WULOLIFE
"Leave Some Time for Strangers" Author: Wu Hou Publisher: CITIC Press
"Leave Some Time for Strangers" Author: Wu Hou Publisher: CITIC Press
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Introduction · · · · · ·
"The life I pursue is to go to the green mountains and clear waters and put aside all worries...", find a place with clean sunshine, air and water, make friends with the land and crops, care for each other, and make a living by selling "good life", this can probably be considered a lifestyle.
This book records how Wu Hou quit his job as a university teacher and started a one-room B&B, which later developed into nearly 20 beautiful B&Bs, his management experience, and his understanding of the B&B lifestyle. With one hand holding his feelings and the other holding the reality, he selected the site, rented, decorated, managed, met strangers... He lived in B&Bs for more than 200 days a year, leaving part of his time for strangers.
As his B&B became more and more successful, more and more colleagues came to him for advice, and he himself summed up a set of management experience on how to run a popular B&B:
In the vast beautiful countryside, B&B is still a calm blue ocean. There is no need to fight for it in seemingly hot places.
The organic combination of culture and B&B and the adoption of the diversified management mode of “B&B +” are the individual proposition and key to success of urban B&B.
The key to renting a house and opening a B&B is to look for a house like looking for a soul mate, and of course the longer the lease period, the better.
B&Bs with no more than fifteen rooms are more likely to be successfully run.
Soft furnishings are the core elements that reflect the style of a popular homestay, and they are more important than decoration.
I gain word of mouth through warm service and free quality lifestyle products that can touch the souls of customers.
A profound B&B host culture requires interaction with guests; a self-indulgent host culture is not a true host culture.
Vigorously developing the housekeeping culture is the key to successfully making the B&B business stronger, bigger and longer-lasting.
The biggest advantage of B&B is that it allows guests to feel the warmth of home while also having the novelty of traveling.
Integrating local culture and the host’s cultural taste into B&B operations can evoke emotional resonance in guests.
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He said, "A B&B owner is a life lover who understands operation, management, and life, and has a sense of quality. Opening a B&B may seem easy, but it is actually not simple. B&B is still a business after all."
About the Author
Wu Hou, whose real name is Duan Jinhu, is also known as Duan Wangye. He is a university teacher who is not doing his job properly and an expert in hiking and self-driving tours. He has traveled to many countries and regions in Southeast Asia, and is particularly obsessed with homestays in Japan, South Korea, Thailand and Taiwan. After resigning from his teaching position and opening his first homestay, he was unstoppable. Under the value of "small shops, petty bourgeoisie, niche, deep in the alleys", his homestays are flourishing everywhere, and each of them survives well. He is currently a consultant for many homestays.
