Hmmm,
Well I would think since most places charge a tax on staying in hotels,
maybe the lack of job creation would be offset by the tax revenue of the
"beloved" hotel tax . Adds to a counties tax base so the local government
has more money to waste.....you know how they like that!
Take TRI here at my home, the nearest hotel from the airport is a couple
of miles away at the I-81 interchange. Nothing is there at the airport! We
do have commercial traffic, but no we ain't O'Hare by a long shot! The
airport is doing pretty well at getting more routes from TRI , and would
like to expand further. What better selling point could the airport
authority make for getting more routes to fly here than having available
services for travelers,...not to mention their flight crews.
If you can offer them or some other place like it the chance for a
win/win situation you might be very amazed at how much "help" you can get. I
hate paying taxes, but I would rather see a small biz-man use the benefits
from it than some big company like WalMart or Proctor and Gamble that needs
"help" expanding like I need another hole in my head .
And since you won't be there all the time you actually may have to hire
more staff...even in Iowa

Patrick
student SP
aircraft structural mech

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:hB83f.431164$_o.164763@attbi_s71...

Great ideas, but buying a tired older hotel is always going to be cheaper
than building new. The trick is to find one that needs freshening up,
not demolition.

And anything we would do would be way too small for any government to be
interested in funding -- heck, our entire staff is just 5 people (plus
Mary and me). Not a big help to anyone's unemployment rolls.

I don't think we can provide the kind of service we do if we were build a
hotel much bigger. I think we could MAYBE handle 45 suites, total, at
the outside, and still do the delivered-to-the-suite breakfast thing.
Beyond that, we'd start slipping into "Holiday/Ramada/Super 8" status --
which would kill us.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"