In today’s world, where small businesses face competition, success isn’t completely dependent on the quality of products and services. The first step towards thriving success is ensuring that customers know about the business. This can be done by spreading awareness through references from popular businesses that have already established themselves or by forming a community to help each other. In this blog, let’s discover how hosts can help small businesses and restaurants thrive. A host can emerge as an unsigned brand ambassador for them in many ways. Let’s explore how a host can contribute to success and establish a culture of community engagement.
Put up a Navigation Board
A host can put up a navigation board where they can mention some neighborhood recommendations, like nearby cafes and restaurants, any unexplored location of that place, or popular attraction points. Through this, they can help support local businesses and direct their guests to unique locations to enhance their stay experience. By doing this, you also get the opportunity to build a network with them, which can lead to more references in the future.
Foster community engagement
Entertainment plays a major role during any stay, as everyone looks for entertainment while on a trip. Therefore, a host can collaborate with different communities and provide them with a chance to grow and achieve success. By hosting events where they can organize musical evenings featuring local bands and planning engaging fun activities involving small businesses or neighboring businesses, the host can invite all their networks, apart from their staying guests, and provide an opportunity for people to network as well.
Host a POP Bazaar
In India, every state, even cities, has some unique products that are the specialties of that place, and that’s how tourism impacts small businesses. Hosts can provide space for those local businesses that promote their culture or heritage through their products. Guest will enjoy shopping as it will become their part of experiencing the rich culture of that particular place. Through this, local businesses also gain the economic benefits of tourism.
Offer Workshop & Classes
Nowadays, the tourism industry is also focusing on providing experience- based travel, which includes learning local art & craft, exploring traditional craftsmanship or wellness sessions with local practitioners. For example, in India, people love to try Yoga & meditation. To take advantage of this trend, hosts can enhance the staying experience of their guests while also supporting local artists, Craftsman and tradition.
Offer Special arrangements
Hosts can also provide special arrangements such as booking an advance reservation at near restaurants or helping prepare surprises to people in any restaurant or café. Apart from that they can suggest nearby restaurants that are best for trying local cuisine.
Add Local Trips in package
In every city, there are many places that may not be widely popular but are famous among locals for their quality and services. Hosts can include a local sightseeing trip in their packages, allowing guests to discover the unexplored side of the place. For these trips hosts can collaborate with many small businesses for food, water, and shopping and introduce their guest to them.These are some ways through which a hosts can help build a vibrant neighbourhood and support small business community. Apart from this initiative, they can host community events and strive for success with the help of each other.
