We examined 274 population centers, looking for job creation and other signs that businesses are thriving. Here's what we found.
The economies of most big cities are idling. The real entrepreneurial hotbeds are now on the periphery -- where low costs make it possible to thrive in a tough global economy.
The new economy didn't disappear. It changed addresses.
The dynamic, job-generating information-technology and service companies that characterized the boom of the 1990s are still around. But it's getting harder to find them in the usual high-tech clusters like Silicon Valley, Boston, and Austin. Instead, five years after the bubble burst and a year or so into an economic recovery, those same kinds of companies are thriving in places like Reno, Nev., Boise, Idaho, and Naples, Fla. -- cities that were once mere specks on the new-economy map.
Thanks to lower housing and labor costs, more favorable regulatory environments, and, in some cases, lower taxes, these smaller cities are proving ideal places for doing business -- especially in a globalized economy in which companies operate under relentless pressure to keep costs low and quality high. In many cases, it is precisely these low costs that allow U.S. companies to successfully compete in industries that often seem all but ready to concede to India and other countries. Rather than sending business overseas, many companies are instead opting to contract with lower-cost domestic suppliers -- a new wrinkle in the outsourcing trend known as home-shoring.
Take Boise. Nestled at the base of the Rocky Mountains, the city has long been known for its astonishing scenery and outdoor recreational opportunities. But in recent years, Boise has undergone a transformation. Since 2001, the number of information jobs in the area has jumped 5.9%. Professional business services jobs have grown 9.1%, and the financial services sector has grown more than 11.3%. By contrast, San Jose, in the heart of Silicon Valley, has experienced a 23% drop in information jobs, a 21.5% loss in business services jobs, and a 2.2% loss in financial services positions over the same period.
Boise's surge is being fueled by companies like Treetop Technologies, a software services firm that has added 83 jobs over the past two years and now has 110 employees and offices in nine states, Calgary, and Singapore. Clients such as Hewlett-Packard, Agilent, and the state of Idaho rely on Treetop to provide application support, development, and administration -- the very services that many fret are destined to leave the U.S. for India. Treetop's revenue hit $10 million in 2004.
Founder and CEO Jason Crawforth, a 35-year-old Boise native, says he couldn't have done it anywhere else. Housing prices in Boise can be as much as 75% lower than in the San Francisco Bay area, according to the National Association of Realtors. That makes it easier to attract talented employees while paying some 30% less than in Silicon Valley. A software-testing engineer earning $65,000 a year at Treetop, for example, would command a salary of at least $85,000 in the Bay area, according to Crawforth. "People here are competent, speak well, tend to be patient, and have a good attitude," Crawforth says. "I have almost no turnover and people love the opportunity to be here. That's what makes this such a great place to do home-shoring."
Entrepreneurs like Crawforth helped propel Boise to the No. 2 spot in Inc.'s annual ranking of the best places for doing business in America. And it's not just Boise. Nearly all of the areas ranking high on our list are making use of the same formula. They're using their lower business and housing costs to attract entrepreneurs and stimulate strong growth in IT, business services, and finance -- creating a new new economy in the shadow of the old one.
How did Inc. arrive at the 2005 rankings? We didn't try to quantify subjective criteria such as good weather and proximity to research universities. Our assumption is that job growth is the best measure of a region's economic vitality -- especially as it applies to entrepreneurs. So we looked for jobs. If, as in the classic Small Business Administration formulation, small businesses produce up to 80% of the new jobs in this country, a region showing strong job growth is bound to be a hotbed of entrepreneurial activity. What's more, strong job growth suggests that a region's economy is expanding. That means new demand and new opportunities.
Inc. measured current-year employment growth in 274 metropolitan statistical areas, as defined by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. (Most of the MSAs bear the name of a single city, but all MSAs include areas surrounding the namesake city.) We also looked at average annual job growth over the past three years and compared job growth in the first and second halves of a period comprising the past 10 years. Job-growth factors account for about two-thirds of each city's final score; the balance among industries accounts for the remainder. (For a more detailed explanation of our methodology, see "How the Rankings Were Calculated," page 104. The rankings themselves begin on page 107.)
Tuesday, 1 December 2009
Business Information Systems Department
Welcome to the Department of Business Information Systems and thank you for taking the time to explore the website.
