Calendar of Events

July
July 20-23 Louisiana/Mississippi Bed and Breakfast Associations, New Orleans. Information: Sharon Vennen, 225-590-3084 or LBBA@cox.net.

June 22 South Region HAT, Inn on the Riverwalk, San Antonio, TX. Information: Carol Davis, carol@blisswood.net, 713-301-3235. Speaking: Eric Goldreyer.

August
August 24-26 Hospitality Accommodation of Texas (HAT), Round Rock. Information: info@hat.org, 800-HAT-0368. Speaking: Sandy Soule. Internet Intensive.

September
September 21-22 Florida Bed & Breakfast Inns (FBBI), Chalet Suzanne, Lake Wales. Information: 800-524-1880. Speaking: Sandy Soule, Patty Crowe. Internet Intensive.

October
October 27-28 Maine Innkeepers Association (MEIA), Sebasco Estates. Information: julie@maineinns.com, 207-865-6100.

October 27-28 Michigan Lake to Lake B&B Association, Grand Rapids, MI. Information: innfo@laketolake.com, 616-575-1610.

November
November 9-11 Select Registry, Williamsburg, VA. Information: maincontact@selectregistry.com. Speaking: Eric Goldreyer.

November 11-13 Empire State Bed and Breakfast Association, The Thayer Hotel, West Point, NY. Speaking: Sandy Soule. Internet Intensive.

January 2009
January 11-13 Tri-State Conference. French Lick Resort, French Lick, IN. Information: info@indianabedandbreakfast.org, 1-877-846-4222. Internet Intensive.

January 11-14 Mid-Atlantic Innkeepers, The Homestead, Hot Springs, VA. Information: 540-463-7247, coordinator@MidAtlanticInnkeepers.com. Speaking: Sandy Soule. Internet Intensive.

January 18-20 Bed and Breakfast Association of Alabama, Lake Guntersville State Park Lodge. Information: Mary Hightower, info@columbusstreetinn.com.

January 18-25 Seminars at Sea. Information: innsales@charter.net, 800-871-8977.

March 2009
March 14-15 B&B Expo, Brussels, Belgium.

March 30-April 4 PAII Conference & Tradeshow, Atlanta, GA. Information: 800-468-7244.

Need vendors? For a successful trade show and happy vendors, we have some recommendations: Offer a two-hour reception with hors d’oeuvres and a cash bar in the trade show area, typically from about 4-6 or 5-7 to kick off your conference. On the next day, offer a two-hour block of time (with no competing workshops) for vendors, perhaps after lunch. Reliable high-speed Internet access is essential. Fifteen minutes between workshops is inadequate for all concerned; recent conference evaluations show that innkeepers are placing an increasingly high value on vendor time. Feel free to contact Sandy@BedandBreakfast.com or Janice@BedandBreakfast.com for advice.

Planning ahead? Email Sandy@BedandBreakfast.com so we can start telling folks about your upcoming conference. We highly recommend adding a conference information page to your state association website so we can link directly to it. These listings are a free service of BedandBreakfast.com.

Need Speakers? BedandBreakfast.com can help make your state or regional meeting a success. Eric Goldreyer, Sandy Soule, Tim Wilson, Janice Hurley, John Banczak and Marti Mayne are available to lead educational workshops on a wide variety of topics, including internet marketing, email effectiveness, customer service, promoting and publicizing your B&B, and lots more. Ben Littler, Product Manager for RezOvation, is available to lead user group sessions that will help you get the most out of your software.

ELG Hospitality open house: Thank you to all the Texas innkeepers who attended our open house June 11 in downtown Austin. We really enjoyed visiting with you, and we hope you had fun touring the office and meeting with the staff! We hope to see you next year!

European B&B trip: In March, Eric Goldreyer, Janice Hurley and Sandy Soule traveled to Europe to attend the B&B Expo in Brussels. More than 20,000 European travelers were there to learn about vacation destinations.

While there, BedandBreakfast.com hosted Internet Intensive workshops in Brussels, London and Amsterdam. No one else travels the way BedandBreakfast.com staffers do. We hope to see you soon at a conference or Internet Intensive workshop! Here are a few pictures from the European trip.

Eric and Sandy at the B&B Expo in Brussels	Sandy, Eric and Janice

PAII Conference 2008: The teams at BedandBreakfast.com, Inns.com and RezOvation attended the PAII Conference in April.

L-R: Sandy Soule, John Banczak, Marti Mayne, Patty Crowe, Janice Hurley, Tom Beattie, Ben Littler, Tim Wilson, Drew Jones, Eric Goldreyer

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