What is Belizing.com? Belizing.com is an online tourism and travel service marketplace where any authorized individual or entity in Belize can list their services and engage with online users and accept payment for their services. Our aim is to connect local service providers with qualified online leads and turn online visitors into customers.
Belizing.com’s mission is centered around
Sustainable Tourism and making a positive impact on Belize’s environment, society, and economy by promoting the tourism product. Belizing.com can be best described as a disruptive innovation in Belize due to its innovative online business model and its unique appeal to local tourism service providers as well as tourists. The prevalent model for booking service in Belize is via email or filling out a contact form and waiting for payment until the customer arrives in Belize. This is an outdated model, causing service providers to lose conversions. Through our market survey of tourists in Belize, we found that the most important thing they look for is a professional-looking website and a secure website for online payment. Unfortunately, the facility and resources are not readily available in Belize to enable safe and secure online payments. Belizing.com changes this model and is postured to positively disrupt the industry by ushering in a modern era of true online payments for the tourism service industry in Belize in one central place.
Belizing.com is built and supported by a team of local programmers and backed by business investment and mentorship from business people with decades of experience in Belize. The web service is hosted in data centers in the United States, and payments are processed via a secure payment gateway with full PCI card payment industry compliance and certification. Trust, security, and professionalism are the hallmarks of our online service that we hope will have tremendous benefits to the tourism industry and Belize’s economy as a whole.
Belizing.com is set to usher in significant transformation in the Tourism Industry in Belize. We are a newly minted and proud member of the Belize Tourism Industry Association (BTIA) and the Belize Chamber of Commerce. This year’s BTIA Annual General Meeting is under the theme “Innovation and Sustainability”. These values are at the core of Belizing.com’s mission. We are introducing an innovative platform, which is open to every sector of the Belize tourism industry. We believe strongly in sustainable tourism and making a positive impact on the Belizean environment, society, and economy.
Environmental Impact. Belizing.com has a goal to set aside a portion of every booking to be contributed to environmental conservation causes as well as charitable causes throughout Belize. At the end of our first year, we will be looking forward to introducing a grant program to make contributions to causes identified by our members. Details of this program will be forthcoming.
Societal & Economic Impact. Belizing.com’s staff is completely based in Belize, and we currently employ a staff of 7 Belizeans with an ambitious plan to expand that staff as the platform takes off. Additionally, we are enabling easy and convenient entry into online marketing for every single service provider in Belize. Everyone from licensed tour guides and tour operators, shuttle providers, destination wedding service providers (including local wedding planners, photographers, florists, caterers, craft makers, cake decorators, etc.), and many other stakeholders in the tourism industry can list their services on Belizing.com to attract new customers. In general, we enable more Belizeans to market their products, talents, and services online to a worldwide audience.
By marketing Belizing.com and all its service providers, we are marketing Belize as a destination to worldwide travelers. Our hope is that this will contribute significantly to the economy by bringing in more visitors, and providing opportunities to service providers who would otherwise find it difficult and out of reach to engage in digital marketing and other practices to engage and convert online visitors into paying customers. When Belizing.com is successful, Belize will be successful. We are calling on all tourism service providers and stakeholders in the industry to take a look at what we offer and sign up if they feel that our service will be a good fit for their business.