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Thomas Joseph Lynch
My wife, Daughn Spahn, and I own the Spahn House Bed and Breakfast, 4-star historic inn located just south of Memphis, Tennessee in Northwest Mississippi. Our property is a 1904 old-style Neo-Classical mansion that preserves some of the best architectural and craftsman features of its time. We have 5 guest rooms with 12 foot ceilings, crown molding and transom doors. Open invitation to all in this forum to come see us!
Hi Gillian:
I beleive there is a niche for a separate booking site that is limited to and curated by B&B operators and owners. It would be a welcome change to be compared to and with other B&Bs, to be able to charge accordingly to customers who look for and appreciate the unique B&B niche.and to have a network of cross-referring locations
I will continue to explore such an option.
Hi Jay: I get the Rate Intelligence Report daily through what BDC calls the "Booking Suite". I don't think you have to be a preferred partner to get it.
However, it isn't that helpful to me because it is driven exclusively by price and compares me to regional hotels/motels that are all standard cookie-cutters with 50+ rooms and by an interstate.
Again, BDC is an ineffective model for B&B's because we are apples to oranges.
Thanks for the input. Villas.com was a vacation home site and nothing to do with B&B's. It was an early effort at the "homeaway" concept carried out poorly.
People who search specifically for B&B's do not search on BDC. If you accept my premise that B&B's are a unique subset of travel destinations then they do not fit well in the BDC model. The question of us and DBC is the same: how to maximize visibility, stays and $$.