Friendly E-News May 2003        www.australianhomestay.com www.australianfarmstay.com   www.aussiebandb.com   1.         Introduction. 2.         Statistics. 3.         E-News mailing List   1. Introduction.    We have been making steady progress upwards according to all of our performance measurement criteria.    This increased exposure will mean more business for our Hosts.    We have now broken the 100 visitor on average, a day level which is still less than 25% of our NZ web site’s daily visitor rate. That NZ web site has been building exposure for 6 years compared to www.australianhomestay.com which has been going only 9 months in its present form. So we are doing well.   We will continue to steadily progress upwards towards the NZ site’s performance level.   Booking requests will continue to increase as we gain more Hosts, create more Area Pages and market all of these to search engines.    We have now 17 Hosts either on the web site or being put there in the next few days.     2.   Australian website Statistics.  April 2003 compared to March 2003.   Total visitors to website:                        3,144 in April compared to 3,027 in March 2003.  Average visitors per day:                       104.8 per day, over 7% higher per day than March 2003. Total Countries visiting website:            50 over 8 % higher than March 2003. Bed nights requested in April:               127 compared to 27 in March 2003. Number Hosts receiving requests:        7 in April compared to 4 in March 2003   3.         E-News Mailing List   To join our Friendly E-News mailing list click here.