The Datum Report

Occupation 6250 · Caring, leisure and other service occupations

Bed and breakfast and guest house owners and proprietors

Bed and breakfast and guest house owners and proprietors plan, organise, direct and co-ordinate the activities and resources bed and breakfasts and guest houses.

How people enter it

No formal qualifications are required for entry. A range of relevant courses in hospitality and management are available.

What the work involves

• welcomes and ensures physical comfort of residents/guests and makes special arrangements for children, the elderly and the infirm if required
• provides certain meals for guests
• maintains and cleans establishment
• determines financial, staffing, material and other short- and long-term needs
• markets business and finds new business
• arranges for payment of bills, keeps accounts and ensures adherence to licensing and other statutory regulations

Also called

Guest house owner · Landlady (guest house)

What it pays

Every regional figure

ONS does not publish occupational pay below region. Cells the survey could not support are shown as withheld, with its reason — adding a region split to a specific occupation leaves roughly a tenth of cells publishable.

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