How Much is Your Hotel or Bed & Breakfast Worth? Part 1 2008-09-01 19:18:44 This is the first in a series of articles which will enable you to answer the most fundamental of questions: How much is your hotel or bed and breakfast worth?
Protecting the value of your small hotel or bed and breakfast is a primary goal of your business. But, whether you’re new to the lodging business, [...] Read more:Breakfast
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Top 10 Reasons InstantWorldBooking.com Outperforms other Online Booking Engines 2008-08-19 19:57:54 Why is InstantWorldBooking
.com better for online booking and marketing your property? The answer is simple. We bring more features, better technology, and lower costs than any competing provider.
It is widely known that a correctly executed online booking and marketing strategy can increase a lodging’s profit margin by at least 20% in the first year. Here [...] Read more:Reasons
Demonstrate Special Care for your Guests’ Safety and Security 2008-08-16 20:38:42 One way to gain respect and attention among your guests (and peers) is to display special concern for the safety and security of your guests. On everyone’s mind these days is safety, especially while travelling. Global terrorism threats and international tensions are heightened. We all know about increased security at airports and rail terminals.
While the topic may not be [...] Read more:Demonstrate
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Top 6 Questions to Ask Before Installing a Booking Engine on Your Website 2008-07-27 13:31:11 1) Can you collect more than 10% deposit online, or as much as 100% of the entire reservation?
2) Are bookings confirmed automatically online, or is manual review or intervention required?
3) Do you have no-show and cancellation protection?
4) Can you avoid having to obtain your own costly merchant account, and having to contend [...] Read more:Booking
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Should you Affiliate? - How Affiliate Programs Can Increase Profitability of your Hotel Website 2008-07-06 13:50:45 Should you affiliate? The short answer is yes. But, let’s start by explaining what affiliating means. As a small hotel, hostel, or bed and breakfast owner, you should not fear affiliation. No, it does not mean that you are becoming business partners with someone, or selling shares in your lodging business.
Affiliation in internet-parlance simply means [...] Read more:Affiliate
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Introduction 2008-06-09 04:13:08 Welcome to InstantWorldBooking.com’s Hotel and Hostel Marketing Experts Blog. Here, our renowned contributing travel and tourism writers will bring you the latest intelligence for running and marketing your hotel, youth hostel, or bed and breakfast. You will find indispensible advice and guidance on marketing your property online.
At Instant World Booking, we lead in services that incre Read more:Introduction
How Much Deposit Should You Collect from Guests for Online Bookings 2008-10-07 06:35:40 Everyone knows how online booking works these days. A small deposit is collected from the guest at the time of confirmation. If you use one of the services that requires you to manually confirm bookings, contact your guests, and get deposit monies yourself, then your booking method is still in the stone ages. And believe [...] Read more:Collect
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How to Avoid Email Internet Scams Targeting Small Businesses 2008-10-14 07:08:47 Scams abound on the internet, and scammers usually send email to small hotels, bed and breakfasts, and other small businesses
The scammer’s goal is to get the hotel owner to send money to the scammer. Scammers will make a reservation, and request to overpay it with either a credit card or forged check. They’ll claim that the check was already made [...] Read more:Avoid
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New Feature - Add As Many Photos as you Want on the Web 2008-11-16 09:48:56 Instant World Booking is working hard to continue to innovate and lead online booking technology around the globe. Our latest innovation is a simple one, but unmatched elsewhere for online reservation services.
Hotels and hostels who advertise on our network can now upload an unlimited number of photos to their listing. You heard right — Unlimited! This [...]
How To Increase Bookings with Online Advertising 2008-11-09 12:24:34 If you list your hotel, hostel, or bed and breakfast with Instant World Booking, or other online booking agencies, here is some advice for maximizing your reservation potential:
1) Ensure your listing is up to date and accurate. Include as much information as possible, not only about your property, but also about local attractions, restaurants, etc.
2) [...] Read more:Advertising
Hotel and Hostel Information Translated into 14 Languages 2008-12-14 20:24:16 Instant World Booking wants to introduce a major enhancement in service to our hotel, hostel, and B&B partners worldwide. Now, when you list your property with us, we translate the information you submit into 14 different languages. We then publish your property on 14 individual multi-lingual webpages, each featuring only your property.
This is a major level [...] Read more:Hostel
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10 Free Places to add your Hotel or Hostel Website Online 2008-12-01 09:44:47 Want to increase your exposure online? Visit these 10 free places to list your hostel online and get additional exposure on the Internet:
World66.com
Wikitravel.org
Yelp.com (USA)
Google Local
Yahoo Local
Yahoo Travel — either find your hostel in the listings and look for an edit link or go to the home page and look for the suggest a hotel link [...] Read more:Hostel
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