Re: innkeeping: Local Association Chamber Membership

[Huntington Hall <hhallbnb@grove.net>]

At 08:44 PM 6/16/97 -0400, you wrote:
>
>A group of local innkeepers in our area are in the early stages of
>forming a B&B association, organized as a non-profit.  We are stumbling
>with our local Chamber of Commerce as they hesitant to allow our group
>to join.  The Chamber is concerned that the individual inns will not
>renew their membership with the chamber if the association is a member. 
>This is not our intent what so ever, each inn will still maintain its
>individual representation at the chamber.
>
>My question is this: how many other B&B Associations, state or local,
>belong to their chamber as a group and/or individually?  
>-- 
>Robin & Todd Norman
>Woods Hole Passage Bed & Breakfast Inn
>http://www.ccsnet.com/whpassage
>
>Dear Robin & Todd:

North Carolina Bed & Breakfasts and Inns does not belong to any individual
state or local chambers, however we are a member of several statewide
travel/lodging associations. If each inn pays its own dues to the chamber,
then the chamber should represent that inn individually. If the chamber
allows the association to join, then it should promote the association, 
not
the individual membership unless they have paid  individually, also. Do 
you
have a state B&B association? If you are forming the group just for
advertising benefits, then non profit may be hard to obtain. NC is in the
process now. We have been challenged once by the IRS and have resubmitted
the application with 15 pages of attachments describing our organizations
doings. Let us know if we can help.

Sincerely,

Bob DeLong, President
North Carolina Bed & Breakfast and Inns
Huntington Hall Bed and Breakfast
500 Valley River Ave.
Murphy, North Carolina  28906
(800)824-6189
fax (704)837-2527
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