Starting Up

As a bed and breakfast owner you are likely to be using the internet as a way of advertising your B&B and keeping in contact with past customers, but you need to be aware of the implications of ...

Health and safety rules and regulations cannot be avoided when you're running any sort of business where the public are on your property. A bed and breakfast will present a number of areas where ...

Tip top attention to housekeeping in the guest rooms and other areas of your B&B will do more to keep customers happy, and keep them coming back, than any amount of testing the water with different ...

Insurance is one of those items that's easy to overlook after a few years but it's important to a bed and breakfast business to check it at least every year and make sure that you are sufficiently ...

You would be the luckiest business owner in the world if you end up running a B&B for a while without ever having to resort to legal advice, but as long as you do the basic groundwork the situation ...

Disabled access regulations now mean that bed and breakfast owners have a number of responsibilities for providing information and access for disabled guests, or potential guests. For some, the ...

Anti-discrimination laws can affect bed and breakfast owners in three ways: firstly the application of the equal employment opportunity laws, secondly the disability discrimination act with regard ...

Setting different guest room rates in throughout the year is a delicate juggling act between covering business costs and countering competition while at the same allowing for a reasonable profit ...

For many people the thought of managing accounts and tax issues is a major barrier to setting up any small business and a B&B is no exception, but all it needs is a bit of organisation and ...