CLICKnDIVE.com Connects Divers, Retailers and Suppliers

(Dive Travel Business News - December 3, 2010) -- Retailers and Operators have been given a new tool to bridge the gap to divers’ travel needs with the launch of CLICKnDIVE.com, the first and only online portal to help divers plan their next local scuba dive or dive vacation.  CLICKnDIVE.com was introduced at the annua Diving Equipment & Marketing Association (DEMA) Trade Show in Las Vegas in November 2010.  

CLICKnDIVE.com is a subsidiary of Associated Oceans, LLC. a privately-held Miami-based company with veteran principals & management, connects Divers through Retailers to Resorts, Live Aboard and Local Charter Boats. CLICKnDIVE is a fully automated online booking/integrated point of sale system that captures the diver at the point they make the reservation and take them to the point of diving.  CLICKnDIVE will also serve as the data warehouse for all the subsequent components of this solution.  For each registered diver, CLICKnDIVE will capture and retain a diver profile, certification levels, each dive reservation and the details of each excursion.

For years the typical scenario has been for a retail dive store to book a resort/dive boat for a number of divers and actively sell those spots to their clientele. These days the retailer’s are not committed to investing money as a deposit to hopefully fill a trip for a specific date. If a store can sell two spots for any date with any resort, live aboard or local dive boat trip, the retailer can still participate in travel, still make commissions and still offer activities to their customer base with CLICKnDIVE.com.

CLICKnDIVE.com lists dive sites, resorts, dive boats, live aboard boats and retailers on its web site with the ability to book and pay for dive travel, verify certification with training agencies, print liability release forms and boarding passes and secure rental equipment. This new online portal will ensure the diver has an easy, simple, experience without waiting in line to pay the morning of the boat dive, then waiting in line again to rent equipment.

In addition, Associated Oceans, LLC has recently purchased Dive Shop Express. Dive Shop Express software opens the door to effective retail management through a comprehensive suite of programs that satisfies your point of sale and inventory management requirements. U.S. and International dive retailers are using this software program to run their business. Plans are already in progress for software updates. In addition, there will be full integration with CLICKnDIVE.com to incorporate with the travel and equipment rental reservation module of Dive Shop Express.

For more details contact Scott Mastrangelo, Vice President of Sales & Marketing at smastrangelo@associatedoceans.com, call 305-760-8753, visit CLICKnDIVE.com. For more information about the next DEMA Show in Orlando in November 2011 visit the DEMA Show.

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