Peter and Suzanne Coster

The company Friendly Connections Ltd was originally created to promote the Farm and Home Hosting Experience in New Zealand, to a World Wide audience. It then expanded that concept to include promotion of Bed and Breakfast accommodation, Guest Houses and Self Contained Accommodation in New Zealand and Australia.

In August 2002, Friendly Connections Ltd sold its developing Australian web site to Peter Coster, the original founder of Friendly Connections Ltd.

The new Australian web site www.australianhomestay.com and www.australianfarmstay.com is now operated by some of the original directors of Friendly Connections through Accommodation Promotion Services Ltd. These Directors now wish to make all their years if experience on the Internet available for the benefit of Australian Hosts.

Peter and Suzanne Coster were originally Homestay Hosts in New Zealand for many years and moved into promoting other Homestay Host's accommodation on the Internet by forming Friendly Connections Ltd in 1997.

Since that time they have created a reliable and creative team through working with Digiweb NZ Ltd as their providers and Hairy Lemon Web Solutions Ltd as web designers This team will be still available to support Accommodation Promotion Services Ltd in its Australian role. Peter and Suzanne can be contacted at info@australianhomestay.com at any time.

Friendly Connections Ltd and Accommodation Promotion Services Ltd successfully introduced a fully automated “immediate booking confirmation system” on both web sites in August of 2003.

All enhancements are designed to ensure that the sites are easy to navigate and the booking of accommodation is a simple task.