By the end of the workshop you’ll be able to:

1. Finalise a location and open a homestay
2. Remodel your homestay according to your vision
3. Build a team that can help your homestay grow
4. Promote and market your homestay
5. Identify growth opportunities while making a profit

The tropical state of Goa has always been on the tourist map and has now opened its doors for entrepreneurs. If you have wanted to open your own homestay and host people from across the world, now is a good opportunity. Mavrick takes you through different phases of starting, building and growing a homestay. Here’s what you will learn:

• Understanding Goa
  – Identifying the different parts of Goa
  – Understanding the kind of tourists 
  – Listing the type of homestays

• Choosing a property for your homestay
  – Location, location, location
  – Understanding lease agreements
  – Taking required permissions
  – Fixing the layout
  – Working according to tourist cycles

• Renovating and remodelling
  – Planning the remodel of your homestay
  – Working with locals
  – Figuring out the layout
  – Selecting labour and suppliers
  – Negotiating costs

• Creating a working business model
  – Executing low cost marketing and promotions
  – Managing finances

• Breaking down the costs: capital and operating expenses

• Question and answers

Meet your host:

Mavrick Cardoz is the owner of the lovely Casa Galgibaga in Canacona in South Goa.

After travelling across 11 countries, staying in more than 100 hotels and working with a travel agency in Europe, he realised that his true calling was channelling his learnings towards a venture in his own homeland. This is when he remembered Galgibaga village, where he spent a lot of vacations during his childhood. And thus was born his labour of love, Casa Galgibaga. This workshop is an attempt for him to inspire fellow entrepreneurs. 

Check out the homestay on Instagram under the handle ‘casagalgibaga’.