By Feng Yuhui, President of the Central China Urban Research Institute
The other problem is cost. The cost to the traveler. If you're on a tour, you're not going to choose a bed and breakfast. If you are traveling by car, you won't choose a B&B. I don't think a family would either. It's just a few friends, and they're young, curious and fun-loving people who would choose a B&B. Because people who have traveled a lot understand. What is a bed and breakfast? Sounds elegant small fresh. In fact, it is to go to the countryside to feed mosquitoes. Unless it is not bad money and curious. If you are traveling poorly. Choosing a hotel will be cheaper than a B&B. Especially those hotels that are farther away from the city.
B&B industry now: late entry B&B rental costs are high, has passed the dividend period, if their own architectural aesthetics as well as hotel accommodation experience is insufficient, it is recommended to hand over to a professional design team. Location is demanding, unless you can make yourself a destination, but not many can do that at the moment. Online platforms are far down the road of disgusting B&Bs, and so-called guest complaints immediately limit traffic. B&B operating costs are higher than hotels, many things are customized, and your labor costs are difficult to control, you wash the cost of the fabric are several times higher than others. B&B must do supporting value-added services to do product sales, that is, B&B is a customer attraction, for example, you are doing aromatherapy, then you are actually doing an aromatherapy experience museum, selling products is a very important source of income.
B&Bs can be profitable, but only if you are cut out of the industry long enough.
A friend of mine from 15 years to go to a few well-known domestic net red attractions, such as Lijiang, Yangshuo, Phoenix, and so on, the B&B hosts too much good, he also and many B&B owners have exchanged, asked about the business situation, fancy is not the wind and flowers and snowy nights, not the ballad of the encounter, fancy is a business opportunity, but also to do the planning, fundraising, and got the support of a few old brother, when a lot of media in the God Blow the beauty of the B&B, a variety of stories will be, after examining a few places, so chose Yangshuo, the main consideration is the convenience of high-speed rail, large flow of people, relying on the source of the Pearl River Delta, trustee to find a building on the edge of Yangshuo County, the opening price of 3.6 million, excited to kill the details of the Yangshuo to talk about, thinking that so mature scenic area, the idea should be very enlightened, everything according to the contract, but then they saw what is called The poor mountain water out of the dilemma, a variety of pits, a variety of flip-flop, can only stop halfway, find another way out, a delay is half a year, but quite fortunate, the back of the minibus industry more and more mines, many minibus owners suffering, fortunately did not choose this industry.
He has a friend later in Dali Shuanglang did the B&B, said the magic, next door neighbor is a well-known dancer's private residence, then in the renovation, has been very opulent. That's right, the poor mountain aborigines can ignore all paper contracts and legal responsibilities! The only principle is that there are no principles. The bottom line is that there is no such thing as integrity. Good luck is more or less making some money and counting on picking up a life back! Against can be all not afraid, the key is that you have a few brains dare and a village of men, women and children against. The people are simple and honest from now on in his cognition has become a weird word!
In fact, at the beginning, I also wanted to do their own B&B, that time is also Audemars Piguet is more hot, and at that time, our neighborhood has a number of B&B's, but a very simple market research, I conceded, because most of the people do B&B's do not only operate a suite, a piece of the area's rent how much the B&B one night's room price how much these are very simple to lay out on the surface of the accounts, I calculated that even if I do not run every day, I will be able to do it. I calculate, even if I have people living every night not idle, a month down, at most higher than renting to others two thousand dollars, and during this period I have to operate their own, the first also have to invest in the decoration, during the period of time there will be a variety of trivial chores, compared to renting to other people to do it really don't be too easy, but also to free themselves to do a job.
The cost of this industry is not low
Ordinary small county three houses about one hundred square feet, ceiling and wall labor costs plus material costs of about five thousand average down one thousand seven a, you open the B&B room to bring a toilet, water heater, air conditioning, two beds, a coffee table, two stools, bed sheets, quilt covers, pillows, blankets, coat racks, chandeliers, these hardware plus a set of decoration down! The cost of a room directly to 10,000 to go, and then the kitchen a whole set of things down and a few thousand dollars we take a whole count three thousand well, in fact, far more than a commercial freezer at least a thousand, a cooker at least a few hundred again, we count according to this, do not want to be more than we counted you ten rooms well, this is a set of close to eleven thousand down, and then the dining room and the lobby, the two even with the decoration of the tables, chairs and benches You can save a little bit of counting three thousand good, and then security monitoring this is a must have, according to the standard set down about two thousand, hardware is almost one hundred and fifteen thousand or so, and then staffing, the cashier plus the hall to their own costs can be saved, a chef's monthly salary of at least 4,000 to 5,000, less than this number you can not recruit, even if you find it you do not dare to use.
Cleaning plus handyman we count by two people a month at least three thousand, only to hire a cleaning aunty, but every day is 1 o'clock to check in, 12 o'clock to check out, pick up and drop off the tenant also have to help go to clean the ten sets of house health, because everyone check out and check in time is not the same, staggered cleaning, health have to ensure that the cleanliness of all the change of washable sets of covers, towels, all these, they are their own, these can be outsourced, but the relative cost is relatively high is the second. But the relatively high cost is the second, outsourced cleaning aunts will not necessarily give you clean, and this is an industry that eats word of mouth, a bad review can basically destroy a suite, have seen countless B&B bosses is so bankrupt, and now the industry is very difficult to eat, the price of the fight is very low, basically cheating to a one is a one, the health of the basic cleaning, resulting in consumers do not trust the B&B.
Other firefighting equipment, fire permits, business licenses a series of documents with or without a minimum of five thousand to ten thousand, other website advertising and other moths do not care about him, let's calculate how much we need now - you open a B&B in the premise of not taking into account the rent of a minimum of twelve thousand to prepare! Seven thousand yuan, rent is generally a year a conservative estimate will not be less than 20,000, all profits can only rely on the peak season to earn, as long as the off-season does not lose even good luck, because there is rent, plus other costs, 150,000 is a very appropriate figure, according to the current level of per capita income to calculate the 150,000 is almost a dual-income family of two people a year's salary, if you do not have a mine or parents If you do not have a home mine or parents who do not care about the money of a million dollars a year, it is really not recommended that you engage in this, entrepreneurial failure is not terrible, terrible is the failure of the whole family to spend a few years, more than a dozen years of time to climb up.
Basic entrepreneurial success to meet, the first you must have enough experience in this industry and experience, have seen a variety of strange situations can be dealt with, and then you do have a unique talent and advantage in this industry. The ability to do things that no one else can do. And finally you need to have one. At least in enough time to give you a stable a backing, let's say the stability of the policy, let's say the upstream and downstream channel of the smooth, if these are not reliable, at any time will be changed or even interrupted, then you do well, suddenly upstream and downstream a section of the whole army was immediately wiped out. Let's say the first two have, you have a wealth of experience in the hotel, you are also the design aspects of the operation of the master, you run to a place to open a B&B, may be running a hot business, but people want to environmental management, a sweeping all to you off, you immediately call the day should not be called the ground does not work. And then let's say this force majeure, let's say the epidemic, you engage in food and beverage also die a thorough.
So honestly work to enhance their professional value, so that they can do in this industry to have an irreplaceable level. Design, you have to design the top of the class, you engage in the program to design others can not do the program, you can worry. Otherwise, slowly waiting to be eliminated, and then transition, or better than blindly to start a business!