Bed and Breakfast Guide Adds Instant Reservations to Website.Business Editors VANCOUVER, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 22, 2000 Now using the internet to find and reserve that quaint quaint adj. quaint·er, quaint·est 1. Charmingly odd, especially in an old-fashioned way: "Sarah Orne Jewett . . . B&B for your weekend getaway is even easier. International Bed and Breakfast Pages (IBBP IBBP International Bed and Breakfast Pages .com) announces online reservations capabilities directly from their website. IBBP contracts with Inntopia.com and Webervations.com, real-time online reservations systems, to provide electronic booking forms. Each inn listing on the IBBP website has the option to subscribe to Verb 1. subscribe to - receive or obtain regularly; "We take the Times every day" subscribe, take buy, purchase - obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction; "The family purchased a new car"; "The conglomerate acquired a new company"; either service. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. founder Yvonne Tornatta, "the reservations feature makes us a comprehensive inn-finding and booking service. It helps both innkeepers and travelers to streamline." Tornatta hopes to have the majority of IBBP listings on a reservations system within the next 18 months. Originally conceived as a starting point Noun 1. starting point - earliest limiting point terminus a quo commencement, get-go, offset, outset, showtime, starting time, beginning, start, kickoff, first - the time at which something is supposed to begin; "they got an early start"; "she knew from the for travelers seeking to compare accommodations before making travel plans, IBBP provides information on bed and breakfasts, inns, homesteads, farmsteads, cottages and villas located throughout the world. Formerly, once you found accommodations on the IBBP site, you called the inn to check availability and make reservations. Now, for those inns subscribing to the online booking service, a "make reservations now" icon leads to an electronic booking form. You can instantly check availability and confirm your stay. Traditionalists who'd rather reserve a room by phone will find the service useful too. "People who stay in B&Bs often like to contact the inn directly and ask questions," Tornatta says. "Even if travelers choose to book by phone, this system lets them know the inn has availability before they call." Based in Vancouver, Washington
Vancouver, Washington is a city on the north bank of the Columbia River, in the state of Washington, USA. It is the county seat of Clark County. , 5-year-old IBBP currently lists 1500 inns from 40 countries, adding 50-100 listings per month. The site appears in "Internet Cool Guide: A Savvy Savvy® Gynecology A contraceptive vaginal gel that ↓ transmission of STDs–eg, HIV, chlamydia, gonorrhea. See Contraceptive. Guide to the Best Destinations on the Web" (c. 1999, te Neues publishing). It was featured in the February 2000 London Times Sunday Travel section's "Essential On-Line Travel Sites." For more information, visit www.ibbp.com. |
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