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The Bainbridge Island Lodging Association began informally in 1999 and in 2002 was incorporated as a nonprofit trade association to provide cooperative marketing and promotion, support services, and networking opportunities for innkeepers on Bainbridge Island.

For the past ten years our members have promoted the island's lodging industry, joined with other tourism-related business and organizations to promote local tourism, shared information and experiences, made efforts to increase awareness of local lodging options within our community.

Membership is open to all bed and breakfasts, guest houses, inns, vacation rentals and hotels on Bainbridge Island.

If you are new to the lodging business or a longtime innkeeper, you will find that there are many benefits to belonging to BILA:

• Cooperative marketing to promote Bainbridge Island as a visitor destination
• Professionally-designed web site with paid search engine placement
• Ability to update individual member web listing and photos
• Cooperative advertising/promotion in various media – radio, magazines
• Brochure/rack card – on ferries and other off-island locations, in local businesses
• Regular business meetings
• Social network for innkeepers
• Informational meetings about lodging industry concerns – marketing, insurance, etc.
• Mentor program for new innkeepers
• Lending library
• Member property visits to assist in referrals
• Partnership in the Bainbridge Island Tourism Alliance - all-island marketing strategies
• Membership in the Bainbridge Island Chamber of Commerce, with all of its benefits

Please contact us at bainbridgelodgingassociation@gmail.com for more information.