Budget & Management

If you have read a specification or a hotel business plan you will have come across two acronyms that keep […]

Redoing a hotel room bathroom costs between €7,000 and €20,000 in 2026, with the mid-range sitting between €10,000 and €15,000

In a hotel, 10% VAT on works doesn’t depend on how much they cost, it depends on how they’re classified:

In 2026 the main route for funding a hospitality property’s renovation in Italy is the non-repayable contribution introduced by the

Budget furniture for a B&B can be found through four channels: high-street retail, the second-hand market, hotel stock and entry-level

Furnishing a room with mass-market furniture costs roughly a third of an equivalent contract room, but that furniture needs replacing

In 2026 a complete double contract room, bathroom excluded, runs from €3,200 to €8,500 in Italy, but individual pieces are

Used hotel furniture costs 30 to 50% less than new contract furniture, and in batches from insolvency proceedings even 70%

A hotel in Italy pays tax at three levels. On revenue it applies 10 per cent reduced VAT on overnight

An Italian three-room B&B run by a family produces indicatively between 25,000 and 45,000 euros of gross revenue a year,

Renovating a hotel in Italy costs roughly 500 to 3,500 euros per square metre, depending on how deep the work

The tourist tax is a municipal levy that guests not resident in the municipality pay for each night spent in

To open a hotel in Italy you need three families of requirements: personal (the owner’s good standing), structural (a property

Yes, renovating a hotel’s furniture generally pays for itself: in most cases the investment is recovered within 3 to 5

An Italian 4-star hotel generates, roughly, €40,000 to €90,000 of revenue per room a year, with a national average ADR

The owner of a medium-sized Italian hotel, 30 to 50 rooms under direct management, takes home roughly €50,000 to €250,000

A night in an Italian hotel costs on average around €130-150 for a double room, but the range is enormous:

An interior designer in Italy costs roughly €50 to €150 an hour, or works on a fixed-fee basis: on average

Running a hotel in Italy costs, between fixed and variable expenses, 70-80% of revenue: a 30-room four-star hotel that takes

Opening a 4-star hotel in Italy costs, as a guideline, between €80,000 and €180,000 per room excluding the property: a

Furnishing a B&B costs roughly €3,500 to €12,000 per room, complete with textiles and lighting: around €3,500-6,000 for a basic

Furnishing an agriturismo costs, as a guideline, from €4,500 to €15,000 per room finished with textiles and lighting, plus €300-700

Of the three possible routes for furnishing or renewing a hospitality business, the real difference isn’t price: it’s who remains

Late December, a twenty-two-room hotel in a provincial town. Installation for the renewal wrapped up on the 18th, the rooms

Hotel furniture has two expiry dates. The first is technical, and it arrives when the piece stops working. The second

Between the 11am check-out and the 3pm check-in, many rooms sit empty. Not because there’s a shortage of people around

If you let one or more flats on Airbnb, Booking or any other platform in Italy, 2026 has rewritten the

Opening a B&B looks simple until you actually get into it. One extra room in the house, breakfast made in

Every year, thousands of hoteliers leave tens of thousands of euros on the table. Not for lack of ideas, not

Anyone looking for affordable hotel furniture has usually already run the numbers twice and found they don’t add up. The

Anyone searching “how much does it cost to furnish a hotel” often finds answers about how much it costs to

When a hotelier searches for “stock hotel bedroom furniture” they have a precise idea in mind: furnishing several rooms at

The moment of welcome is perhaps the most delicate part of the entire stay. In the first few moments a