Building a Destination Business

Direct bookings, brand and escaping platform dependence

The final holiday-let book is about building a business that guests come to directly, rather than one that depends on a listing. It shows you how to standardise before you scale, treat the turnaround as the heartbeat of the operation, win bookings at the enquiry stage and make reviews a system rather than luck. You will see when you have become the bottleneck, the order in which to hire and how your own job must change. The funding chapter covers the main routes to the next property, stress-testing against the bad year and keeping a seasonal reserve. Further chapters set out the core software stack, automating the guest journey, and the risks of growth, from platform dependence and regulatory change to the VAT threshold, safety, insurance and data. The book is honest about where self-teaching stops working and ends with a twelve-month plan to build the systems, the team, the brand and your direct bookings. This is the final book in the Holiday Lets After the FHL Abolition series.

What’s inside

• The systems that let you repeat this reliably
• Building the team around you
• Funding growth without over-leveraging
• Software and automation that pays for itself
• Managing risk as you get bigger
• Where self-teaching stops working, honestly
• Your twelve-month scale plan

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