtube.

With DUFI Sail Charter a further Italian sailboat charter fleet decided to be bookable via the YachtSys Reservation System. The boats have their homebase in San Vincenzo, Tuscany, around 50 km south of Livorno and 10 km north of Piombino. View the harbor town

Do you want to learn more about the trends for bareboat yacht charter prices in Europe since 2009? Are you curious how much boat charter prices depend on the age of the rented yacht? These and more questions related to boat charters in the Mediterranean are answered in this article. The presented values are calculated from 200.000+ charter orders done via YachtSys for major charter destinations during the last 7 years.

As anybody can imagine it is generally more expensive to charter a bigger than a smaller sailboat. But how much charter customers really had to pay for a three or four cabin sailing yachts during the season 2015? I put some light on it by querying our YachtSys database.

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Das Seminar mit dem Titel „The 7 Biggest Mistakes in Online Marketing - also done by Charter Companies“, wurde von mir auf der Internationalen CharterExpo im November 2014 in Berlin vorgetragen. Es richtete sich an alle Yachtcharter-Firmen, seien es Charteragenturen oder Charterflottenbetreiber. Die im Online Marketing auftretenden Versäumnisse und Fehler sind jedoch nicht symptomatisch für den Chartermarkt. Die „7 größten Fehler beim Online Marketing“ werden durchaus auch in anderen Branchen gemacht. Daher habe ich mich bei der Ausformulierung meines Seminarvortrags mit diesem Artikel eher allgemein gehalten, so dass der Artikel auch auf andere Dienstleistungsgewerbe anwendbar ist.

This November, at the end of the European yacht charter season, YachtBooker and Bavaria Yachtbau host the International CharterExpo for Agents and Providers. The event will take place between the 24th and the 26th of November, in Postdamer Platz, Berlin.

The BetterPrice tool of YachtSys enables yacht charter fleet managers and charter brokers to bargain about the charter price online. No need for phone calls, email exchange - just push the BetterPrice button and publish your price proposal for your partner.

Yacht charter prices and their dynamics are naturally the most discussed topic in the nautical tourism business. To contribute some light we evaluated the charter prices for the world's leading market, Croatia. Our designer spends another day to provide the values an attractive shape - the result is an infographic that hopefully pleases your visual perception.

Already last year YachtBooker published in Mid-January the pre-booking trends before the BOOT 2013 in Düsseldorf. This year the early booking situation for the major european bareboat charter destinations differs  significantly from the previous year 2013. Find out by pressing the "Read More" button.

YachtSys now allows to setup different agency commissions. Charter fleet managers can now define separate commission rates for operators and yacht units. It is easy and comfortable. Just press "Read More".

YachtBooker continued growth in 2013! Charter agents placed 14,7 % more bookings via Yachtsys on the YachtBooker Reservation System!

YachtBooker decided to reward that great result to ALL agency partners with a unique incentive. Click "Read More".

CharterBids is a real-time online-auction for orders of charter clients. The CharterBids module is seamlessly integrated as an own page in the YachtSys System. The auctioned charter orders were made by clients on the YachtBooker websites. Every charter company and agency can setup his on bidding for the online auction via its YachtSys login.

Did you ever wondered what it needs to double charter request for a charter yacht? Well, we found out about this and we will let you know in the following article.

Last week YachtBooker launched the YachtFinder update with a new filter bar. The new bar is now placed in a left column as introduced by leading online web shops. Read more to understand the challenges for this update and the advantages it brought for charter brokers and charter web site users.

Charter customers know: Each yacht has a name! A quality charter yacht sells itself by word of mouth. Give customers the chance to find and book a specific yacht from your fleet.

How big is the booking volume occuring during the BOOT 2013 in Düsseldorf? We compared the Pre-Bookings for specific yacht charter destinations before and after the worlds biggest water sport fair.

The Early Booking trend in bareboat yacht charter market is always on the focus right when the BOOT starts in Düsseldorf in the last week of January every year. We evaluated the number of already booked charter weeks charter per destination and set them in relation to the average number of booked weeks per season. The result you will see in the following bar chart.

Did you ever ask yourself questions like "what might be the total number of bareboat charter yachts" or "does Spain or Italy receive more charter bookings"? Well, we did ask ourselves those questions and tried to find some answers by analyzing our data resources that we gained through our YachtBooker Reservation System and YachtSys during the last years.