The BIS department has nearly 600 students from all over the world studying worldwide in the subject areas including Business Information Systems, Forensics Computing, Information Security Management and Audit, Green Computing, Web Information Management, Data and Knowledge Engineering, Services Computing and Enterprise Management Technologies.
The department offers a range of programmes from foundation to undergraduate through to Masters and doctoral work. The department also has substantial operations and collaboration in China, Cyprus, Egypt, Dubai, Hong Kong, India, Sri Lanka, Vietnam and the Netherlands in research and business development.
We hope you find our site useful and look forward meeting you soon.
Department of Business Information Systems
Our vision
The skills that you will develop during your studies will be an asset towards your employability. Our programmes combine theoretical knowledge with practical experience and as well as developing intellectually, you will develop and enhance the critical, analytical and communication skills, that is focused on an approach of creative and independent thinking and the ability to communicate clearly and coherently at the appropriate level which employers require.
We pride ourselves for the highest standards of teaching, research and we are committed to making sure that you take an active part in monitoring quality and standards through regular feedbacks.
Our portfolio
The Department is responsible for number of programmes within the School of Engineering and Information Sciences. All of our programmes enjoy British Computer Society recognition.
Our research extends from Information Security and Digital Forensics, Ethics and ICT to Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour.
See below for a full list of our taught programmes.
Future developments
The current development plans for the Department include identifying and establishing further international links and consolidating existing ones, exploring additional research areas, designing new approaches to learning and teaching, and extending our Continuing Professional Development (CPD) activities and vocational courses.
Academic expertise
The Department has strengths in all of the generic areas of Business Computing, with particular focuses on Information Security and Computer Forensics, Business Information Systems, Green Computing, Service Science, Enterprise Management Technologies, Data and Knowledge engineering, Web information Management.
The BIS department has nearly 600 students from all over the world studying worldwide in the subject areas including Business Information Systems, Forensics Computing, Information Security Management and Audit, Green Computing, Web Information Management, Data and Knowledge Engineering, Services Computing and Enterprise Management Technologies.
The department offers a range of programmes from foundation to undergraduate through to Masters and doctoral work. The department also has substantial operations and collaboration in China, Cyprus, Egypt, Dubai, Hong Kong, India, Sri Lanka, Vietnam and the Netherlands in research and business development.
We hope you find our site useful and look forward meeting you soon.
Department of Business Information Systems
Our vision
The skills that you will develop during your studies will be an asset towards your employability. Our programmes combine theoretical knowledge with practical experience and as well as developing intellectually, you will develop and enhance the critical, analytical and communication skills, that is focused on an approach of creative and independent thinking and the ability to communicate clearly and coherently at the appropriate level which employers require.
We pride ourselves for the highest standards of teaching, research and we are committed to making sure that you take an active part in monitoring quality and standards through regular feedbacks.
Our portfolio
The Department is responsible for number of programmes within the School of Engineering and Information Sciences. All of our programmes enjoy British Computer Society recognition.
Our research extends from Information Security and Digital Forensics, Ethics and ICT to Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour.
See below for a full list of our taught programmes.
Future developments
The current development plans for the Department include identifying and establishing further international links and consolidating existing ones, exploring additional research areas, designing new approaches to learning and teaching, and extending our Continuing Professional Development (CPD) activities and vocational courses.
Academic expertise
The Department has strengths in all of the generic areas of Business Computing, with particular focuses on Information Security and Computer Forensics, Business Information Systems, Green Computing, Service Science, Enterprise Management Technologies, Data and Knowledge engineering, Web information Management.
Business start up advice from startups.co.uk
Startups.co.uk is your number-one online resource for starting a business. Whether you are a budding entrepreneur ready to start a business for the first time or you are an established entrepreneur looking to do it a second time, we have all the news and information you need to get your small business starting on the right foot. Small business owners and new businesses consistently rate startups.co.uk as the leading source of information for UK entrepreneurs. Our extensive how-to guides explore all the myriad issues you may face when bringing your killer idea from your head onto the market. Across our many pages you will find need-to-know information on how to raise financing for your business startup, drafting your business plan, where to find office space & serviced offices, dealing with tax, when to buy and sell, marketing, doing business online, wholesaling, insurance, technology, hiring and firing, health and safety and complying with legal issues. We also bring you the latest in business startup news, updating the site daily as stories break, as well as profiles of some of the country’s top business startups. The site also features a very popular forum where businesses, aspiring entrepreneurs, loyal readers and casual visitors share their ideas on how to start a business. Our belief is that when you are starting a business, taking the risk and putting your time and money into something new that will change your life one way or another, you should have someone by your side.
