{"id":148725,"date":"2017-04-12T08:15:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T06:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/148725\/top-tips-for-running-a-successful-guest-house\/"},"modified":"2017-04-12T08:53:03","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T06:53:03","slug":"top-tips-for-running-a-successful-guest-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2017\/04\/12\/top-tips-for-running-a-successful-guest-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Top tips for running a successful guest house"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A guest house is not an easy business to run.<\/p>\n<p>You need to ensure people feel comfortable and get that \u201chome away from home\u201d experience.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The GCN spoke to a local guest house owner and found out her top five tips for running a successful guest house.<\/p>\n<p>1. It is extremely important to have a good relationship with travel agents.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>2. Your premises must be spotlessly clean at all times.<\/p>\n<p>3. Food must be tasty, well presented, fresh and well prepared.<\/p>\n<p>4. You must provide a tranquil and relaxed atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>5. The owner should be involved in every aspect of the business and should not leave everything up to their manager to take care of.<\/p>\n<p><em>Information supplied by Heleen Ten Napel, owner of Lions Rest.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You may also be interested in:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/guest-houses\/\">Guest Houses<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='1398c890a753c67cff72e1483bee00ac'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local guest house owner gives her top five tips.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":148726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[508,7,2],"tags":[979,969,14269,14270,2734,2395],"class_list":["post-148725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-choice","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-guest-house","tag-lions-rest","tag-melissa-hart","tag-tips"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["germiston","germiston city news","guest house","lions rest","melissa hart","Tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}