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Robertthompson (talk) 14:09, 21 November 2016 (UTC) Boatbookings is an online yacht charter broker that offers thousands of charter yachts worldwide combined with personalized broker advice. Founded in 2006 by Tom Virden with the goal of making the yacht charter process simpler and more transparent, offers all types of charter boats, including crewed motor yachts, bareboat sailing boats, and crewed and bareboat catamarans. Boats range from day charters to super yachts.

Boatbookings provides personalized advice to it’s clients through it’s worldwide network of charter brokers based in the UK, South of France, Greece, Ft Lauderdale, FL, and Thailand. These brokers recommend boats and crews that meet the client’s charter goals, and suggest itineraries and provisioning options. Boatbookings also has expertise in Corporate Event Charters in Cannes and Monaco, for events such as MIPIM, the Cannes Film Festival and the Monaco Grand Prix. Boatbookings publishes testimonials and star ratings for many of its yachts, so customers can get a better understanding of the boat and crew.

Boatbookings has used technology extensively to enhance the charter process. Users can plot their itinerary and easily estimate distance, fuel consumption and cost of the trip. The company has created an extensive library of charter articles and destination guides to assist the charterer. The site also calculates carbon emissions from using the boats and has written extensively about green chartering.

The Boatbookings site was relaunched in 2015 as a fully responsive site designed to make it easy to charter a yacht on a mobile phone. The company also runs a number of sites focused on specific charter segments, including Stunningyachts.com (Luxury yachts), yacht-charter-bvi.com (charters in the British Virgin Islands), charterexpert.com (independent yacht ratings) and mydayboat.com (day boat rentals).