What is the lowest cost on the internet for a fully-customizable booking engine for your website?

We have the answer: 1.9%. That’s because Instant World Booking also offers a basic service option with the lowest price available anywhere. And, that still includes online bookings combined with credit card confirmation for your website.

In fact, we offer a range of pricing options starting at the industry-low of 1.9%, offering integrated bookings and credit card deposits all the way up to full collection of the reservation amount up-front. Contact us today to learn more about pricing options and an online booking solution that’s perfect for your business.

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Instant World Booking now features a great new service for free marketing of hotels, hostels and bed & breakfasts.  You’re invited to post your videos on our blogs.  This is an excellent way to maximize your online marketing presence, and yet another free service that Instant World Booking offers (boy, we love giving away free stuff).  You don’t even need to have a listing on our service.

If you wish to post your videos on one of our blogs, it’s easy.  Just decide which blog you wish to post to:

For hotels of all kinds:

 - Instant World Booking (you’re here)

For hostels and budget lodging:

 - HostelTraveler.com (go to the HostelTraveler.com homepage, and proceed to the blog)

For bed and breakfasts:

 - BedBreakfastTraveler.com (go to the BedBreakfastTraveler.com homepage, and proceed to the blog)

Instructions for posting videos on our blog:

Our Blog allows you to share YouTube videos with ease, and supports the latest high quality video protocols (360p and HD quality 720p).  It will even be viewable on iPod and iPhone.

Step 1:  Register at our blog:

http://www.instantworldbooking.com/blog_iw/wp-login.php?action=register

Step 2:  Submit a post about your property at the following page:

http://www.instantworldbooking.com/blog_iw/category/hotel-videos/

Step 3:  Insert a video link in your post

To insert a YouTube video in your posts, paste the YouTube video URL directly into the text of your post with a prefix of httpv:// (notice the ‘v’).

Important:The URL should just be copied into your post normally and the letter ‘v’ added, do not create a clickable link (i.e., with <a> tags)!

Example:  httpv ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKjgajXePd8

If you want to embed high quality video (for videos that have them) use httpvh:// instead (Video High).

If you want to embed HD Quality (DVD quality 720p) video use httpvhd:// instead (Video High Defintion).

To embed playlists use httpvp:// (eg. httpvp ://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=528026B4F7B34094)

-  httpv:// - regular video

-  httpvh:// - high quality

-  httpvhd:// - HD quality

-  httpvp:// - playlist

Want to increase your exposure online? Visit these 10 free places to list your hostel online and get additional exposure on the Internet:

1. World66.com
2. Wikitravel.org
3. Yelp.com (USA)
4. Google Local
5. Yahoo Local
6. 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 at the bottom of the page.
7. HostelLinks.com
8. HostelGuide.de
9. Backpackers-planet.com
10. HostelManagement.com

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 feature is free, and as always, maintaining a listing with the Instant World Booking is free.

So what does this mean exactly. We have a again pushed above the service level of competing booking services. Look at typical hotel pages on most services. You’ll see maybe 6 or 7 of a property’s best photos, in a small image barely larger than a thumbnail. This does very little to sell your rooms and beds.

If you’ve been advertising your hotel, hostel, or bed and breakfast on the web for a while, you know that photos sell rooms! And, the more photos you have the better. Don’t include just photos of your guestrooms, but of all areas of your property. Give a real sense of what it’s like to stay in your hotel. And what about your environment? Include photos of the surrounding neighborhood and views from your property. This really sells rooms.

To add your photos, simply sign in to your listing at Instant World Booking, and proceed to the MANAGE PHOTOS page. You can upload an unlimited number of images. And, you can submit images as large as 8MB! No more re-sizing and touching up your photos. Our enhanced system will handle that for you. As a bonus, don’t worry about the format of your pictures, you can now submit JPEG/JPG, PNG, and GIF images.

So get online today, and add your photos. Remember, good photos increase reservations. If it’s been awhile since you’ve refreshed your pics, get your camera out, and start taking new photos.

As always, Instant World Booking looks forward to seeing you on the web. To get listed with our network, simply go to:

http://www.instantworldbooking.com/listings/add_listing.php