Startups.co.uk is supported by advertising from companies including BT, Microsoft, Direct Line and Hewlett Packard. We would like to thank them for their support. As well as offering products and services, many also offer excellent advice. For example visit BT Business Insight for small business advice,including articles, guides and information on starting a business and running a business.
Startups.co.uk receives over 140,000 site visits a month and is the voice online for aspiring and new entrepreneurs.
Startups.co.uk is supported by advertising from companies including BT, Microsoft, Direct Line and Hewlett Packard. We would like to thank them for their support. As well as offering products and services, many also offer excellent advice. For example visit BT Business Insight for small business advice,including articles, guides and information on starting a business and running a business.
Startups.co.uk receives over 140,000 site visits a month and is the voice online for aspiring and new entrepreneurs.
Business Incorporation
When beginning a business, you must decide what form of business entity to establish. Your form of business determines the amount of regulatory paperwork you have to file, your personal liability regarding investments into your business, and the taxes you have to pay. The most common business structures include:
Sole Proprietorship - A business owned and managed by one individual who is personally liable for all business debts and obligations.
Partnership - Two or more people share ownership of a single business.
Corporation - A legal entity owned by shareholders.
S Corporation - A special type of corporation created through a tax election. An eligible domestic corporation can avoid double taxation (once to the shareholders and again to the corporation) by electing to be treated as an S corporation.
Limited Liability Company (LLC) - A relatively new, hybrid-type of legal structure that provides the limited liability features of a corporation and the tax efficiencies and operational flexibility of a partnership
Non-Profit - An organization engaged in activities of public or private interest that are not motivated by making a profit. Some non-profits are exempt from paying federal taxes.
Cooperative - A business or organization owned by and operated for the benefit of those using its services. Cooperatives are not a legal structure.
Visit these resources to learn more about which business structure is right for you:
Guide to Choosing a Business Structure
The U.S. Small Business Administration provides this clear and concise guide covering the most popular business structures. Outlines the advantages and disadvantages of each type of business structure as well as tax requirements.
Tax Information - Business Structures
The Internal Revenue Services provides information on the tax implications of the most common business structures.
Registering Your Business
If you decided to create a corporation, a non-profit, a limited liability company or a partnership (limited, or limited liability), you will have to register your business and file certain documents with your state government. If your business is a sole proprietorship, you do not need to register your business with the state. However, many states require a sole proprietor to use their own name for the business name unless they formally file another name as a trade name, or a fictitious name.
Choose a state to find out about specific filing requirements in the state where your business will be formed.
Sole Proprietorship - A business owned and managed by one individual who is personally liable for all business debts and obligations.
Partnership - Two or more people share ownership of a single business.
Corporation - A legal entity owned by shareholders.
S Corporation - A special type of corporation created through a tax election. An eligible domestic corporation can avoid double taxation (once to the shareholders and again to the corporation) by electing to be treated as an S corporation.
Limited Liability Company (LLC) - A relatively new, hybrid-type of legal structure that provides the limited liability features of a corporation and the tax efficiencies and operational flexibility of a partnership
Non-Profit - An organization engaged in activities of public or private interest that are not motivated by making a profit. Some non-profits are exempt from paying federal taxes.
Cooperative - A business or organization owned by and operated for the benefit of those using its services. Cooperatives are not a legal structure.
Visit these resources to learn more about which business structure is right for you:
Guide to Choosing a Business Structure
The U.S. Small Business Administration provides this clear and concise guide covering the most popular business structures. Outlines the advantages and disadvantages of each type of business structure as well as tax requirements.
Tax Information - Business Structures
The Internal Revenue Services provides information on the tax implications of the most common business structures.
Registering Your Business
If you decided to create a corporation, a non-profit, a limited liability company or a partnership (limited, or limited liability), you will have to register your business and file certain documents with your state government. If your business is a sole proprietorship, you do not need to register your business with the state. However, many states require a sole proprietor to use their own name for the business name unless they formally file another name as a trade name, or a fictitious name.
