From Cyriacus Nnaji, Lagos
“To be successful in hotel company in Nigeria, you require to be versatile and have great preparation and organisational abilities. Lots of people ventured into hotel company believing that they will switch on their computer systems or open their doors and begin earning money, just to discover that generating income in a service is a lot more tough than they believed.”
Above were the views of Sandra Ogbahor, the Regional Manager of BON Hotels Nest Bodija-Ibadan, Oyo State throughout an interaction with some senior Travel and Tourism press reporters on Wednesday, March 8, 2023.
According to her, purchasing hospitality organization is extremely financially rewarding and earnings driven, nevertheless such a financier requires great deals of perseverance, tolerance, discipline and also planning all the required actions to attain success whilst likewise preventing the mistakes of business.
She stated, “To be effective in hospitality organization you require to be arranged. Company will assist you total jobs and remain on top of things to be done. A great way to do this is to produce an order of business every day. As you total each product, inspect it off your list. This will guarantee that you’re not forgetting anything and you’re finishing all the jobs that are necessary to the survival of your company.
“You similarly require to develop robust consumer commitment that will provide you excellent marketing. Deal offers or specials. Group discount rates, totally free breakfast and lower rates for several-day stays are an excellent way to bring in consumers on a budget plan.
“Design a site. If your hotel isn’t on the web, it’s generally unnoticeable to your possible consumers. You might create your own site however it might deserve the financial investment to have an expert deal with your website. At the minimum, your website must have the hotel’s name, place, contact details and nighttime rates. The individual would need to invest cash on ad; get required devices and centers. Above all, work with specialists and excellent hands to handle business.
“Also, the owner of business, as the president, need to be properly associated with business. It is likewise essential that you have commercial cleaning maker, have the water treatment in the hotel so that the visitors would have excellent water, not simply for drinking, even for bathing. Health is extremely crucial.
“Besides, you need to have the ability to get your items straight from the business without needing to travel through the intermediaries particularly when business is at its infant phase. That would even more conserve expense and enhance your revenue.
“I indicate, such items like sodas, beer, juice, foods like semo, milk. You need to purchase your cow, chicken, goat live and massacre them. This suggests you need to have a choice up in addition to a cold space for conservation. With those things in location, the hotel company is a great service.”
While using additional point of view on purchasing Nigeria’s hotel company, Sandra, an alumnus of prominent Lagos State University has this to state:
“All effective organizations keep in-depth records. By keeping in-depth records, you’ll understand where business stands economically and what possible obstacles you might be dealing with. Feeling in one’s bones this provides you time to develop methods to get rid of those difficulties.”
Sandra is likewise of the belief that organization chances are plentiful all over in the nation, however with a caution that it takes an astute financier to determine these chances and use them appropriately, especially when the option of financial investment remains in hotel company and management.
