Bed-and-breakfast inns come of age

The B&B segment is growing and as it grows its characteristics increasingly match those of the lodging industry as a whole, while more are being developed as properties that provide primary income to professional owner-operators.

Abstract

Long considered the province of hobbyists, bed-and-breakfast properties are increasingly operated by innkeeping professionals who make the business their primary focus and who have added a new wrinkle: full-scale restaurants