Patent ID: 8260641

Claim:
A system usable by an attraction provider for merchandising commercial attractions to a community of subscribers, the system comprising: (i) an attraction provider server, and (ii) an encounter generator server; said attraction provider server and said encounter generator server configured to cooperate for merchandising commercial attractions to subscribers of the community by: said attraction provider server providing commercial attractions to said encounter generator server; said encounter generator server receiving commercial attractions from said attraction provider server and storing the received commercial attractions in an attraction database; said encounter generator server presenting commercial attractions provided by said attraction provider server to subscriber terminals of subscribers of the community, and receiving, from a subscriber terminal of each participating subscriber of a plurality of participating subscribers of the community, a ranking of said each participating subscriber's interest in commercial attractions provided by said attraction provider server; a processor of said encounter generator server generating an encounter by: picking from said plurality of participating subscribers, in response to at least said rankings received from said plurality of participating subscribers, an ensemble of at least two subscribers and less than said plurality of participating subscribers, and assigning to said ensemble an assigned attraction from the commercial attractions provided by said attraction provider server; and said attraction provider server booking said assigned attraction for said ensemble.