Offering travel planning

[Bailey131]

As an avid airbnb user and travel planner, I'm curious if hosts would be interested in offering their clients additional travel planning support through a third party? If you didn't have to do anything except offer the service and in turn, you would make a small income from the itinerary, would you do it? 

[Kitty-and-Creek0]

@Bailey131 

Your service may be a good one for the right folks, though, especially in your local area!!  Durango and the area around there is gorgeous!

I already do this gratis for my guests, I believe that this planning and concierge service is what my guests deserve from me as their host. Most of my younger guests are so digital that they have no issues doing it themselves, with my recommendations for local things. My foreign guests have their travels well planned before they depart home, I've found. As a local, who frequents the local places and gathers reviews from respected sources, I seem to do ok. 

 My mother-in-law's home in Denver was our HQ for exploring, and wow! I still love some excellent boots I bought in Durango decades ago, and still order books from Tattered Cover.  So much to do and to be totally stunned by where you live. Where I live, it is just as scenic and rich - just differently. Some day I'll look you up when I return. Until then, please enjoy those gorgeous seasons and this colorful Autumn. ❤️🍁🗻

[Elisa]

Hi @Bailey131 😊

Thank you for asking this in the community!

Are you planning to offer this service? How did you come up with the idea?

I've mentioned some experienced hosts, let's see what they think about this.

@Joan2709 @Joelle4 , @Andrea6232, @Frances3408.

Warm regards🌻,

[Bailey131]

Thanks for your reply, Elisa! A business partner and I are indeed working on this kind of service. I am a professional travel planner and would be able to offer group services beyond offering a guidebook. We could make restaurant reservations, secure private chefs, hire cars and drivers, and really anything else a group would need. Think of it like a concierge service!

Hosts would offer it for free to their guests, we would handle all logistics as a third party (licensed travel advisors), and in return, we would pay the host either a flat fee per person or something along those lines.

Of course, our goal would be to provide excellent service to every single person, but in the off-chance that a negative experience were to come up, our terms would include a statement saying that they cannot leave the host a bad review for our work. 

This means there is no additional work on the host beyond recommending our services, and could potentially make a nice additional income on their group bookings. We would most likely be targeting homes with 3 rooms or more. 

[Bailey131]

Oh, but I should mention that the cost of the service would be around $50-100/day depending on the size of the group, charged directly to the guest.