Choose a state to find out about specific filing requirements in the state where your business will be formed.
How to Name a Business
Whether it's a clever moniker, a personal tribute, or simply picked out of hat, your business' name will frame its identity. The significance of choosing a name can sometimes be a tricky undertaking. You may find it helpful to keep alternatives in mind during your selection process. If you're having some trouble selecting a business name, here are some tips to consider.
Imagine how the potential name will
Look (on business cards, advertisements, with a logo)
Sound (ease of pronunciation)
Be remembered (connotations the name may incite)
Distinguish you from competitors (avoid trademark infringements)
You may want to avoid
Embarrassing spellings, abbreviations, profanities, potentially offensive undertones
Implied associations with organizations/people the business is not connected with
Once you've decided on the perfect business name, you'll want to ensure that it's secure and protected. Be aware laws may vary from state to state, so check with your state Secretary of State to comply with regional policies.
Availability of Proposed Names
Set aside some time to research your proposed names. Because a business can establish a trademark simply by operating under a given name, you must be diligent in checking both registered and unregistered trademarks. A quick scan on an Internet search engine can save you valuable time, energy, and money by ruling out existing businesses with similar names and/or services. The next step is to search various databases that pertain to your business structure.
Understanding Trademarks
Trademark law prevents businesses from operating under names that are likely to be mistaken for the name of an existing competitor. If you violate trademark law, you may be required to pay monetary reparations and change your business name. To avoid violating trademark law, do your research and select a name that is legally available.
Name Databases
To confirm name availability, have your county clerk's office check the list of fictitious/assumed names - often unregistered trademarks - operating in your region, or state, if applicable. In the event that your proposed name is already in use, you should discard it from your list.
Multiple databases should be consulted to provide the most thorough search effort. The Thomas Register (available online) provides entrepreneurs with a free, unregistered trademark database. Federally registered trademarks can be found on the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's database.
Corporations, Limited Liability Companies (LLC), or Limited Partnerships
For businesses organized in the manner of a corporation, LLC, or limited partnership, contact your state filing office for an additional name database search.
Considering Your Results
If you find a business operating under your proposed name, you may still be able to use it, provided your business and the existing business offer different goods/services or are located in different regions.
However, avoid naming your business after a prominent existing trademark or any trademarks that are indistinguishable to your proposed name that provide the same goods/services, as it may violate trademark law. Keep in mind that federally registered trademarks are protected across the United States.
Registrations
Once you've cleared your proposed business name, you must register it. There are also optional registrations available to business owners to ensure legal name protection.
Required Registrations
If your business name is not your own personal name, it's referred to as an assumed, or fictitious, name. Registrations of this kind may also be known as a DBA, or "Doing, Business As." Depending on where you live, this registration can be obtained from a state agency or a city or county clerk's office. Visit the Business Name Registration (Doing Business As) page for more information.
For corporations, LLCs, or limited partnerships, often business names are registered when the articles of incorporation/organization or statements of limited partnerships are returned to your state filing office. If operating under a fictitious/assumed/DBA name, fictitious name statements may be required by the state and county where the business is located.
Optional Registrations
Registering for a trademark is not required, but it often provides valuable protection of your business name. Just as you could not infringe on a trade name in your selection process, you would be offered the same protection against potential competitors.
If your business will operate in more than one state, you may want to apply for a federal trademark.
See your state Secretary of State office (for state) and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (for federal) trademark registration.
Imagine how the potential name will
Look (on business cards, advertisements, with a logo)
Sound (ease of pronunciation)
Be remembered (connotations the name may incite)
Distinguish you from competitors (avoid trademark infringements)
You may want to avoid
Embarrassing spellings, abbreviations, profanities, potentially offensive undertones
Implied associations with organizations/people the business is not connected with
Once you've decided on the perfect business name, you'll want to ensure that it's secure and protected. Be aware laws may vary from state to state, so check with your state Secretary of State to comply with regional policies.
Availability of Proposed Names
Set aside some time to research your proposed names. Because a business can establish a trademark simply by operating under a given name, you must be diligent in checking both registered and unregistered trademarks. A quick scan on an Internet search engine can save you valuable time, energy, and money by ruling out existing businesses with similar names and/or services. The next step is to search various databases that pertain to your business structure.
