Patent ID: 8090602

Claim:
A computerized method executed in a processor of an encounter generator for merchandising, to a community of subscribers, commercial attractions offered by at least one attraction provider server, the method comprising: receiving in the processor of the encounter generator the commercial attractions from the at least one attraction provider server and presenting, by the processor of the encounter generator, the commercial attractions to subscriber terminals of subscribers of the community; receiving in the processor of the encounter generator a wish-list from a respective subscriber terminal of each participating subscriber of a plurality of participating subscribers from the community, said wish-list including at least a ranking of said participating subscriber's level of interest in each attraction of a plurality of attractions of the commercial attractions; generating in the processor of the encounter generator an encounter in response to at least said rankings received from said plurality of participating subscribers, said generating including: picking, from said plurality of participating subscribers, an ensemble of subscribers for said encounter, said ensemble consisting of less subscribers than said plurality of participating subscribers, and assigning an attraction of the ranked commercial attractions to said ensemble; presenting said encounter to respective subscriber terminals of said ensemble's subscribers; and booking said attraction, for said ensemble, by the processor of the encounter generator, at the at least one attraction provider server.