BedandBreakfast.com

Infobox_Website
url = http://www.bedandbreakfast.com
name = BedandBreakfast.com
origin = Austin, Texas


caption = Homepage of BedandBreakfast.com
commercial = Yes
type = Travel Agency
registration = No
location = Austin, Texas, USA
owner = Eric Goldreyer

BedandBreakfast.com is an Internet-based Bed and Breakfast directory and travel agency, part of ELG Hospitality, Inc., headquartered in Austin, Texas, USA. It displays information on roughly 6,500 bed and breakfasts, and enables bed and breakfast and inns reservations, and sells gift certificates redeamable at 4,000 Inns and B&Bs across the United States and Canada on its website and through retailers like Wal-mart, CVS Pharmacy, Safeway, and Office Depot. BedandBreakfast.com serves customers worldwide via the World Wide Web and through telephone travel agents. Founded in 1995 by Eric Goldreyer under the name Inns and Outs, the company acquired the url BedandBreakfast.com in 1998 and changed its name to match. The company was sold to Worldres, Inc. based in San Mateo, CA in 1999. In 2002, Eric Goldreyer acquired the company back from Worldres, Inc., and in 2004 moved its location from Denver, Colorado to Austin, Texas.

BedandBreakfast.com is a division of ELG Hospitality, Inc. ELG Hospitality, Inc., also owns and operates Inns.com, an Internet-based directory that features independent hotels, and RezOvation, a provider of a property management system to bed and breakfasts, hotels, and inns.

Customer feedback

From 1999 through 2006, BedandBreakfast.com was awared a Forbes "Best of the Web" travel category award. In 2006, Real Simple magazine named BedandBreakfast.com's gift certificates as one of the Top 50 Gifts under $50. [http://www.innstar.com/na/5star.html Innstar B&B Guidebook Review] named BedandBreakfast.com the top-rated internet bed and breakfast inns directory.

Of note, estimates vary on the number of bed and breakfasts and inns in the world. In the United States alone, some put the number over 20,000 properties. Other sites that include information on bed and breakfasts include [http://www.paii.org The Professional Association of Innkeepers International] . BedandBreakfast.com also features a page with links to [http://www.bedandbreakfast.com/innkeepers/BnBAssociations.aspx Hundreds of Not-for-profit State and Local B&B Associations] around the world.

Personnel

BedandBreakfast.com's main executives include [http://www.bedandbreakfast.com/about/eric.aspx Eric Goldreyer] , [http://www.bedandbreakfast.com/about/sandy.aspx Sandra Soule] , [http://www.bedandbreakfast.com/about/John-Banczak.aspx John Banczak] , and [http://www.bedandbreakfast.com/about/Denis-Kashkin.aspx Denis Kashkin] . Their main office is located in Austin, Texas, and have sales offices in Denver, Colorado, Chicago, Illinois, and Riverside, Connecticut.

ee also

* Travel technology
* bed and breakfast
* inns

External links

* [http://www.bedandbreakfast.com BedandBreakfast.com]
* [http://www.rezovation.com RezOvation, Inc.]

References

* [http://www.frommers.com/destinations/usa/0248027613.html Frommer's Tips on Accommodations]
* [http://www.realsimple.com/realsimple/gallery/0,21863,1553789-5,00.html Real Simple Magazine - Gifts under $50]
* [http://www.travelandleisure.com/articles/family-values-september-07/ Travel and Leisure Magazine]
* [http://www.fodors.com/news/story_2857.html Fodor's Gift Ideas]
* [http://www.cnn.com/2007/TRAVEL/traveltips/10/29/holiday.trips/ CNN Travel Tips]