I want to witte a business plan on accommodation,catering and conferance facilities please help me

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See if you have a local Small Business Development Center (SBDC), Business Resource Center or SCORE office to get advice on where to begin. You can check the list on Bplans.com (http://www.bplans.com/business_planning_resources/sbdc/ or http://www.bplans.com/business_planning_resources/score /). Your local Chamber of Commerce office should be able to provide some resources as well. On Bplans.com there are over 500 sample business plans that you can learn from.

As far as beginning, the success of any business plan is within the quality of the information provided. Once you determine the type of business you want to go into the plan itself is to represent the operation on paper as if it already exists. How much revenue is expected, from where, the marketing plan that prompts the sales, the infrastructure needed to meet the needs of doing business as well as other related actions and costs. Take your time and talk to as many people as possible for information. Please keep in mind doing your homework up front is like taking on an insurance policy. It increases your chances of succeeding by eliminating the unknowns. In the end there are always other variables.

This is the basics for most Guesthouse, Lodges, Game Lodges and B & B's etc in South Africa.

We are fortunate that our Government has established an Incentive Scheme in this regard.

Their Tourism Enterprise Program provides for the payment of a non-taxable, non-repayable Grant for a period of 3 years.

This Grant is equal to 10 % of your Investment per annum, and paid out every 6 months.

A great initiative !

Aubrey
leseding@mail.com
South Africa