Homestays – A way to welcome guests

Spare rooms? Your spare income has a name: Homestay!

We have seen how the idea of living in homestays has been growing of late. Following the rapid spread of Covid-19, our lives have turned upside down. Innumerable people have lost their jobs or had to take huge pay cuts during the pandemic. So, it has become more important today to have a second steady source of income. If you own a home and have rooms to spare, it can help you start a homestay business that can easily supplement the by-now-uncertain income that will allow you to pay your EMIs and other loans without heartache.

You may think that people are not going on vacations much these days. Partly true! But people don’t need rooms only to holiday in. People also require rooms for other reasons, such as work from homestay—such people who travel on business, relocate to new cities or seek lodging for studying out of town.

Of course, there are those who are still going on holiday with their loved ones. And people nowadays mostly prefer family homestays over hotels and villas as they feel homestays are safer, cozier, cheaper, and more personalized.

All you need to start a great homestay as a host is to have the will to guide and entertain people coming to your city from other parts of the country—or abroad—with some clean, spare rooms and a wish to cook delicious cuisines for your guests. If you do not have the time to cook, you can even provide your guests with a well-equipped kitchen/kitchenette so they can cook for themselves.

You do not have to spend much, to begin with. You just have to remember whom you want to rent out your rooms to and furnish them tastefully. For instance, if you want people to use the space for work from the homestay, you will need to provide proper reading lights, a writing table and a comfy chair and, preferably, a good Wi-Fi connection, besides a Bed and Breakfast (BnB) space with AC, TV, bedrolls, towels and so on.

But, if you want to turn your accommodation into a good nearby homestay located close to a hill town, a sea beach, or a heritage spot, all you have to provide are the basic amenities for a feel-at-home night stay, while keeping your room/s clean and sanitized at all times.

You can rent out your serviced apartment according to your preference—on weekends, or for short- and even long-term periods, and can start a homestay in a big, or small, city.

Join us

It would be easier for you to run the business if you partner with a platform like Eden Homestay. We can guide and help you to set up one of the best homestays in India. Come and join us and become a part of our Homestay in Hyderabad, or a Homestay in Bangalore, or maybe a Homestay in Chennai, or any other city—maybe Munnar, Trivandrum, or Vizag, among other cities.