Friendly E-News July 2003 

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1.         Introduction.

2.         Statistics.

3.         Developments.

4.         E-News mailing List.

1. Introduction.

During June 2003 www.australianhomestay.com  averaged 109 visitors a day.

2.   Australian website Statistics.  June 2003 compared to May 2003. 

Total Countries visiting website:             53 compared to 52 in May 2003.

Hosts receiving Booking Requests:        7 compared to 2 in May 2003.

Bed nights requested:                           405 compared to 520 in May 2003.*

Number of countries making

Bed night requests:                               8 compared to 2 in May 2003.     

* One request in May was for a large number of bed nights.      

3.   Developments

All of the Hosts on our web site will receive their personal letter by airmail, explaining the update to our new fully automated immediate confirmed booking system, by the end of this week the 6th of July 2003. The new system will be go live on the 1st of August 2003.

We have requested that each Host complete their Agreement Form and their Room Description Form and then to post these back to us in the stamped addressed envelope provided, before the 01/08/2003.

All of our new Queensland Hosts are now on www.australianhomestay.com and two new Area Pages have been created for them at ‘Brisbane’ and ‘Brisbane Hinterland’.

We have been given approval to use information including texts, photos and Maps with which to create a ‘South Australia Page’ and an ‘Adelaide Page’ by Tourism South Australia. Work is proceeding on these.  Our new South Australian Hosts will be listed on these soon.

Note.  The Bed and Breakfast and Farmstay Assn of NSW are holding their conference in Sydney on the 27^th and 28^th of August 2003.  Go to:   

www.sydneysbestbandbs.com.au/2003conference/index.html

to see their web site and learn all about this interesting conference.