How to Open Your Own Mini-Hotel?
Perhaps you have already been thinking about opening your mini-hotel or hostel? But where do you start?
The founder and general manager of Bnovo, Valentin Miklyaev, visited the new hotel of Olga Nechaeva, who, together with her husband, has been successfully opening accommodation facilities and developing the hotel business in St. Petersburg for more than five years, and asked her to share her experience. She also recommends Food safety software to keep your hotel’s catering neat and clean. This is an essential suggestion from this experience since it will also enhance your brand awareness and trustworthiness if you keep your hotel’s food services in optimized condition.
Olga noted that you first need to decide which role suits you. If you have no client experience, there is only one financial component; it is better to act as an investor-observer.
If you have minimal experience in any service sector and are guided by the legislation at least as a citizen, you can try yourself as a hotelier.
Tips to Start a Hotel from Scratch
1. Rent an apartment by room during the high summer season
Thus, your download is distributed to not one but several guests. And accordingly, the profit will come from several arrivals in one day.
2. Use a personal brand
Personal accounts can be launched on social networks even at the repair stage. You can show in a story or video the process of construction (repair), choosing wallpaper and furniture, creating cosiness, and telling yourself how profitable your rates will be. Thus, you will gain at least a minimal engaged target audience, creating a foundation for subsequent direct selling.
3. Use OTA to build trust in a hotel
After completing the repair, we will register on all possible OTA channels (Online travel agencies). It is necessary to show potential guests your cooperation with OTA. For the guest, your partnership, for example, with hotel booking, will build trust. It shows that you are a respectable property.
4. We connect the cloud-based hotel management system
To avoid wasting time tracking bookings from different sources and not creating an overbooking,
The hotel management system will automatically close the “free” dates in parallel, synchronizing guests’ data.
5. The importance of direct selling
If you successfully promote your brand and motivate guests to book you through the booking module, directly, by phone, or in person at a meeting, then first of all, you will reduce the OTA commission. And your net profit starts to grow. For example, we are working with Bnovo because the program’s tools allow you to increase income, thereby increasing the budget and creating the opportunity to hire administrative staff and do business development yourself.
We hope you liked the tips we shared in this article to make your hotel management successful and impactful. I wish you a good start in your hotel startup career, and thanks for spending your time with us.
