Open Your Own Bed & Breakfast

Barbara Notarius, Gail Sforza Brewer

John Wiley & Sons, Sep 20, 2001 - Business & Economics - 336 pages

Experience the joy-and profits-that come from managing your own bed and breakfast!

Whether you already know the magic that comes with owning a B&B or you are at the planning stage, the fourth edition of Open Your Own Bed & Breakfast-now updated with everything you need to know about online marketing-guides you through this special world. Barbara Notarius, one of America's most widely recognized and respected B&B experts, shows you how to make your dream a reality. Some of the essential information provided in this book includes:
* Your responsibilities-and those of your guests
* Financial considerations
* Advertising, the Internet, and working with a reservation service
* Evaluating your home's assets and liabilities
* Conforming to the ADA
* Legal, tax, and insurance issues, including recent changes in the tax code
* Interviews with successful hosts
* Lists of B&B associations, guidebooks, and B&B reservation services


This new edition is an informative update of every aspect you need to know in order to run your B&B smoothly and successfully. Combining a meticulous business approach with a sincere appreciation for the pleasure that comes with running a B&B, Open Your Own Bed & Breakfast is an invaluable resource.

Contents

• America Is Waking Up to Bed and Breakfast: 1
• Bed and Breakfast Defined Basic Principles: 9
• Is Bed and Breakfast for You?: 25
• Evaluating Your Homes Assets and Liabilities: 43
• Financial Considerations: 60
• Starting Up: 81
• Public Relations and Advertising: 116
• The Internet: 156
• Working with a Reservation Service: 178
• Operating Smoothly For Hosts Who Market Themselves: 199
• Increasing Profitability: 225
• Specialty Bed and Breakfasts: 238
• Construction: 242
• Best Breakfast: 247
• Interviews with Successful Hosts: 271
• Bed and Breakfasts Reservation Services: 283
• Publications: 289
• State Bed and Breakfast Associations: 293
• Sources: 299
• Online Directories: 303
• Reservation Software: 315
• Index: 317

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.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Open Your Own Bed & Breakfast
• Authors: Barbara Notarius, Gail Sforza Brewer
• Edition: 4, illustrated
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2001
• ISBN: 0471189324, 9780471189329
• Length: 336 pages
• Subjects: Business & Economics / Industries / Hospitality, Travel & Tourism