Recipe for Effective Packaging

Marti Mayne

Take one lovely B&B, and blend in an area event or attraction.  Add two nights lodging, plenty of romance and tasty meals. Stir in all degrees of enthusiasm, and you’ve got a winning recipe for a package.  Forget the key ingredients, and you’ll get half-baked results.  Read more...

Sandy Soule

About Our Sponsor

Professional Association of Innkeepers International (PAII), the largest professional association supporting innkeepers, provides information, education and business networking to its members.  Join us for the regional conference in Lancaster, PA (April 4-6). Whether you're new to innkeeping or a veteran innkeeper, PAII conferences can help you improve your operations and your bottom line. www.paii.org.

Our Members Speak Out

Email your responses to InnkeeperNews@BedandBreakfast.com. If we publish your comments, we'll thank you with a $25 credit in our Featured Properties Auction program!

Get three, six, nine, twelve months of BedandBreakfast.com FREE!

Save hundreds of dollars in membership costs with the BedandBreakfast.com Member Referral Program.  For every new member you recommend for BedandBreakfast.com membership, you get three months free!  Encourage four properties to join, and you get a full year absolutely free!  Log In here with your password & property ID for details.

Best of BedandBreakfast.com Awards Program

Only two months left for your guests to vote in the 2005 Best of BedandBreakfast.com awards! For 2005 we want to double or triple the number of award-winning inns, but can do so only if you encourage guests to vote by adding the voting badge to your website, and by distributing voting forms. Over 12,000 votes have already been tallied. Don't miss out on this great B&B marketing opportunity!

Promoting the Industry

Calendar of Events

Click here for a list of upcoming state B&B association meetings. We've noted when a member of the BedandBreakfast.com team will be attending, and look forward to meeting you! Be sure to email us if your state meeting is not on the list. If you have not yet finalized your conference agenda, let us know: we still have a few dates available when BedandBreakfast.com staff members are available to speak.

Time for a Smile

We all know about Murphy’s Law: “ If anything can go wrong -- it will.  Click here  to read some entertaining corollaries and revisions.  We invite you to submit your own “if Murphy was an innkeeper” versions, too! 

Travel Trends

Gen Xers now spend more per trip than Baby Boomers:  In 2004, “the 60 million Americans from age 25 to 40 spent an estimated $2,140 per capita on overall travel involving a hotel stay, vs. boomers' $2,016, according to a preliminary estimate from travel researcher D.K. Shifflet & Associates. The larger boomer population still dominates on a total dollar basis — about $157 billion last year, vs. $130 billion for Xers.”   Read more…   

Advertising Auctions

BedandBreakfast.com Featured Property Auctions are an affordable and effective way to drive traffic to your website.  Auto Billing makes it easy for you to maintain a positive balance in your auction account at all times. The Inn of the Month averages double the click-through rates of the other B&Bs on the same city page, because of these significant benefits: Top placement on your city page Larger photo Custom marketing message Highlighted frame Try it and see for yourself! Read more...   Sarah  Kendall House, Newport, RI

This Month's Sponsor

Online Trade Show

Click to visit our vendor members:

• BB-4-sale.com
• Bath Plus Inc
• B&B Team Realtors
• Big Kahuna Hawaiian Coffee
• Clawfoot Supply
• DVTour.com
• Earthly Delight Soap
• Inn Broker, Inc.
• Inn Connections, LLC
• Innkeeping Specialists
• Innstyle
• InSPAration
• New England Inn Brokers
• Northwest B&B Inn Consulting
• RusticDecorating.com
• B&B Team Realtors
• Topica

More vendor info...

Gift Certificates

BedandBreakfast.com Gift Certificates have changed to an electronic format. Funds for redeemed certificates will be transferred directly into your bank account within four business days! No more certificates to mail! Don't miss out! To join the 3600 participating inns, just log in to your home base with your property ID and password, or click here for more information.

Traffic statistics

Log in with your property ID and password for details on the number of page impressions and click-throughs your B&B has received as a result of all BedandBreakfast.com online marketing, including property listings, Featured Property, and Inn of the Month advertising. More information

Member Information

To update your entry, post specials, and renew your membership, please log in with your property ID and password. Can't remember your password? Click here, then enter your property ID and we'll email it to you. Don't like your password? Once you're logged in to Home Base, just click "Membership," select "change password" (#7 in dropdown menu), and choose another that's easier to remember. More information

Inns for Sale

"We advertised our B&B in your Inns for Sale section in January, and started getting inquires a week later. In February, a couple came from Florida to visit us in Cat Spring, Texas. We made a deal, and they begin officially on April the 5th as the new owners. What you are doing really works." Sunny and John Snyder. Email us today and we'll put you on our special offer mailing list.  Read more...

Online Bookings

Taking real-time, online reservations is the most effective way to transform your BedandBreakfast.com listing into a 24/7 sales engine.  For details, log in to your home base with your property ID and password, and click “Online Reservations.”

Innkeepers Information Center

Need more info? You’ll find lots of educational articles on our site for your convenience.

•  Resource Library
•  Member Checklist