Country Cottages Online features a great choice of rural retreats, farmstays and rustic holilday cottages across the UK.
Running a self-catering holiday cottage business
The job of running self-catering cottages can be divided into the following sub tasks:
- Marketing and promotion
- Taking payments and avoiding payment scams and problems
- Cleaning and maintenance
- Bookings Management
- Accounts and Wages
- Insuring your cottage(s)
- Energy Performance Certificate 2011
- Long-term cottage advertising concerns
Find out more about each of these activities and gain useful inside information.
Cottage owners accounts of running a holiday cottage business
Read cottage owners experiences of running a holiday cottage business in the UK and Ireland and abroad. Discover what it actually entails, learn from their mistakes and what you need to look out for to have a successful lettings business.
Bookings and Enquiry Management
This section is for those people who deal or wish to deal with their own bookings and enquiries.
It discusses possible methods of dealing with enquiry and booking emails efficiently and professionally.
Repeat bookings
Repeat bookings are a boon to cottage owners. Your returning guests validate your cottages and welcome - they can become friends whom you enjoy seeing on an annual basis.
Understanding the process of how and why people choose a cottage to book
You can improve the results obtained from advertising your cottage by understanding how people choose a holiday cottage. In this case it is a single holiday cottage that is being considered and not a purpose built holiday complex – they are in a league of their own.
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Essex
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