"We will spend the next 12 months implementing ideas and tips from the conference. Some of the sessions had such great information; they easily could have lasted half a day or more. Thank you!"
Stephen O'Connor, The Tefft House
STRATEGY, LEGAL AND FINANCIAL
Keep your investment safe by knowing how to handle financial information, how to minimize liability, and look at options for moving on.
Profitable Performance
Strategies
Learn
how to evaluate your performance and quickly identify what is and isn't
profitable for your inn so that you can focus your energy on the things that
make you money. Leave this workshop with
a game plan for how you will implement these strategies when you return to your
inn.
The Latest on Lawsuit
Protection and Liability Each
innkeeper should know what to do to ensure
financial immunity from business-related lawsuits. Learn about the latest laws that can help you
and the ones that could be potential pitfalls.
From "Yes" to
Success: The Closing Process from Agreement to Transfer Perspectives
from both sides of the table. Understand the skills, techniques, and psychology
of the negotiating process. Become familiar with standard contracts,
addendums, financing options, asset allocation, covenants and commitments.
Navigate the world of conveyancing, contingencies, inspections and
certifications as either a Buyer or Seller so you can: "Close the
Deal".
QuickBooks Part I and II These two
workshops will cover everything from why good,
solid and regular financial record- keeping is essential to the running of a
business to the more advanced skills that
every innkeeper needs to know to get the most out of Quickbooks or any other
accounting software. Workshop II
includes using reports to manage your inn business and improve results and
performance goals.
Performance Indicators and
Pricing
Join
this panel discussion on understanding rate management, occupancy rates as a
measure of quality, locations impact on length of stay, RevPar, Occ, and
ADR. Hear specifically what an innkeeper
can use, and then real examples from Innkeepers.
Assess the Return on
Inn-vestment
This
workshop with be an informative practical discussion on the steps to
effectively analyze the return on your investment followed by a full panel on
feasibility.
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Favorite! These
are top-rated workshops from the 2008 PAII
Convention. If you were not there or did not
attend these particular workshops, you have
another chance to hear these outstanding presentations.