Membership
Welcome Innkeepers
The goal of Innkeepers Online is to offer innkeepers improved visibility and thereby improved market presence. We offer members an online presence that reaches out to the public at large to foster and promote quality accommodations in the Atlantic Provinces.
Membership is open to all fixed roof accommodation operators. We welcome innkeepers from all provinces or territories.
Innkeepers serves as a unified voice regarding the interests of fixed-roof accommodations in the Atlantic Provinces.
We represent members through negotiations and discussions with government, industry, and non-industry organizations, whose activities pertain to tourist accommodations.
Innkeepers was formed in 1939, and regrouped in 2005 after requests from Innkeepers who wanted better represenation, better marketing, and finacial advantages.
As a result the Guild offers select rates from the businesseshown below.
More about Select Rates.
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An Invitation
from The Innkeepers Guild |
An invitation to join a network of Innkeepers,
An opportunity to improve your business, and
give travelers an experience to remember.
The “Atlantic” is a tourism destination for travelers from
all over the globe! Let’s get out there and tell people!
Your property is unique!
It has that “quality” touch.
It’s in a great location.
Time to take advantage of the Innkeeper “brand”.
Innkeepers Guild is an Association of Tourism Business Owners and Managers that exists to act in the best interests of it’s members, and
the industry - to speak on behalf of the members, and to work to improve
the relationships between travelers, owners, employees, government and related businesses and associations.
Innkeepers Membership Advantages:
- We market your property in a “Travel Guide”
- We market your location in a “Travel Planner”
- On the Innkeepers web site you receive DOUBLE the listings
- You belong to a network in the four Atlantic provinces
- We have members from every category of tourism accommodations
- We partner with other provincial associations to boost referrals
- We have associates who are suppliers, producers, and good travelers
- You have a Director of the Board in each Atlantic province
- We provide you with tourism news and economic “numbers”,
and we’ll even help you with your property or business problems.
- After all, that’s what friends are for!
Our web site highlights ONLY those locations where we have members,
or locations that members consider to be a key destination along their route.
We will also highlight any local non-profit organization a member wishes to recommend, such as a museum, a volunteer fire department or other service cub event.
Your new Innkeepers web listing provides:
- a FREE full-page listing, with 2 photos on the Innkeepers
Guild “Travel Guide” - (a value of over $100.00 elsewhere).
- a second link to that FREE liating on the “Travel Planner”
- up to THREE links to local attractions in your community
- a FREE email link to your business web site
- a Free Live Google map link for your property and community
- An email link to your business website
Membership Benefits:
- Preferred Credit Card Processing Fees
- Group discount on Propane, and Insurance
- Preferred Telephone Rates
- Supplier Search Service
- Bi-monthly electronic newsletter “Keeping INN Touch”
- “Media Watch” bulletins alert you to significant tourism events
- “Marketing My INN” Newsletters, on Marketing, Financial and
- General Business information
- Innkeepers Guild Web Site “Membership Forum”
- Help Desk where you can ask questions
(some benefits are exclusive, and require membership to be verified)
Association Business and Policy Action:
- Recommended the NS government retain and enforce licensing
- Recommended the NS government not have “mandatory” ratings
- Policy and Position
- Ferry systems - Innkeepers believes the ferry routes in the Atlantic
are really an “Atlantic Marine Highway”. The four provinces should
have a master business model for ferry routes, and rail routes to
improve their links with highways and airports.
- Room tax, marketing levy tax - Innkeepers supports the concept of
a room tax or levy but only when the management of the funds
collected are under the administration of an elected board and
where the monies collected are shared with local as well as regional
tourism organizations. All businesses that collect the tax are to be considered “voting members” of the administration organization.
Watch your Atlantic Coast property become a preferred tourist destination in Atlantic Canada.
We are working to increase the voice “at the table”,
to prove the economic value of our industry.