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If you like to learn how to prepare your bike rental shop/bike hire centre for GDPR (comes in enforcement on May 25th), I recommend Rental Guru’s blog - GDPR For Bike Shops - A Lawyer's Guide.You will find professional expertise by Linkilaw’s CEO Alexandra Isenegger, adapted for bike rental shops.Also, there is a very useful questionnaire that will provide you a check list and what steps you need to take to be GDPR compliant. Good luck!

You should in theory, see a lot of answers to this from companies. Several can do what you want (mostly), such as RentalsUnited, Mybookingpal, leisurelink, Xotelia, Vacation Rental Management Technology (channel mentor) but there are questions you need to answer, but often all cannot do everything. Airbnb is an outlier and keeps changing its systems. Booking.com: 864,400 hotels worldwide. Book your hotel now! is now introducing its new API, HA are upgrading to become a full time OTA and many channels are fighting a technology war.Search "vacation rental channel managers" and send them all a questionnaire, add some more channels as well for fun.Do you you link to Bookingcom, Agoda, Airbnb, Flipkey, HolidayLettings, HomeAway full network (please name exceptions) and please name any others?For each of the above please specify what you synchronise: Content, images, pricing, availability and how often?For each of the above specify if it is a two way synchronisation for bookings?For each how often are prices updated and when a booking is requested does the system interrogate real time the source system (PMS).For HomeAway (using instant booking) are able to synchronise your own paymentsWhat technology do you use to synchronise to each, please specify: Bot, iCAL's or full marketplace API's or a combination of all.Do you charge a channel % of bookings or do you charge a fixed channel fee? Please state feesOn pricing, am I limited by the night or are their pricing variations that can be implemented if there is no reverse price interrogation (4).Payment terms please.Finally AND IMPORTANT. Do you feed any non-commission, non-OTA sites where we may receive, if we wish, enquiries from adverts. Its higher margin and good for returning guests and the ones who want contact (still 70% of the market).Once you have these answered you can pretty much start to see what is best and where you may see problems.Hope that helps.

Nobody mentioned about Netflix in this questionnaire.if you didn't know Netflix killed many of its dvd rental businesses that includes Blockbuster.You might be familiar with this company as a streaming giant, which streams contents like serials, movies, shows etc directly to your computers, mobile,tablets, televisions. It is valued at nearly 100 billion US$ as of 2017. Currently it’s only competitors are Amazon Prime ,Hulu (in international),VIU, Hotstar (In India) etc(and Many more).Presently the company is so big that many of the media houses/media corporations are either creating their own versions of streaming websites or collaborating with Netflix out of fear. I know it is no longer a startup but still during 2000, in it’s infancy, it wasn’t even able to compete against people selling video tapes in America. You might be asking which company did Netflix destroy? To be specific Blockbuster was bankrupt in the year 2013 due to negligible sales and which did DVD-rental business, which were getting affected due to direct clash up with Netflix; In short companies which were doing DVD rental businesses were all now become defunct.Humble beginningsNetflix was founded on August 29, 1997, in Scotts Valley, California, by Marc Randolph and Reed Hastings. They came up with the idea for Netflix while commuting between their homes in Santa Cruz and Pure Atria's headquarters in Sunnyvale. Hastings invested $2.5 million in startup cash for Netflix. Randolph wanted to find a large category of portable items to sell over the Internet using a similar model. They considered and rejected VHS tapes as too expensive to stock and too delicate to ship. When they heard about DVDs, which was first introduced in the United States on March 31, 1997, they tested the concept of selling or renting DVDs by mail, by mailing a compact disc to Hastings' house in Santa Cruz. When the disc arrived intact, they decided to take on the $16 billion home video sales and rental industry.Netflix was launched on April 14, 1998, as the world's first online DVD rental store, with only 30 employees and 925 titles available, which was almost the entire catalogue of DVDs in print at the time, through the pay-per-rent model with rates and due dates that were similar to its bricks-and-mortar rival, BlockBuster.Hard TimesNetflix introduced the monthly subscription concept in September 1999, and then dropped the single-rental model in early 2000. Since that time the company has built its reputation on the business model of flat-fee unlimited rentals without due dates, late fees, shipping and handling fees, or per-title rental fees.In 2000, when Netflix had just about 300,000 subscribers and relied on the U.S. Postal Service for the delivery of their DVDs, they were