cassis Posted July 5, 2008 Share Posted July 5, 2008 At the moment there are 17 B&B's and 144 gites registered on www.france-rental.com , the Archant advertising site for B&B and gite owners. The price of advertising is £60 + VAT for 1 year (Off Peak Offer - Usual Price £85).I wonder, is this enormous disparity in numbers of B&B's and gites because:The relative proportion of owners using Complete France is massively skewed towards gite owners (though the number of threads/posts in the Gite vs. B&B forums sections is not so skewed)Individual gite owners tend to advertise on more paying sites than do individual B&B owners (I suspect this is true though I have no proof)The price of advertising on france-rental.com is okay for some gite owners but too high for most B&B owners (many B&B bookings but perhaps only one or two gite bookings required to justify the same amount of advertising expenditure)Other reasons?[8-)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abbo2 Posted July 6, 2008 Share Posted July 6, 2008 I think you are right with no. 3, a few odd nights booked from a paying advertisment is not like having a week booked in a gite. The site also does not come up well when I search for bbs in our area,Advertising bbs is a whole different ball game wouldn't you say ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gilberto Posted August 29, 2008 Share Posted August 29, 2008 Just looked at the site and it has FREE advertising for new advertisers for rest of 2008! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owens88 Posted August 30, 2008 Share Posted August 30, 2008 Re the free advertising It asks you to register an interest and they'll get back to you. I did they haven't yet. John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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