Open Your Own Bed and Breakfast - Softcover

Notarius, Barbara; Brewer, Gail Sforza

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0471130443 ISBN 13: 9780471130444

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 1996

Synopsis

Have you ever dreamed of running your own bed and breakfast?

Barbara Notarius, one of America′s most widely recognized B&B experts, provides all the information you need to turn your dream into a reality in this thorough and practical guide. Whether you already run a B&B or are in the planning stage, you′ll find this handy guide an invaluable resource on:

• Your responsibilities—and those of your guests
• Purchasing an existing inn vs. converting your home
• Evaluating your home′s assets and liabilities
• What to charge your guests
• Seminars and internships
• Conforming to the ADA
• Increasing profitability
• Advertising and promotion
• Employee management
• New AAA guidelines
• Legal, tax, and insurance issues, including recent changes in the tax code
• Preventing B&B burnout

Plus, this Third Edition includes a section on new marketing strategies for your B&B, and a new appendix of industry suppliers. Informative interviews with successful hosts, hospitality checklists, and a directory of reservation services, state associations, seminars, and apprenticeships make this the most complete guidebook available.

About this title

About the Author

BARBARA NOTARIUS is a lecturer and consultant on operating a B&B. She is founder and publicity director of Bed and Breakfast Reservations Worldwide, the only nonprofit trade association in the B&B industry. In addition, she runs her own B&B, the Alexander Hamilton House, in Croton–on–Hudson, New York.

GAIL SFORZA BREWER is a professional writer and lecturer.

Barbara Notarius, one of America′s most widely recognized B&B experts, provides all the information you need to turn your dream into a reality in this thorough and practical guide. Whether you already run a B&B or are in the planning stage, you′ll find this handy guide an invaluable resource on:

• Your responsibilities—and those of your guests
• Purchasing an existing inn vs. converting your home
• Evaluating your home′s assets and liabilities
• What to charge your guests
• Seminars and internships
• Conforming to the ADA
• Increasing profitability
• Advertising and promotion
• Employee management
• New AAA guidelines
• Legal, tax, and insurance issues, including recent changes in the tax code
• Preventing B&B burnout

Plus, this Third Edition includes a section on new marketing strategies for your B&B, and a new appendix of industry suppliers. Informative interviews with successful hosts, hospitality checklists, and a directory of reservation services, state associations, seminars, and apprenticeships make this the most complete guidebook available.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0471130443
• ISBN 13: 9780471130444
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 336