Registering your hotel with the Accommodation Search Engine (ASE) FAQs

Who can register?

Any individual hotel, motel, guest house, B&B or vacation rental can register with ASE.

What is the charge?

Registering with ASE is free, there are no charges and no obligations.

Can I register more than one property?

Yes, but each property must be registered separately and if it is linked to a web page it must be a unique webpage dedicated specifically to that hotel, B&B or holiday rental.

I have a small site which lists a lot of places in the same town, can I register the home page?

No, sorry - we list individual properties not directories you must register each property individually. If you want to put all your properties in we will send you a spreadsheet to fill in with all the details, and then we will add them all here.

Your site seems more suited to hotels and B&Bs than to vacation rentals.

Yes, that is correct. We allow vacation rentals to register, but in 1995 when we launched we started with hotels and B&Bs and that is still the focus of the site.

The form is very long, must I fill it all in?

No, but the more information you give us the more people will know about your property and that should mean more business. The only mandatory parts of the registration are the name, address, property type and the description.

I don't have a website yet, can I still register?

Yes, the information you put on our site can be your web-page.

My website isn't finished yet, can I register now ready for when it is finished?

Yes, but don't put in the URL until you have launched your site - until then our page will appear and people can contact you direct. When your own website is launched you can log-in and update your entry by adding the URL of your own website.

What system of Latitude and Longitude do you use?

We use the decimal system, and most hotels we geocode to 4 decimal points. (for example Latitude 51.7935 Longitude -0.6611).

Is the minus sign in latitude important?

If there is a "-" (minus) sign in front of the numbers it is very important because it indicates a location in the southern hemisphere in a Latitude and the western hemisphere in the Longitude. Thus a hotel in Argentina which is in the southern hemisphere and in the western hemisphere would have a - (minus) in front of both Latitude and Longitude whereas a hotel in Denmark which is in the northern and eastern hemispheres would not have a minus sign for either.

How do I find my hotel's Latitude and Longitude?

We suggest you use MultiMap to find the latitude and longitude of your hotel. (www.multimap.com). In many countries you will be able to find a map of the area where your hotel is located by putting the name of the town or village, or just the postal code, into the search box, finding your country from the drop down list and clicking "find". If your country isn't listed try "Rest of World" and the city name. You can then pinpoint the exact location of your hotel on the map and by right clicking on your mouse when the curser is on the location of the hotel and selecting "Move Map to Here" you will relocate the map to centre on the location of the hotel.

If you then look under the map on the right hand side you will see. amongst other information, Lat: and Lon: MultiMap gives both types of geo-coding, you will need the decimal version which is shown in (brackets). Put those figures in the relevant boxes on the registration form, being very careful to include the - (minus) if there is one.

What if I cannot find the town where the hotel is located on MultiMap?

Leave that part of the form blank and we will locate the hotel. It will take a few days, but it is better for us to do it than you get it wrong and your hotel is lost because it is in the wrong place.

My hotel is in the middle of no-where, shouldn't I locate it in the nearest town so more people find it?

No, No, No! For a start as everything is geocoded if you put it in the town that is where users will expect to find you, and will be very upset if they arrive and find you are ten miles out in the country. Secondly we can vary the area that is brought into the search results, and so if you don't show up on the search we will widen the search to bring you into the results for the closest town - so you will still show up, but in the right location. Finally if you are so far away from town that you don't show at all we will open up a search point just for you, and that will then show as being a nearby place when anyone searches on any town in the general vicinity, which could, in some countries, be up to 100 miles away.