Luke M. Davis on January 3rd, 2012

Instant World Booking is pleased to announce the release of IWB Channel Manager. IWB Channel Manager enables hotels, hostels, and bed & breakfasts to upload their calendar of availability to many distribution sites at once.  Manage your calendar only once, but populate multiple booking sites simultaneously. The advantage is incredible time savings and convenience.  Hours [...]

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Luke M. Davis on December 11th, 2011

Attention Travel Agents:  Please see the following page for more information on our travel agent program.  It’s really easy, costs nothing, and you can earn 25% of the commissions you bring in: http://www.instantworldbooking.com/travel-agents.phpLink to this post!

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Luke M. Davis on May 31st, 2011

You’re Paying Too Much for Your Website Booking Engine How do we know? Because Instant World Booking offers the lowest cost online reservation system available for any accommodation website. Fact. Our booking engine offers a lower cost, and even more pricing options, than any other system. So look no further. Did we mention that IWB’s [...]

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Luke M. Davis on April 19th, 2011

We are proud to announce the release of version 3.2 of the Instant World Booking XML API.  This release includes new Get Bookings (Reservations) features and Calendar Allocation features. Previously, the “getbookings” function allowed limited ability to request reservations for specific dates.  Now, since version 3.1 (released April 3, 2011), new selection criteria have been added [...]

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Luke M. Davis on April 17th, 2011

Instant World Booking recently announced the soon-to-be-released IWBFrontDesk, a brand new full-featured property management system (PMS or Front Desk System).  Subscribers to Instant World Booking’s services, and our insider’s distribution list, have been the first to learn of this new product, which promises substantial savings for hotel owners, hostel managers and innkeepers alike.  Our core principles and technology platform have [...]

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Grace L. Suryani on March 28th, 2011

Countdown to Savings … Try a New Front Desk System IWBFrontDesk, a new property management system (PMS), will be available in just over 30 days. Designed as an alternative to products like RezOvation ®, Webervations ®, SuperInn, Resnexus ®, Hostel Power, HostelMate, etc., IWBFrontDesk has one major advantage: Savings of 30% or more over many [...]

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Grace L. Suryani on February 15th, 2011

New for 2011, we are proud to announce the release of version 3.0 of Instant World Booking’s XML API Guide.  This is a major release, now featuring full XML support for white-label affiliate programs. Instant World Booking’s affiliate programs are suitable for any website where travel and accommodation content is desired, including the ability to [...]

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Grace L. Suryani on October 29th, 2010

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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Luke M. Davis on October 22nd, 2010

Of all the marketing services you can subscribe to, IWB offer more free stuff than anyone else: Only Instant World Booking gives you up to 15 or more unique search engine-optimized pages just for your property, each page translated to a different language.  You probably don’t even have this on your own website, let alone [...]

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Grace L. Suryani on July 17th, 2010

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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