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How to get full list of Irish hotels, BnBs and Guesthouses?

  • 08-08-2010 8:38pm
    #1
    gimpotronitus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 303 ✭✭


    Hi,

    I have an idea for a new business but I would need to get a full list of Irish Hotels, BnBs and Guesthouses and contact details (Name/email).

    Does anyone know how I would go about getting such a list?

    thanks a lot.


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  • #2
    unnameduser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,081 ✭✭✭unnameduser


    There are companies like kompass that sell that type of info - it does tend to be expensive.

    You could do some donkey work and hit the yellow pages etc.

    /hides before the "spam" debate starts


  • #3
    gimpotronitus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 303 ✭✭gimpotronitus


    Yeah, had thought about that but was the final option :)

    I wonder if someone has a screen scraper/automatic script downloader for the yellow pages??


  • #4
    Lostinspace
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 234 ✭✭Lostinspace


    "The fun starts here" :)


  • #5
    jmcc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,521 ✭✭✭jmcc


    gimpotronitus wrote: »
    Yeah, had thought about that but was the final option :)

    I wonder if someone has a screen scraper/automatic script downloader for the yellow pages??
    That could be problematic as most sites have Terms and Conditions of access. There was a court case a few years ago against someone who used such a scraper on a business site. The site owner won. From what I remember of Golden Pages, its information architecture is rather poor.

    Regards...jmcc


  • #6
    hotelaccounts
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21 ✭hotelaccounts


    There is a book called 'Be Our Guest' that Bord Failte publish every year, most hotels/guesthouses/bnb's thats are registered with Bord Failte advertise in this. Will take time to enter everything on excel but once its done you should have a fairly comprehensive list.

    Or to actually advertise- there are a couple of companies out there that do fax mailshots- they can send to target locations/industries and are quite reasonable. Of course who knows how successful a fax mailshot would be- but as a starting point to reach a target market its not so bad. I know a company that does I think 10,000 faxes for €350, which isnt bad.

    PM me if you want to know the company name- I am in no way related to them!!


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  • #7
    hinault
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,932 ✭✭✭hinault


    gimpotronitus wrote: »
    Hi,

    I have an idea for a new business but I would need to get a full list of Irish Hotels, BnBs and Guesthouses and contact details (Name/email).

    Does anyone know how I would go about getting such a list?

    thanks a lot.

    Bord Failte used to print a hotel/guesthouse/BB guide to all BF-approved establishments in Ireland, by county.

    I haven't seen a printed copy of these booklets in recent years but if you call BF they might be able to confirm whether or not they still publish same.


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