Building a great host profile

When you submit a host listing to cosmofil, we do an editorial review of it. We can also translate your listing into English for a cost of £60 (€75) per 500 words. Once reviewed the listing will either be approved for inclusion, or we'll get in touch with you to let you know what additional information we require before approving for inclusion. Currently, when applying to be a host you can only submit text information. Once we have approved your text copy we'll ask you to email us your pictures, which you'll send us ideally in the right format - but if not, we'll do our best to work with whatever you send.

Most of the form is quite straight forward - but we've given some guidelines below. The best guidelines though are the other hosts who are on the site already, so take a look and see what they have done.

Please try to be concise. “Short and sharp” has a stronger impact than long sentences.

Do not forget: this is your first chance to attract future customers through cosmofil. Once they have made a first contact with you, reply as quickly as possible and turn on the charm!

• Your name - Enter the name of you, your partner or your family. It can be as formal or as informal as you like.
• Accommodation Name - Enter the name of the accommodation you rent.
• Address Line 1
• Address Line 2
• Address Line 3
• Postal Code
• Country
• Region- ie, Tuscany, South Downs, Loire. We use region to categorise hosts on the site, so we may change this.
• Telephone - Include country and area code please.
• Mobile - Include country and area code please.
• Fax - Include country and area code please.
• Information on rooms/rates - Please enter details on what types of rooms you rent and their prices
• Number of guests catered for - How many guests can you cater for. Include any specific details on children or pets etc.
• Web address - As part of the approval process we will ask for you to provide a link to cosmofil.com on your site.
• Email address
• Description of area your accommodation is located in - Make it personal, tell a little about the history of the place, how green (nature friendly) you and your place are.
• Publications you are listed in -Give name of tourist board or tour operator if any that advertises your accommodation
• Tell us something about you - what your hobbies or passions are etc
• What type of cosmofil experiences can you offer? -activities with you i.e. visit of farm, telling your guests about your wine or olive oil production etc, or walking tours, taking people to the market or sharing a hobby (sport, mushrooms, wild flowers, arts, local music...)
• Which languages can you support? - indicate which level you are prepared to give (see cosmofil experience and cosmofil language options)
• What activities are available? - What other activities are available in the area?
• Any other information - Anything that might be an added attraction (i.e, easy access to people with disabilities, pets welcome, family friendly etc)
• Blog Title - See below - If you have a blog, please give us a title for it - ie 'Blog from Brittany'
• Blog URL - If you'd like to include your blog, or any other relevant blog send us the URL. As part of the approval process we will ask for you to provide a link to cosmofil.com on your site.
• URL of Blog RSS feed - If you know the URL of the RSS feed of your blog, or would like to suggest a RSS feed that is relevant to your area please add it here.