Guest & Strategy: a great spirit of support
In a few words, what is Guest & Strategy?
Since March 2010, Guest & Strategy is one of the first agencies to have specialised in assisting project owners and owners of bed and breakfast and furnished accommodation. 🔥
Yes, they accompany these ambitious entrepreneurs, regardless of their status as defined by the tourism code. Whether they are classified as furnished tourist accommodation, hotels, campsites, guest houses, youth hostels or tourist residences.
Their expertise
Project feasibility study
This expertise is there to give emergence to the DNA of your tourism project.
This support will allow you to anticipate the birth and development of your activity on all levels 😁 positioning, legal status, financial investment, the activity forecast, the competition, the marketing and sales strategy with, of course, the retroplanning.
And there you have it, thanks to all this, it becomes the real guide to creation, the roadbook!
Follow it carefully to maximise your chances of success! 😉
Training courses
With Guest & Strategy, you will have the chance to follow individual training courses in direct interaction with the trainer. Not bad, eh ? 😁
In addition to doing one-to-one training, Guest & Strategy offers 100% remote and online training with their new Guest Learning tool coming soon !
This will allow you to become more professional in areas such as web marketing, website design, customer experience, feasibility studies and pricing strategies. 😊
Marketing
Once the feasibility of the project is validated, it’s time to create your brand image !
Don’t worry, the Guest & Strategy team are more than used to accompanying entrepreneurs in the tourism field, listening to you of course and especially by your side. 😉
Whether it’s a website or business cards, Guest & Strategy takes care of it !
Support
That’s it, you’ve validated the feasibility of your project and it’s time for you to get started ! 🚀
No stress, Guest & Strategy does not leave you totally in the wild, 😉 the team accompanies you in the management and coordination of your project in the “pre-opening” phase.
A double target
Tourism socio-professionals
Guest & Strategy assists tourism socio-professionals in the various phases of setting up or managing their business. 😊
Internal institutional actors
To guide and advise the internal institutional actors in the evolution of their relationship with these socio-professionals, by proposing new service offers adapted to their needs. 😉
Boost your rental bookings: some tips
As you know, we are here to help you. That’s why we’ve done some research to find you the best tips to boost your housing reservation requests.
1. Offer an equipped home
The most important thing when you arrive in an accommodation is to feel at home. To propose an equipped accommodation is an important notion for many vacationers.
The most important thing? A good wifi connection, especially nowadays with work at home. Next comes a workspace. A separate room or a place you set up yourself for the occasion.
Another good point? A functional and useful kitchen: oven, microwave, fridge, kitchenware, dishes. Specifying it in your rental will attract potential customers.
2. Flexible cancellation and booking conditions
A good way to boost your bookings is also to offer a flexible booking.
With the new sanitary measures, a stand-alone entrance is popular. The plus in your favor? Offer instant booking, your guests will book on a whim and you will not be in competition with other renters who could respond before you to their request. Play the card of instantaneousness.
Concerning the cancellation, it’s up to you but too complex conditions or a non-guaranteed refund can be an obstacle to the reservation.
3. Boost your rental by accepting pets
Did you know. Searches on “pets allowed” increased by 65% in January 2021 (compared to the same period the year before).
So by highlighting that you acceptez If you want to accept pets in your accommodation, you will gain visibility and reservations.
If you are a little reluctant to accept animals, you can already limit the list: dogs and cats represent about 80% of pets. This is more than enough.
If you are worried about the hair, you can ask for an extra cleaning fee and specify in which part of the house you do not want the animals to go.
With these tips, you should see your booking requests climb. Don’t hesitate to give us your feedback or tips that have proven successful!
Discover our Facebook group to help you
Because we want to help you, we have created a groupe Facebook open to all renters of vacation rentals. We give you many tips based on current events and are open to all topics of discussion. We show you!
1. What are we talking about in the group?
This group is intended to create a community of mutual aid for owners of vacation rentals (via Airbnb, HomeExchange, Booking, Abritel…).
We cover all the topics that can help you. You can ask any question you want. So, whether it’s from us or from the community, you’ll get an answer quickly.
Only a few posts are not allowed:
– Sharing rental ads
– Advertisements
– Contests
– Spam / Scams
2. Who can join the Facebook group?
Everybody! We just ask a few questions when you sign up to make sure that this group is of interest to you. Especially about the sites you use for your rental. Finally, your registration is not automatic, we have to validate it.
If you see that you are still not accepted after a few days, do not panic! Our team is always on the lookout to be as present as possible on the group.
3. Why is it interesting for you to join?
Because everyone can answer you! So you will have all kinds of feedback and you will also be in direct contact with many rental companies.
Also because we update our tips every week to adapt them to the current situation.
So you’re interested? I promise the content is interesting, no spam, only good advice!