It seems to me that the "resort" trend is here as well. The rafting companies that where here when we opened five years ago where around 6-8 individual companies that offered from rafting to fishing. Well they all decided to get all together and pool all their revenues together to build more cabins, more restaurants, more attractions and more bars...did it hurt us...YES it hurt us immensly and until they become less "customer" oriented as they will because they look for the $$$$ and accept any and all guests they will eventually loose the guests that don't get the personal attention that they want. Thats where the B & B comes in, but can we survive until then?
Don't know, but these conglamorate companies take the little ones out much like the "walmart" stores do. Do we compete with them, you bet we do because they offer everything a guest could want in one place so they don't have to leave their property and spend all their $$ there and if the small business don't take up arms, they will win and the mom and pops will desapear...we hope not, we pray not, but so many B & B's compete with eachother here that we don't communicate with eachother and stand together to bring people to our places...each one of us are different in different places...why dont we use all this knowledge we have together?
Its hard to be a B & B when there are resorts around the corner, its a trend that will also work itself out--eventually..