How To Buy and Run Your Own Hotel
How To Buy And Run Your Own Hotel
by Chipping Sobury Author and Proprietor of the Rounceval House
Hotel
The essential guide to giving up the day job and running your
own hotel – from someone who`s done it.
Fed up with the 9-5? Hankering after a new challenge? Desperate to
be your own boss?
Why not buy and run a small hotel?
How To Buy and Run Your Own Hotel by Mark Lloyd is a new book which
holds your hand as you give up the safety of your current profession
and leap into the unknown.
This is exactly what Mark himself did two years ago when he gave up
his career in events management and bought a small hotel in South
Gloucestershire. His only knowledge of hotels up to that point was
through staying in them as a guest. When he looked for a book to
guide him through the day-to-day process he couldn’t find anything
that prepared him for what such a venture entailed.
So Mark wrote his own guide, based on his own experience - from the
moment he persuaded his partner to join him in his dream, to
choosing the location and buying the property. He describes a year
in the life of a hotel manager and the details of the daily
schedule, warts and all. Having just remortgaged in the middle of
the credit crunch he can also give advice on how to keep one`s
professional head in a near financial crisis!
It is anecdotal and easy to read, but full of detailed practical
advice and the important lessons that need to be learnt – in this
case from someone else’s mistakes.
Commenting on the book Lloyd says, “This book is dedicated to all
the people who thought, and probably still think, we were mad to
make such a drastic change to our lives. More important, it is
dedicated to all of you out there who are thinking of a similar
venture. To some of you such a change will be just a pipe dream; to
others it will be more than that – much more, in fact!”
About the author: At the age of 45 Mark Lloyd, an events organiser,
had had enough of working for other people. With his wife and family
he moved from Watford to run his own hotel in Chipping Sodbury,
Gloucestershire. He had no previous experience of the hotel
industry. Eighteen months later he has a successful hotel – and no
regrets.
How To Buy and Run Your Own Hotel is published by How To Books Ltd
www.howtobooks.co.uk and
is available at £14.99 in major bookshops and online retailers
across the country. ISBN 978-1- 84528-275-2
To arrange an interview with Mark please contact Katie Read 07837
485642 katie@katieread.co.uk
To receive a review copy, please contact:
Joanne Salt at How To Books Ltd. 01865 309589
joanne.salt@howtobooks.co.uk
