Some guests visit your bed and breakfast because of the terrific shopping available in your area. Whether it is special boutiques, retail outlets, flea markets, or antique dealers, their mission is to find some great buys. Some come as collectors to attend conventions for valuable items such as stamps, dolls, and cars. Whatever their reason, your website and blog can promote these opportunities and events.
Guests who want to stay busy with physical activities could be considered adventurers. An adventurer is someone who enjoys and seeks exciting, and sometimes daring, experiences. This could be climbing mountains, golfing, hiking, horseback riding, skiing, or any other outdoor activity or sport.
If your bed and breakfast is located near anything that offers fun activities such as the ones mentioned, consider putting together a special promotion or package by contacting these businesses to get guests:
By having a blog and a small part of your website marketing this, you will attract potential B&B guests who have adventurous spirits. Be sure to think about what opportunities are available in your local and surrounding areas. Have fun with it and you can even create a guidebook of possible adventures for your guests!
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We all have 24 hours in our day. Since none of us can buy time, we must maximize (make the greatest and full use of) this limited resource. This means we must have a strategy (a plan for obtaining a specific goal or result).
So what are goals? Goals are the results toward which our efforts are directed. The best goals are SMART:
As an innkeeper of a bed and breakfast, you may want to categorize your goals based on the different areas in your job. I have included an example of a smart goal for each category.
You may think of other categories or come up with different goals. The point is to make the best use of your time. This will allow you, the busy innkeeper, to get everything done and still have a little down time to yourself.
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A gracious host is very welcoming and immediately sets you at ease when you arrive. Hospitality is the relationship between the guest and the host, or the act or practice of being hospitable. This includes the reception and entertainment of guests, visitors, or strangers. It is important, as bed and breakfast owners and innkeepers, that guests feel at home in your home.
Hospitality is associated with etiquette and entertainment. It involves showing respect for one’s guests, providing for their needs, and treating them as equals. The word hospitality derives from the Latin hospes, meaning “host”, “guest”, or “stranger”.
Hospitable Things To Say
As an innkeeper, you will need to know the fine art of how much to interact with your guests. Be available to answer their questions, but also be sensitive to their need for privacy. Take your cue from the guests themselves since each person is different. This way you tailor your hospitality to match the needs and wants of your guests. That is being very hospitable!
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Bed and Breakfasts traditionally name each bedroom available to guests. This allows B&B owners, as well as their guests, to be able to distinguish between the rooms. The B&B bedroom names can be based on any number of reasons. Here are 10 ways B&B bedrooms names come about:
As bed and breakfast owners, you can have fun with what you name your rooms. Be creative and come up with names of rooms that people would like to say they stayed in. Sometimes B&B owners have signs by the doors to let guests know they have come to the right room.
Naming the rooms in your house gives your bed and breakfast character and distinguishes it from other B&B’s. This also allows your guests to recommend the particular room they stayed in by name to other people.
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