This article was published Arrington’s Bed and Breakfast Journal on February 15, 2005.
How do you fill those rooms during the slow season or midweek lull? Create an irresistible theme that your guests just can’t pass up. Utilizing what your community and area has to offer, creating theme packages becomes a snap.
Thou shalt not cover thy place with tasteless ornaments so thy guests cannot put anything down on a surface.
Thou shalt not create needless rules and restrictions for thy guests.
Some innkeepers in Fayetteville, Arkansas see their B&B’s as a pastime although some having the aim that one day their B&B will produce a viable income. Bill and Sharon Stiles run an antique store as well as the Stay Inn Style B&B with the hope that one day the inn will support itself. Tom and Shirley Butt operate Deepwood House but purchased the house because of who the architect was and not the B&B itself. Despite different reasons for having the B&B’s the innkeepers see the need for their lodging within the hospiatlity industry, creating an intimacy not available at larger hotel chains. This is confirmed by Fayetteville Convention and Visitors Bureau who say more visitors are requesting a B&B rather than a hotel.
