Re: innkeeping: State-Association-Wide Gift Certificates

[Rod Dakan <rdakan@aone.com>]

I am President of the Washington Bed & Breakfast Guild and we are also
thinking about a State Wide Gift Certificate program.  If you would be
willing to share the information that you have gathered with me I would
gladly reimburse you for your expenses.

One stumbling block that we have is that some of our members feel that
the state program would interfere with their own sales of certificates. 
And some of our members will not pay a commission on weekends. Our
present outline would reimburse the inn 90% when the certificate was
redeimed.

Thanks for any assistance

Rod Dakan


Frances Walker wrote: 
>  Our Illinois B&B Assoc Administrator (who does not have internet access)
> has asked me to ask for your help. We are contemplating trying a
> state-wide
> gift certificate and she would like to hear from those states who have
> such
> programs. In great detail, and your evaluation of how well they work. She
> already has material from CA, MO, WI, and IA. Anyone else who has a plan,
> please send by mail to IBBA, P. O. Box 82, Port Byron, IL 61275, by FAX to
> 309/523-2349 or phone 309/523-24306. We would all like to profit from your
> experience.
>         TIA, Frances
> 
> *****************Frances Walker  <sassybb@siu.edu>**************
>                   Sassafras Ridge Bed & Breakfast
>   in the "front woods" 5 miles south of Carbondale, Illinois
> **************************618/529-5261**************************