{"id":8099,"date":"2018-07-06T11:44:49","date_gmt":"2018-07-06T01:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/?p=8099"},"modified":"2018-07-06T14:16:52","modified_gmt":"2018-07-06T04:16:52","slug":"book-a-court-paying-off-for-lindisfarne-memorial-tennis-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/news\/2018\/07\/06\/book-a-court-paying-off-for-lindisfarne-memorial-tennis-club","title":{"rendered":"Book A Court paying off for Lindisfarne Memorial Tennis Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lindisfarne Memorial Tennis Club is the first in Tasmania to implement an innovative new online court booking platform &#8211; and it is already proving a winning move.<\/p>\n<p>Within eight weeks of launching Book A Court in May, the Lindisfarne Memorial Tennis Club had received close to 400 court bookings and already surpassed the profit made from court hire in the previous 12 months.<\/p>\n<p>Book a Court is an online booking and payment platform that connects with pin pad technology on a club\u2019s gate. Anyone is able to hire a court online, which gives them a unique pin code to access the facilities during their booked time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/clubs\/book-a-court\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&gt; Learn more about the Book A Court system<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Peter Hobday, who led the Hobart-based club&#8217;s push to introduce Book A Court, has been impressed with both the community response and the benefits for the club.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It saves on volunteers, is easy to monitor and gives great statistics,&#8221; Hobday said.<\/p>\n<p>Court hire for coaching sessions has made up about 60 per cent of bookings recorded at the club, while 52 non-member bookings highlight the system is also making it more accessible for the general public to hire courts.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Book a Court comes to Tassie | Tennis Tasmania\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HmbMszaozh8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Four more Tasmanian clubs are aiming to have the Book A Court platform live by August, with Sorell, Richmond, Glenorchy and Devonport all currently installing the system.<\/p>\n<p>Tennis Tasmania&#8217;s Club Development Coordinator Simonne Allwright is excited clubs are embracing the technology.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is great value in the data that clubs can capture through the Book A Court system. It allows them to track visitation numbers and have a better understanding of who is using their courts. This added knowledge can be used to strengthen grant applications and allow clubs to tailor offerings,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is flexible and convenient to use too \u2013 providing the best outcome of encouraging more people to get out and play tennis more often.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Is your club interested in Book A Court? <a href=\"mailto:SAllwright@Tennis.com.au\">Contact Simonne<\/a> to find out how to make it happen.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book A Court helps club match a year&#8217;s worth of court hire profit within eight weeks. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6028,"featured_media":8100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[81,83,82,73,72],"class_list":["post-8099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-book-a-court","tag-innovation","tag-lindisfarne-memorial-tennis-club","tag-news","tag-simonne-allwright"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}