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How to Attract International Guests to Your Bed and Breakfast

Attracting international guests to your bed and breakfast is my sweet spot, because at my B&B in France, I focused only on international guests, and didn’t try to attract any French people whatsoever. Not because I don’t like French people, in the same way as I didn’t take children, not because I don’t like children either, but because I had …

How to Use Online Travel Agents for Your Benefit

Hi I’m Yvonne Halling of www.bedandbreakfastcoach.com and in today’s video, I’m going to talk about using online travel agents for your benefit, not theirs, so if you’re depending largely on them to bring you guests, then my 3 top tips in this video will help you to reduce the commissions you may be paying to online travel agents, and take back …

How Bed and Breakfasts, Guest Houses, Inns and Small Hotels Increase Their Turnover by 38%

Two things happened last week, that I think you’ll be interested in. First, I got an email from a client I’ve been working with, detailing her results in 2017 Turnover up by 38.8% Occupancy rate up by 6.5% (which means that there weren’t a whole lot more guests, they just spent more) Bookings via the OTAs down from 45,2% to …

How to encourage guests to stay longer than 1 night

How to encourage guests to stay longer than 1 night One nighters are a lot of work for sure, and often there’s not enough time to get to know one another, so that guests feel comfortable returning again and again, which is what we all want, I’m sure. You have a lot of knowledge about your local area, what’s going …

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