Welcome to the Drupal Bed and Breakfast Distribution group.
Bed and Breakfasts are realizing that their website is an important asset that can build their business. To be competitive having a brochure site doesn't cut it anymore. B&B owners want to add photo albums, blog posts about local events and update their own information.
This group will provide web developers of B&B sites with the best collective advice on how to quickly setup the perfect Drupal site for a Bed & Breakfast.
Over time this group will look at the makeup of a Drupal distribution for Bed & Breakfasts, similar to what The DrupalEd group is doing.
Booking Calendar
While a distribution is a great thing to aim for, it isn't happening today. In the mean time I feel that a good set of documentation describing how common tasks a BnB, or holiday home, website might want to achieve.
One of the biggest of these for a holiday home is a Booking Calendar so that people can see at a glance if the house is booked at any given date as well as the rate for that time.
SEO is THE main need of B&B owner
Hello there,
I run a simple french B&B directory (still under Wordpress but I am porting it to Drupal) and I can tell you that the main concern of all the B&B owners is "how I can optimize my site so that visitors can find me".
Therefore I suggest that in a future B&B distribution we provide a simple SEO tools to the owners + statistics. Even if it won't make any miracle, this would be of real added value to them.
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Calendaring and availability
I'm working on a couple of sites at the moment that are in this sort of area, and one of the key parts of them is going to be the availability calendar, so site visitors can see at a glance if there are rooms available or not. I've looked at the availability module and also the openresort module and while they are both going in the right direction, neither quite gets all the way there.
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