Bed and Breakfast Management Books
This catalog page has books about starting, running, and maintaining a bed-and-brakfast. Running a bed & breakfast or country inn is the kind of business that appeals to men and women seeking to escape the corporate treadmill or to build a rewarding retirement business. A house in the country that pays for itself is the goal, but that dream requires careful planning and hard work to achieve.
These informative books provides essential information that shows you how to make your dream a reality. Whether you already a seasoned Innkeeper, or just starting to run a Bed and Breakfast, or you are at the planning stage, these books were chosen to guide you with every aspect in order to run your bed and breakfast business smoothly and successfully. They cover good advice on start-up costs, preparing the house and bedrooms, baths for guests, safety features and house rules, and determining guest rates, effective advertising, and taking reservations. Also some cover advice on menus and recipes, what, when, where, and how to serve breakfast.
In addition, several books are for those Innkeepers that want to decorate with antiques and collectibles to give their guests the enjoyment of staying in their warm, cozy, and nicely designed bed and breakfast inns.
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Starting, Running, Management Books for Bed and Breakfasts Owners
- How to Start and Operate Your Own Bed-and-Breakfast
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- -Martha Watson Murphy, Amelia R. Seton (Illustrator) / Paperback 224 pages / Published April 1999
An excellent well written guide with down-to-earth advice from an award-winning bed & breakfast Owner. Here is an informative guide chock-full of essential information for all those who are interested in earning supplementary income by running part of their home as a bed-and-breakfast. The author presents a good about common misconceptions about the ease of running a bed-and-breakfast, emphasizing that it is indeed a job, a job with part-time aspects. Presents good advice on start-up costs, preparing the house, bedrooms, and baths for the guests. Covers safety features and house rules, rates, advertising, and reservations. The author suggests when, where, and how to serve breakfast and offers a week's worth of menus and recipes.
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- Open Your Own Bed and Breakfast
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- -Barbara Notarius, Gail Sforza Brewer / Paperback 336 pages, 4th Edition / Published April 2001
This informative book provides essential information that shows you how to make your dream a reality. Whether you already own, or run a Bed and Breakfast, or you are at the planning stage, this fourth edition will guide you with every aspect in order to run your bed and breakfast business smoothly and successfully. Combining a meticulous business approach with a sincere appreciation for the pleasure that comes with running this special kind of business.
Includes coverage on your responsibilities and those of your guests, financial considerations, effective advertising, using the Internet, working with a reservation service and evaluating your home's assets and liabilities. Also covers conforming to the ADA, Legal, tax, and insurance issues, including recent changes in the tax code. Includes interviews with successful hosts, lists of bed and breakfast associations, guidebooks, and bed and breakfast reservation services.
Open Your Own Bed & Breakfast is an invaluable resource.
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- Upstart Guide Owning and Managing a Bed and Breakfast
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- -Lisa A. Rogak / Paperback 224 pages / Published October 1994
This book provides basic information on how to select the best location for your business and setting up your business. Including information on zoning, permits, and licenses requirements.
Covers the reality of living with and caring for your guests in your home. Discusses when or whether to hire additional help. Additional information resources are included that would be of interest to anyone starting up and pursuing this attractive and rewarding business.
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- How to Start and Run Your Own Bed and Breakfast Inn
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- -Ripley Hotch, Carl A. Glassman / Paperback 192 pages / Published October 1992
As innkeepers, Hotch and Glassman (who conducts innkeeping workshops) know their business. They offer glimpses into other Inn owners views and advice gathered over the years. Covers the basics of concerns for the potential innkeeper, like acquiring the inn, handling finances, planning for legal and insurance needs, promoting the business, and taking care of guests. This is a good basic practical guide.
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- Inns and Outs of Collecting: How Bed and Breakfast Owners Use Collections to Decorate
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- -Sherry White / Paperback 112 pages / Published August 2002
This interesting book features a nationwide selection of inns that decorate well by using antiques and collectibles. Those guests who relish staying in the cozy, warm and design-rich bed and breakfast inns know that these inns add a welcomed dimension to their visit. This book is a rich collection of the special decoration themes of 41 such inns with 160 gorgeous color photographs. You will love the pictures of inns that are passionate havens for people who love collections of glass and pottery such as Watts and Yellow Ware, textiles including vintage clothing and quilts, the toys of our childhood including dolls and fuzzy bears, decorative and holiday items featuring special theme baskets in season. Plus, home furnishings such as rare books and furniture, housewares including teapots, crocks and coffee grinders. With this book you will find many ideas to start or enlarge your antiques and collectibles in your own bed and breakfast, or in your own apartment and home to life!
Includes 160 color photographs.
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- Complete Idiot's Guide to Running a Bed and Breakfast
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- -Park Davis, Susannah Craig / Paperback 336 pages / Published March 2001
This book presents the essential information for opening and running a successful inn. It gives you guidelines for choosing a profitable location. And discuses how to write up a business plan, what to include on you Web site, what "house rules" you need to set up to keep your guests and your investment safe. Describes a day in the life of the average inn owner, and gives pointers on how to use your own personal touch to make your inn unique.
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- Bed and Breakfast Quilts: With Rise and Shine Recipes
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- -Mimi Dietrich / Paperback 128 pages / Published March 2003
Use the ideas in the book to decorate your bed and breakfast Inn, or use these professional ideas in your own home! Best-selling author Mimi Dietrich shows you how with her latest collection of quilt patterns and delicious breakfast recipes to do just that.
Choose from 14 bed-size quilt patterns, plus pillowcases, decorative pillows, and dust ruffles.
All filled with warm country colors that will make any room feel cozy. Learn how to make and use the cheerful "Spring Daydreams" quilt, or stitch up "Welcome Home."
Try Mimi's favorite recipes, including a buttery potato casserole and oatmeal crème brûlée. Sample other irresistible recipes, from a make-it-tonight, bake-it-tomorrow French toast casserole to Mimi's signature Streusel-Topped Pumpkin Muffins.
Find dozens of decorating ideas in color photos that spotlight beautiful bed-and-breakfast locations.
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- Best Places to Stay in the Pacific Northwest: Bed & Breakfasts, Historic Inns and Other Recommended Getaways
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- -Marilyn McFarlane, M. J. Cody / Paperback 496 pages / Published June 2000
Need more ideas for your own bed and breakfast, or planning a special get-a-way, this comprehensive book covers 300 accommodations in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and British Columbia. Bed and breakfast are great for long weekends, romantic getaways, business trips, and family vacations. Best Places to Stay in the Pacific Northwest is the book to look to for accurate and discerning reviews of distinctive accommodations in all price ranges. The authors have personally visited hundreds of establishments in their research, thereby ensuring that this book is one that you'll rely on again and again in your travel planning. This completely revised edition covers Bed & Breakfasts, Coastal Inns and Cottages, Wilderness Retreats, Grand Old Lodges, Guest Ranches Romantic Hideaways, City Stops, and Wine Region Inns.
Includes itineraries, activity appendixes, and maps to help you find that perfect place to match your style, budget, and interests.
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