How to open a hotel

Hotel services are in demand today in all major cities, but not every tourist or company sending a “foreign land” to their employee will be able to pay for accommodation in central city hotels. Four- and five-star "giants" of the hotel market do not remain without a client, maintaining their status. Demand for economy class apartments is still high. You can take advantage of this and take a relatively free niche by opening a small hotel yourself.

You will need

• 1. The building (or part of the building) transferred to non-residential fund

• 2. Hotel planning project approved and agreed

• 3. The package of permits

• 4. Utility Contracts

• 5. A complete set of hotel equipment and hotel items

• 6. Supply of consumables (soap, disposable shampoos, hygiene paper, etc.)

• 7. Staff (minimum ten people)

• 8. Partnerships with catering and laundry facilities located nearby (or directly inside the hotel)

Instruction manual

1

Try to choose the path that you will take, solving the main problem facing the future owner of the new hotel: how to get the building (or part of it) at your disposal. You can build a “box” for a hotel yourself, but such a task will not always be justified from a financial point of view, and it’s difficult to find a free place where you would like. And you can buy the space in the housing stock, and then convert it and transfer it to a non-residential fund - the latter is a prerequisite for legitimizing the hotel.

2

Proceed, if you somehow "got" a room for your purposes, to the lengthy procedure of registering a new hotel and going through many formalities. If the building previously served other purposes, it is mandatory to develop and agree on a project for its redevelopment in a number of instances (after you transfer it to a non-residential fund, if these are former apartments). Then proceed to this very redevelopment, and upon completing the work, collect permits from a number of technical inspections and conclude agreements with utilities, whose services you will naturally use.

3

Begin the next long and demanding business - the interior design of the hotel, as well as its associated selection and purchase of hotel equipment. What should be guided by equipping a mini-hotel? First of all, the fact that even mid-level rooms should look perfect. Let the interior elements (furniture, plumbing) and household items (linen, dishes) be inexpensive, but always perfectly clean, new in appearance and functionally full.

4

Finally, lay the last monumental stone in the organization of the hotel that you started - set up such a personnel management system that will work smoothly from the very beginning and in the future, without failures. This means more than just staffing. You must have a talent pool and training. In addition to the manager, work at the hotel is for several administrators, several maids and a staff member who manages the reservation. It is also worth entrusting a professional with accounting.

Useful advice

Until your hotel is widely known, the influx of customers can provide a mutually beneficial agreement with a travel agency that accommodates groups of tourists.

A mandatory requirement for the qualification of the hotel administrator is knowledge of a foreign (read - English) language, and if you do not have English speaking staff, you will encounter situations that do not honor your establishment.

Typical hotel business plan