Recommended by the National Council of Hotel Associations, this guide offers guidance and advice on how to set up and manage a hotel, guest house or B&B. The author highlights how to enter the business and shows how to decide what to look for, raise finances, get professional advice, and more.

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So You Want to Buy a Small Hotel! is written with humor and tells it like it is, warts and all, the good things and the nightmares about running a hotelthe dream (with the nightmares!) lived for 11 years at the Rosebank Hotel in the Scottish Borders. Its a how-to book with a difference, anecdotal, full of practical, step-by-step advice, with warnings about pitfallsa buyers hotel guide for dummies! Reading this book will give you practical insights into what it is really like to own a small hotel and enable you to decide whether running a small hotel is for you.

Recommended by The National Council of Hotel Associations, this revised edition of the text provides practical guidance on all aspects of buying and running a small hotel. It features examples, case studies, checklists, and specimen documents.

1. Deciding whether hotel-keeping is for you; 2. Choosing the right hotel for you; 3. Making the search; 4. Raising capital; 5. Making your purchase; 6. Assessing equipment and staffing; 7. Book-keeping and accounts; 8. Tariffs, costs and advertising; 9. Up and running