A hostel owner in a major Spanish city-center, who was re-evaluating his business plan, asked his manager to revamp back-office procedures to save costs, increase efficiency, and grow marketing efforts. All this was in preparation for anticipated growth for the next 5 years. After considering the objectives and making several changes, the manager eliminated 6 [...]
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Version 2.1 of the Instant Word Booking XML API has been released today. A new feature in this release is the ability to retrieve bookings (reservations) in XML format. This capability now completes Instant World Booking’s upgrade to a full-featured Calendar and Bookings XML interface. Capabilities of the interface now include the ability to: Get Calendar Availability/Allocations Set Calendar Availability/Allocations [...]
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Many hotels or hostels don’t want to manage yet another availability calendar. But, why is the instant booking calendar really better than the online request method? Instant World Booking has discussed this at some length, but for many hotels, the choice continues to be request-only. There are clear advantages to the instant booking method that far outweigh [...]
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Back in November 2008, we published a list of steps to increase your success with online marketing. There’s been so many new developments, we thought it was time to update this advice. If you are striving to enhance your online presence as a hotel, hostel or bed & breakfast, the following tips will help you [...]
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Are you tired of managing multiple calendars on multiple systems? Many hostels, hotels, and B&B’s we speak to are maintaining their calendar on at least half a dozen booking sites. One even recently sent us a timesheet indicating how many hours they spend managing calendars on each website. Now, you know that you’re spending a [...]
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We’re constantly getting questions on how our booking engine works for hostel and hotel websites. Not surprisingly, among the most frequently asked are questions concerning cost. Instant World Booking and HostelTraveler.com frequently disclose that the cost to a hostel or hotel for a fully-integrated booking engine is lower than all the competition. And, higher levels of [...]
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Want to go phishing? You’ll only catch some trouble. Instant World Booking’s fraud department has uncovered some attacks and scams that could cause you some serious trouble, so read on for how to keep your user ids and passwords safe. A recent “phishing” scam involves a fraudster’s attempt to duplicate a similar-looking webpage to our [...]
The following is a list of calendar management systems currently linking to Instant World Booking. What this means is that these 3rd party systems, whether CMS, Channel Management systems, availability calendars, property management, or front desk software systems, provide an interface to automatically update your calendar on the Instant World Booking network. http://www.IWBFrontDesk.com http://www.bookingexpert.it http://www.oldtownapartments.com http://myallocator.com/ http://www.bnbmanager.com ASSD Hotel [...]
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A special discount is now offered to Instant World Booking clients for trying the BnB Manager online property management service. An added benefit is that Instant World Booking now interfaces with BnB Manager, and you can automatically upload your availability to Instant World Booking from BnB Manager. BNB Manager offers 10% off the full first year cost to [...]
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Instant World Booking now offers a convenient new way to update availability calendars for hostels, hotels, and bed & breakfasts. Our XML API/interface for uploading calendar availability is available for: Property Managers Hostel chains and National Associations of lodgings Channel Management systems Other booking engines In fact, anyone who is tired of managing availability manually, [...]
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