The Times 2009
December 2009
Deal sealed with National Business Award winners: Go Ape High Wire Forest Adventure signs long-term license agreement for Open Frontiers’ online booking software, Time Pursuit. The UK’s leading treetop adventure company, Go Ape, has agreed a deal to use Time Pursuit the long term.
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December 2009
Building Business: Open Frontiers welcomes new Business Development Manager Simon Nicholson.
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August 2009
The time is right for European expansion. Dutch forest adventure company Fun Forest selects latest generation leisure management system, Time Pursuit, as key tool for growth strategy.
Open Frontiers celebrates its first European deal this month with one of Holland’s foremost outdoor leisure companies. Fun Forest needed an integrated online advanced booking and customer management system for its existing climbing activity parks. In addition, the young company required a solution for optimising operational efficiency to lay the foundations for its future expansion plans.
Members of the influential International Adventure Park Association (IAPA), Fun Forest currently has sites in Venlo, near Eindhoven and now its brand new premium city park location in central Amsterdam. The implementation of Time Pursuit is key to its growth strategy, which includes plans for roll out to a number of the country’s major cities. The phased implementation of Time Pursuit has been rapid, with the successful processing of site entry going live within two weeks of Open Frontiers receiving the order. The website’s e-commerce capabilities are set to follow shortly.
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July 2009
Open Frontiers welcome two new members to the team.
Husband and wife team Oliver and Katy Wigdahl, of Open Frontiers welcome two new members to the team.
Assisting with demand for its highly acclaimed online booking and customer management system, Time Pursuit, Tom Lee and Vicky Blyth are joining a company that is celebrating a series of high profile new business wins.
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June 2009
Open Frontiers roars with success at Woburn Safari Park.
Suffolk based leisure systems specialists, Open Frontiers, has bagged some big game business at Go Ape’s first ever franchise operation, Woburn Safari Park.
Open Frontier’s sophisticated customer management system, Time Pursuit, already powers Go Ape’s 21 existing UK sites, call centre, online bookings and back-office. The system is now accessed by Woburn Safari Park and their customers to book combined Go Ape and Woburn Safari Park packages, using the impressive new franchise management module.
The pioneering leisure activity booking software, originally built as a bespoke project for the award-winning High Wire Forest Adventure Company, has been enhanced to meet the rapid business growth challenges presented by franchise operations. The new module encompasses all the rich features enjoyed by the parent organisation, yet with complete financial and operating autonomy for the franchise partner.
Oliver Wigdahl of Open Frontiers says, ”Now Time Pursuit has been launched to the wider leisure industry, enterprises seeking to grow through franchising, who offer time-based activities and/or gate admission based attractions, can realize their potential by streamlining booking and customer management processes, and thereby maximise sales.”
Jo Hoffman of Woburn Safari Park agrees; “Time Pursuit clearly has a great track record with Go Ape and now we’re using it, we can see why”.
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April 2009
Another woodland triumph for Open Frontiers, with BeWILDerwood outdoor children’s adventure park.
BeWILDerwood chooses latest generation leisure management system, Time Pursuit, to power their future growth.
Looking to implement an integrated online advanced booking and gate admissions system, award winning leisure company BeWILDerwood, needed to develop automation for its highly successful Norfolk based children’s treehouse adventure park.
Simon Egan, CEO of BeWILDerwood, says: “Our business and dream goes from strength to strength, and we have ambitious growth plans for the future. To achieve these ends, we know we need the expertise, which Open Frontiers brings, as well as the horsepower, which Time Pursuit offers as a latest generation leisure management system. We loved the fact that Time Pursuit was designed from the start to be an online end-to-end solution”.
Oliver Wigdahl, MD of Open Frontiers, says: “We are thrilled to be working with the Boggles and Twiggles of BeWILDerwood, together with our ePOS partners at Cybertill. Our Time Pursuit solution really raises the bar in the field of leisure management. It is flexible, easy to use, scalable to the largest of enterprises, and has low cost of ownership. It will allow BeWILDerwood to lock-in and grow sales and drive productivity by simplifying the lives of their staff, so that they can focus on delivering their wonderful dream”.
January 2009
Time Pursuit sends sales soaring at Go Ape.
Open Frontiers unveils a powerful new business tool as it launches Time Pursuit, the latest software technology for real-time online leisure bookings. Time Pursuit was originally conceived as a bespoke project for the forest based adventure company, Go Ape.
The brief was to build a latest generation software package to deliver a robust solution for the ever increasing and complex demands of real-time, online bookings across multiple channels, for multiple sites.
Go Ape has now welcomed its millionth customer, processed more than £20million of business through the system and is now the UK’s fastest growing leisure company (listed in Sunday Times Fast Track 100, 2008).
Paul Rossiter, Finance Director at Go Ape said: “Time Pursuit has proven to be an excellent booking and sales management system for our business since it first launched in Jan 2007. It has underpinned our substantial 130% growth in business over the last 2 years”.
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