The Hotel Owner's Handbook - Building, Running, and Sustaining a Profitable Hotel

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Bruce Prins

The Hotel Owner's Handbook - Building, Running, and Sustaining a Profitable Hotel

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Bruce Prins

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Bruce Prins
23 October 2025

Management & management techniques; Small businesses & self-employed; Service industries

What makes a hotel truly profitable, and why do so many promising ones fail?

Surprisingly, the answer isn't design or marketing hype. It is systems.

The Hotel Owner's Handbook is your practical, disciplined roadmap for building a successful property from the ground up. This book delivers the solution to your biggest challenge: turning a vision into a sustainable, profitable business.

Inside, you will learn how to:

Position your hotel to stand out in a crowded market. Structure governance that empowers managers and protects your investment. Recruit and lead a team that delivers consistent excellence. Maintain financial discipline and stop hidden profit leaks. Future-proof your brand in an era of AI and shifting guest expectations.

Why this book? Author Bruce Prins is a hospitality executive who has distilled decades of experience, from running budget hotels to managing boutique luxury properties, into a single, proven framework.

This book is essential for:

Entrepreneurs and investors entering hospitality for the first time. Existing owners seeking to strengthen governance, reduce risk, and grow margins. General Managers who want to align daily operations with long-term vision.

Complete with real-world case studies and the Hotel Owner's Toolkit, this handbook finally bridges the gap between inspiration and execution. It's your blueprint for building not just a hotel, but an enduring legacy.

By: Bruce Prins
Imprint: Bruce Prins
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 21mm
Weight: 549g
ISBN: 9798233984365
Pages: 412
Publication Date: 23 October 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Bruce Prins is an author and operational governance thinker whose work focuses on leadership under pressure, structural discipline, and founder-led organisational performance. With over three decades in hospitality and operational leadership across South Africa and Nigeria, he has worked inside complex, founder-led environments where performance is shaped as much by internal governance as by strategy. His writing explores emotional regulation as operational infrastructure, the psychology of authority, and the systems required for durable performance in high-responsibility settings. He is the author of various works on leadership and operational excellence.