You can find hotels with massive potential because of their location, but they need to be managed better. The owners will likely talk with you about a potential sale.

All these places on this list are in some (often weird) way inspiring for me. So I thought this compilation might be useful for another hospitality nerd.

At the beginning of this year, I wanted to buy a mountain lodge. It was an old A-frame hotel in one of Slovakia's less popular ski resorts. With 11 rooms and a price tag of 500.000€, it seemed to be a good opportunity.

The pandemic changed everything as single nomads now have own families. There is a niche market for many hospitality concepts in this area.

I assume that they might be making about 2M Eur revenue a year - nice for a small indie project with a few contractors and a huge margin. With some niches, you can build a business much bigger than park4night.

Who never dreamed of a vacation home near the beach or mountains? A “stopper” for most people is the price and hassle of maintaining such a property. Startups like Pacaso are trying to solve this with fractional ownership.

There are only two ways to make money in business: One is to bundle; the other is to unbundle. So the idea behind unbundling of Airbnb is simple: Pick a niche use case with passionate but unsatisfied guests and then build a business around it.

The housing market in Amsterdam is crazy and buying a flat is extremely challenging. This is an article I’d have like to read when I started my journey. There will be many insights shared but no recommendations of specific services. No promotional bullshit.

Remote work is here to stay and it opens plenty of opportunities for hospitality. The hospitality industry has been very reactive when it comes to new trends which presents an opportunity for those capable of predicting the near future (not rocket science, actually). It's time to build 💪

I'm absolutely passionate about the glamping business and the opportunities that prefab houses open. There is a huge disproportion between the price of prefab houses and how much you can charge for them on Airbnb.

We have been hosting 100’s of retreats in dozens of properties all around the world over the last 4 years. My job for a while was to qualify these partners and I’d like to share some insights from this process. 

Camper vans have always been tolerated by the local authorities even if it’s not legal to stay overnight on the beach. But it's no surprise that the current situation has escalated to the point that police have started to fine the campers.

Over the years I’ve made many mistakes, and that's why it’s easy for me to spot them now. Through listening to the stories of other coliving founders and observing their businesses, I thought it might be beneficial to write these mistakes down and share them here.

The easiest way to start a coliving business is to pivot your existing hospitality business in that direction. You don't have to go all in. In fact, I actually don't recommend it.

Such a simple question but I had a hard time answering it myself when I started my coliving business. Over the years, I’ve noticed that very few new founders actually think about this before starting out.

When I first opened my coliving space, I had a very hard time deciding which location to choose. In the end, the final decision was Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and these were the main reasons:

Marketing and acquisition of coliving guests is usually the last thing new operators focus on when they’re getting started. Marketing tends to stay a low priority until operators realize that the rooms are empty. Often, they end up looking for magic (and fast!) solutions. Too late.

The more rooms you have, the more customers you can serve, the more money you can make. That's why you need to have a certain number of rooms to make the business work. ‍

In my opinion the decision to buy or rent attributes to about 80% of your success. Even if you do everything else perfectly, your business will suffer if you make a bad decision with renting or buying a property.‍

Coliving is just a concept. Many types of properties can be easily converted into a coliving space. You can convert a hotel, hostel, villa, or even a motel into a coliving space relatively easily.

I started a coliving business in 2013. We scaled it to 3 spaces in Spain, California, and Portugal. Then we pivoted, and changed the company into a completely different business (company retreats) while still keeping the brand.

It’s one of the biggest headaches for property owners; getting bookings in mid and low seasons. I’ve been partly involved in the property business for a few years now, and these are just some of the tricks that I’ve learned along the way to boost bookings.

Starting small is the right way to build a brand but it's difficult to make a profitable business out of it. You need a certain number of rooms to make your unit economics work. In my experience, the minimum number of rooms to start is ideally 20 or more.

Almost all hotels want to attract groups but very few actually figure out how to do it. I’m going to share some tactics and knowledge I’ve learned over the years to get them in this article.

In the past, when you wanted to build a web app or tool, coding skills were a necessity. Today, however, there are plenty of options available for those of us with more limited coding knowledge to find success.

Being an organizer of a coworking day is a great opportunity to connect with the local community. I found it as a fantastic “hack” when you move to a new city and want to quickly create connections with like-minded people.

My first touch with Gran Canaria was about 10 years ago when I purchased a cheap Ryanair flight and escaped a cold, European winter for 10 days. Since then I fell in love with this beautiful island.

I never planned to build a cabin.‍‍‍ First, I wanted to rent one, then I wanted to buy one. ‍‍It was only with desperation after having no luck with these first two attempts, that I decided to build one.

But how do we define some locations on a map as touristy and others not? Can we measure the level of “touristy-ness”? What would be the formula? ‍

My goal was to create the best piece of information on the internet about Lisbon's neighbourhoods.

Individuals don’t want to pay for a coworking desk.