Understanding Trademarks
Trademark law prevents businesses from operating under names that are likely to be mistaken for the name of an existing competitor. If you violate trademark law, you may be required to pay monetary reparations and change your business name. To avoid violating trademark law, do your research and select a name that is legally available.
Name Databases
To confirm name availability, have your county clerk's office check the list of fictitious/assumed names - often unregistered trademarks - operating in your region, or state, if applicable. In the event that your proposed name is already in use, you should discard it from your list.
Multiple databases should be consulted to provide the most thorough search effort. The Thomas Register (available online) provides entrepreneurs with a free, unregistered trademark database. Federally registered trademarks can be found on the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's database.
Corporations, Limited Liability Companies (LLC), or Limited Partnerships
For businesses organized in the manner of a corporation, LLC, or limited partnership, contact your state filing office for an additional name database search.
Considering Your Results
If you find a business operating under your proposed name, you may still be able to use it, provided your business and the existing business offer different goods/services or are located in different regions.
However, avoid naming your business after a prominent existing trademark or any trademarks that are indistinguishable to your proposed name that provide the same goods/services, as it may violate trademark law. Keep in mind that federally registered trademarks are protected across the United States.
Registrations
Once you've cleared your proposed business name, you must register it. There are also optional registrations available to business owners to ensure legal name protection.
Required Registrations
If your business name is not your own personal name, it's referred to as an assumed, or fictitious, name. Registrations of this kind may also be known as a DBA, or "Doing, Business As." Depending on where you live, this registration can be obtained from a state agency or a city or county clerk's office. Visit the Business Name Registration (Doing Business As) page for more information.
For corporations, LLCs, or limited partnerships, often business names are registered when the articles of incorporation/organization or statements of limited partnerships are returned to your state filing office. If operating under a fictitious/assumed/DBA name, fictitious name statements may be required by the state and county where the business is located.
Optional Registrations
Registering for a trademark is not required, but it often provides valuable protection of your business name. Just as you could not infringe on a trade name in your selection process, you would be offered the same protection against potential competitors.
If your business will operate in more than one state, you may want to apply for a federal trademark.
See your state Secretary of State office (for state) and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (for federal) trademark registration.
What Your Small Business Can Learn From Vampires
Vampires have become a pop culture phenomena spanning TV, books, movies and even Vampires on Facebook. The spark for this current craze can be traced to the best selling vampire book Twilight by Stephanie Myers. The author redefined the genre with vampires who could love and created a cultural trend.
The vampire craze provides an interesting glimpse into what drives a hot trend for a valuable lesson to small business. Getting in early on any trend wave requires keeping in tune with pop culture. Best selling books are often the catalyst for movies and the precursor to a large trend. Looking at best selling book lists can provide a glimpse of what is popular in the public conscious. Other media such as magazines can tell you what is up and coming. Many leading visionaries often read all types of media from fashion news to nano technology to see the broader trends in society.
One of my favorite ways to test for trend development is Google Insights. This nifty tool will allow you to enter in search terms and see the trends over time whether consumer search volumes are increasing, decreasing or flat. Tracking trends can provide your business with the opportunity to see the road ahead and possibly capitalize on the trend.
The vampire craze provides an interesting glimpse into what drives a hot trend for a valuable lesson to small business. Getting in early on any trend wave requires keeping in tune with pop culture. Best selling books are often the catalyst for movies and the precursor to a large trend. Looking at best selling book lists can provide a glimpse of what is popular in the public conscious. Other media such as magazines can tell you what is up and coming. Many leading visionaries often read all types of media from fashion news to nano technology to see the broader trends in society.
One of my favorite ways to test for trend development is Google Insights. This nifty tool will allow you to enter in search terms and see the trends over time whether consumer search volumes are increasing, decreasing or flat. Tracking trends can provide your business with the opportunity to see the road ahead and possibly capitalize on the trend.
Five steps to help you add value
Virtualising your business through technology
Five steps to help you add value
As technology develops, new opportunities for smarter business will continue to emerge. New technology has the potential both to make things more efficient and open up opportunities for you to develop your competitive advantage.
It’s very important to keep up with new developments, and the Solution Guide ‘Keeping up with technology’ will help you here.
