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Offering Walking Tours for Your Guests

One way to get those crucial return bookings, especially during the off season, is to give your guests something out of the ordinary, an experience they remember.

And we’re not talking expensive, time-consuming efforts on your part, either. Sometimes the ideas can be simple and inexpensive to offer.

Like walking tours. Can antsy guests staying at your hotel, who want to get out and see some of the local sights or who just have some time to kill and want some fresh air, take a mapped-out walking tour easily? You could provide them with well-annotated maps of the areas around the hotel, calibrated for twenty-minute walks, half an hour, one or two-hour walks.

You might even make deals with restaurants or attractions along the route for including them as a point of interest on the walk.

“Millennials are more likely than any previous generation to go on a walking tour,” writes HospitalityNet. “From Kumano Kodo pilgrimage in Japan to Tasmanian walking tours – tourists have never been more ready to get their legs working.”

In addition to giving guests – who might be accompanying the person with the actual reason to be in the area and who may be somewhat bored as a result – something interesting to do that burns off energy, a well-planned walking tour offers “a sense of achievement,” HospitalityNet says, even if it’s not a professionally-guided tour in Manhattan or some other exotic locale.

Travellers genuinely want to see a bit of the area, and for many of them simply walking around the neighborhood qualifies as an interesting thing to do, especially if they only have an hour or so to kill.

And if your hotel can help them with this, they’ll remember that.