losing money and offered to be acquired by Blockbuster for $50 million. They proposed that Netflix, which would rename themselves Blockbuster, would handle the online business, while Blockbuster should take care of the DVDs, making them less dependent on U.S. Postal Service. The offer was declined.While they experienced fast growth in early 2001, both the dot-com bubble burst and the September 11 attacks would occur later that year, affecting the company badly and forcing them to lay off two thirds of their 120 employees. But then the sales of DVD players finally took off as they became more affordable, selling for about $200 around Thanksgiving times, becoming one of that year's most popular Christmas gifts. By early 2002 Netflix saw a huge increase in their subscription business.New MethodsFor some time the company had considered offering movies online, but it was only in the mid-2000s that data speeds and bandwidth costs had improved sufficiently to allow customers to download movies from the net. The original idea was a "Netflix box" that could download movies overnight, and be ready to watch the next day. By 2005, they had acquired movie rights and designed the box and service, and was ready to go public with it. But after discovering YouTube, and witnessing how popular streaming services were despite the lack of high-definition content, the concept of using a hardware device was scrapped and replaced with a streaming concept instead, a project that was completed in 2007.In February 2007, the company delivered its billionth DVD, and began to move away from its original core business model of DVDs, by introducing Video on demand via the Internet. Netflix grew as DVD sales fell from 2006 to 2011.Netflix stopped it’s DVD rental business from 2013 and started to rent/stream media contents purely through it’s set top boxes, it’s apps and to it’s monthly customers program . Currently DVD renting for Netflix is done by Qwikster.Blockbuster takes a hit1.Blockbuster’s biggest mistake was that it did not bought Netflix for 50 million$ back in 2000.2.Blockbuster’s another biggest mistake was that it did not shifted from to streaming from DVD rental business. It had clearly the upper hand, it had the money and the influence to do so. But still it did not materialize it.3.A billion-dollar campaign called Total Access was introduced in 2007 as a strategy against Netflix. Through Blockbuster Online customers could rent a DVD online and receive a new movie for free when they returned it to a Blockbuster store. While it was a major success every free movie cost the company two dollars, but the hope was that it would attract enough new subscribers to cover the loss. Netflix felt threatened, and Hastings approached Antioco with a suggestion to buy Blockbuster's online business. In return, a new system would be introduced where customers could return their movies to a Blockbuster store. Before the deal could be realized, investor Carl Icahn interfered. Icahn refused to let the company lose more money through Total Access. Antioco was pushed out and replaced with James Keyes, who rejected Hasting's proposal, raised the price on online DVD rentals and put an end to the free movie deal. As a consequence, Blockbuster Online's previously massive growth quickly stopped. In July Antioco left the company, reportedly due to continued controversy over his compensation. He left with a $24.7 million severance package.Netflix becomes innovativeNetflix started to do it’s own serials called "Netflix Original". In March 2011, Netflix began acquiring original content for its library, beginning with the hour-long political drama House of Cards, which debuted in February 2013. n late 2011, Netflix picked up two eight-episode seasons of Lilyhammer and a fourth season of the ex-Fox sitcom Arrested Development. Netflix has distributed over a dozen other animated family and kid shows, including All Hail King Julien, The Mr. Peabody & Sherman Show, Dawn of the Croods, Voltron: Legendary Defender, and Kulipari: An Army of Frogs. Orange Is the New Black debuted on the streaming service in July 2013, Netflix executives have commented that the show is Netflix's most-watched original series. In November 2013, Netflix and Marvel Television announced a five-season deal to produce live action Marvel superhero-focused series: Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Iron Fist and Luke Cage. The deal involves the release of four 13-episode seasons that culminate in a mini-series called The Defenders. Daredevil and Jessica Jones premiered in 2015.Current position of NetflixNetflix has currently have 11 subsidiaries. Netflix is currently worth over 100 billion US $ becoming the largest digital media and entertainment company in the world, bigger than every traditional media company except for AT&T, Comcast and Disney. Netflix has currently has 130 million subscribers coming from 130 different countries except Syria, China, Iraq, Somalia etc. In April 2017, Netflix confirmed it had reached a licensing deal in Mainland China for original Netflix content with iQiYi, a Chinese video streaming platform owned by Baidu.Thank YouFrom Swapnadeep Kapuri