But in order to identify those opportunities you need a systematic way of thinking about them. The following five-step process will help you identify areas where technology can add value. It’s not necessarily sequential, and there can be overlap between each step, but it’s a useful approach. Here’s how it works:
1. Analyse your business processes
The first step is to understand your business processes. For example, if you run a painting business, then obviously painting is your core process - it’s what you’re in business to do. But like any business you have a number of other processes - for example, marketing (getting customers), invoicing (getting the money), administration (doing estimates and contracts), human resources (finding, selecting and paying staff) - and so on. These are essential, but they take time and attention away from doing the actual painting.
2. Organise the processes
Once you’ve identified all your processes, how can you make them as efficient as possible by putting better systems in place? The more efficient these non-core processes are, the more time you’ll have to spend on painting.
3. Digitise where possible
Can you digitise any of these processes to make them even more efficient? For example, if you write manual estimates and invoices for customers, can you use a laptop mobile printer to automate and simplify the process and print out these documents on the spot? (The quicker you invoice, the sooner you’re likely to get paid.)
How do you attract new customers? Perhaps a website - in effect a 24-hour marketing tool - would help you. How do you get your supplies? Instead of having to take time away from work to go and get them, why not order them online and have them delivered?
4. Mobilise the information
Once your key business information is digitised, it becomes possible to access it from anywhere. For example, you can access your email via your mobile phone or laptop - which means that if you’re expecting an important email you’re not tied to your office while you wait for it to arrive.
5. ‘Virtualise’ where possible
Can you replace non-core physical processes with virtual ones? A simple example is emailing invoices or estimates rather than writing or printing them and mailing them out. Can you add value to your customers by using technology to make it easier for them? For example, the Internet has become a major medium for selling real estate, because it allows buyers to take virtual tours without even having to leave their own house. In fact many overseas buyers in particular now purchase houses without having ever set foot in them. Similarly, many hotels, resorts, even bed and breakfast owners now offer virtual tours of their accommodation on the Internet. For prospective guests, this takes away the anxiety they may have about what it would be like to stay there.
Five steps to help you add value
As technology develops, new opportunities for smarter business will continue to emerge. New technology has the potential both to make things more efficient and open up opportunities for you to develop your competitive advantage.
It’s very important to keep up with new developments, and the Solution Guide ‘Keeping up with technology’ will help you here.
But in order to identify those opportunities you need a systematic way of thinking about them. The following five-step process will help you identify areas where technology can add value. It’s not necessarily sequential, and there can be overlap between each step, but it’s a useful approach. Here’s how it works:
1. Analyse your business processes
The first step is to understand your business processes. For example, if you run a painting business, then obviously painting is your core process - it’s what you’re in business to do. But like any business you have a number of other processes - for example, marketing (getting customers), invoicing (getting the money), administration (doing estimates and contracts), human resources (finding, selecting and paying staff) - and so on. These are essential, but they take time and attention away from doing the actual painting.
2. Organise the processes
Once you’ve identified all your processes, how can you make them as efficient as possible by putting better systems in place? The more efficient these non-core processes are, the more time you’ll have to spend on painting.
3. Digitise where possible
Can you digitise any of these processes to make them even more efficient? For example, if you write manual estimates and invoices for customers, can you use a laptop mobile printer to automate and simplify the process and print out these documents on the spot? (The quicker you invoice, the sooner you’re likely to get paid.)
How do you attract new customers? Perhaps a website - in effect a 24-hour marketing tool - would help you. How do you get your supplies? Instead of having to take time away from work to go and get them, why not order them online and have them delivered?
4. Mobilise the information
Once your key business information is digitised, it becomes possible to access it from anywhere. For example, you can access your email via your mobile phone or laptop - which means that if you’re expecting an important email you’re not tied to your office while you wait for it to arrive.
5. ‘Virtualise’ where possible
Can you replace non-core physical processes with virtual ones? A simple example is emailing invoices or estimates rather than writing or printing them and mailing them out. Can you add value to your customers by using technology to make it easier for them? For example, the Internet has become a major medium for selling real estate, because it allows buyers to take virtual tours without even having to leave their own house. In fact many overseas buyers in particular now purchase houses without having ever set foot in them. Similarly, many hotels, resorts, even bed and breakfast owners now offer virtual tours of their accommodation on the Internet. For prospective guests, this takes away the anxiety they may have about what it would be like to stay there.
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