Beach Resort Business Plan, Marketing Plan, How To Guide, and Funding Directory
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Beach resorts are very popular destinations among people within the United States. These resorts are often found on both the East Coast and West Coast as well as island territories within the country. These businesses are generally able to remain profitable in most economic climates although very high-end beach resorts to suffer from moderate drawbacks in the revenue during times of economic recession. The gross margins generated by these businesses is extremely high and the often carry a number revenue centers. Most beach resorts not only generate revenue from nightly rental of hotel rooms but also from restaurant operations, day spas, excursions, salon services, and room service. These substantial revenue centers allow these businesses to generate a significant amount of revenue per individual or family staying at the resort. The startup costs associated with the new beach resort can vary greatly depending on the location and the size of the facility. Generally, these businesses typically have a startup cost range anywhere from $5 million all the way up to $100 million or more depending on the size and location. Almost all financial institutions are happy to lend a substantial amount of money to beach resort businesses given the fact that the vast majority of this capital is typically used for the acquisition of valuable and as well as real estate. In most cases, the entrepreneur or group of investors looking to launch a new beach resort will be required to put up a 10% to 20% down payment. The ongoing operating expenses of a beach resort are extremely high.
A beach resort SWOT analysis is often developed. As it relates to strengths, these businesses are able to operate with a number of high-margin revenue centers as well as having a substantial tangible asset base. Again, most financial institutions are willing to provide the necessary capital during strong economic climates.
For weaknesses, there are a number beach resorts and related facilities near any major area that has water. As such, the competitive issues at a beach resort will face our substantial. Most importantly, these businesses need to enact a very large scale marketing campaign in order to ensure that they are able to differentiate themselves from other competitors within the market.
As it relates to opportunities, many beach resorts each would seek to expand the revenue base by establishing catering operations, event hosting operations, and corporate retreat operations. Beyond expanding the revenue centers that are associated with the initial facility, some beach resort owners will take to developing second locations once the initial location they own has become very profitable.
Outside of competitive threats, the primary threat that is faced by most beach resorts is a substantial downturn in the economy. These businesses have very high operating expenses, and even moderate declines in revenues can have a significant impact on the company’s profit and loss statements. As such, it is imperative that the entrepreneur develop and maintain proper procedures and protocols in order to reduce costs if required.
A beach resort business plan is typically developed especially if financing is going to be sought from private investors as well as lenders. This business plan should feature a three year to five year profit and loss statement, cash flow analysis, balance sheet, breakeven analysis, and business ratios page. A substantial amount of the business plan analysis should be focused on a demographic that will be targeted with the cam marketing campaign undertaken by the business. These demographics include taking a look at population, population density, number of tourists to the area, median household income of Taurus, number of people within the target market that could potentially work at the beach resort, as well as many of the competitors that are operating within the same market. Almost all financial institutions and all lenders are going to want to see a substantial competitive analysis featured within the business plan.
As it relates to industry research, the hotel industry as a whole generates more than $200 billion a year among more than 95,000 places of lodging. The growth of this industry is expected to remain in lockstep with that of the general economy.
A beach resort marketing plan also needs to be developed and this is going to be one of the most important aspects of the company’s business planning operations. Foremost, many beach resort owners will often hire a specialized marketing and advertising firm to assist the business in reaching its target demographic. Given the extremely high competitive nature of resort based businesses – a qualified marketing firm can be a substantial asset as it relates to properly developing the marketing messages that need to be seen by potential beachgoers. The presence on the Internet is extremely important for beach resort as many people conducted preliminary searches for places they’re going to go on vacation. Online searches. The company’s website should have a number of images of the facility, information about booking a hotel, e-commerce functionality that allows for online booking, and information about the surrounding areas. This will assist potential customers with understanding the amenities that they will be receiving while they are staying at the beach resort.
One of the other ways that beach resorts are able to maintain a very high occupancy during busy months is to develop ongoing relationships with travel agents and corporate specialists throughout the country. Travel agents will be given a substantial commission each time they book someone through the facility. One of the nice things that using travel agents is that they are not compensated in less than a booking is made on behalf of one of their clients. Although many people are conducting many of their own online travel arrangements these days, certain corporate specialists that plan retreats are still in use. These individuals can look out very large numbers of rooms for large-scale corporate retreats and events. As such, it is very important that the beach resort develop relationships with these individuals as well given the fact that the will be able to produce a substantial amount of revenue for the beach resort on an ongoing basis.
A presence on social media is also extremely important for beach resort and profiles on FaceBook, Twitter, Google+, Instagram, and LinkedIn should all be developed. Although it is somewhat of an expense to maintain a substantial social media presence – the return on investment can be very high for the beach resort. This is primarily due to the fact that a number of individuals are staying at the facility will post pictures of their time at the hotel via their social media pages. As such, this can create a substantial amount of new visibility for the beach resort. This is especially important in areas where there are a substantial number beach resorts in operation and owners must look for ways to differentiate themselves within the target market.
There will always be a very strong and continued demand for people that want to go to the beach and stay in luxurious resorts. These businesses are not subject to the risks relating to automation, and the primary risk they face deals significantly with substantial rises in interest rates which can impact the underlying real estate loans are used to develop the facility concurrently having to deal with ongoing competitive issues. These businesses are very popular among real estate investors given the very high return on investment. As such, for a qualified real estate professional were long time hotel owner operator – the development of a beach resort can be a highly lucrative opportunity.