MONDAY, MARCH 30

Aspiring Innkeepers Seminar (additional fee)

Invest in your innkeeping future!
$199 PAII Members/ $299 Nonmembers

Spend and exciting day with highly experienced innkeepers and industry experts exploring innkeeping as a career, as a potential business opportunity and as your dream come true. Our experts will provide a solid baseline to support your decision process. We will cover everything from acquisition and valuation to marketing and day-to-day operations in a fast paced, fact filled, fun day focused totally on aspiring innkeepers like you. Start with the Full Day Seminar, Stay for the Conference
Aspiring Innkeeper swill get the most benefit by using the full-day seminar described above as a foundation and then attending workshops at the Innkeeping Conference and Trade Show. Workshops with a Novice level designation are appropriate for Aspiring innkeepers.

Special Guest Appearance!
Howard Helmer, who holds the Guinness record as the fastest omelet maker in the world, will show you the secret to making individual omelets in under one minute! You will even have a chance to practice your new skill and sample the results.

 Association Leaders Meeting (additional fee)

Join your peers from across the country for a day of enlightening discussions and informative presentations designed specifically for state and local B&B association leaders. The agenda will focus on association management and leadership topics, as well as issues the group wants to discuss. The day is aimed at helping you run a more successful association.

Who should attend: Officers, board members, staff, and volunteers of all state and local B& B associations. Please limit to two people per association. Fee: $25, includes lunch

The Power of Couples in Business Together (additional fee)

This workshop is PAII's answer to your requests about bringing an element to the Innkeeping Conference & Tradeshow that allows innkeepers to take some time out for themselves...something that you rarely have the chance to do. This interactive workshop will focus on the practical; accepting vulnerabilities, mistakes, constructive conflict and apology, recognizing differences, and establishing equality and enjoyment. We have shared with the presenters the top three challenges you face when working with a spouse or loved one and the program will be built specifically on what our members shared.

The team that will be presenting have been successful life and business partners for 30 years, working in collaboration with their clients to produce lasting results in the areas of leadership, relationship, communication, conflict resolution and gender issues. They have good friends who are innkeepers which precipitated PAII matching up with them. They are experts in working with entrepreneurial individuals including couples and families to cultivate strong relationships and clear communications while developing thriving businesses. They are committed to and have asked if they can reach out to members who work with spouses and loved ones as part of their research in developing this program. Nancy Miriam Hawley, LICSW is a founder of the Boston Women's Health Book Collective, Inc., the organization responsible for writing the best seller Our Bodies, Ourselves (New York: Simon and Schuster, translated into 18 languages; updated 2005) and Jeffrey R. McIntyre, LMFT is a leadership coach to business owners and executives and an instructor in family and couples' therapy at the Harvard Medical School.

This pragmatic and interactive workshop will include lecture, exercises and discussion.

Fee: $99 for one, $175 for two people from the same inn

First-timers Welcome Gathering

(Subject to change, last updated 10/23/08)