Open Your Own Bed and Breakfast

Notarius, Barbara,Brewer, Gail Sforza

ISBN 10: 0471130443 / ISBN 13: 9780471130444

Published by Wiley, 1996

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Open Your Own Bed and Breakfast
• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0471130443
• ISBN 13: 9780471130444
• Binding: paperback
• Edition: 3rd Edition
• Condition: Good

About this title

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 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.