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The next innkeeping seminar for prospective and new innkeepers will be from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, £eb. 9. The cost is $100 per person or $150 per couple and includes luncheon and a “backstage” tour.
“It gives students a marvelous idea of whether their fantasy is viable,” said Mrs. Cartwright-Brown. Many guests admire the lifestyle of the Cartwright-Browns and the seminar gives them the nuts and bolts perspective.
One of the biggest dangers facing all innkeepers is burnout, which is why The Conyers House offers its innkeeping seminar only on an annual basis. It was too taxing, they found, to continue giving five or six seminars each year as they had done in 1987.
For the first seven years Mrs. Cartwright-Brown managed The Conyers House alone as her husband continued to commute to the city. Her recipe for avoiding burnout, caused by the constant repetition of the work, is to “hire help for anything possible. The housekeeping, cooking, horse care, bookkeeping, taxes, etc. are all done by others.”
It leaves her with all issues involving decisions: contracting, public relations, sales, purchasing, reservations. They enjoy sharing the hospitality duties: greeting guests, showing rooms, serving afternoon refreshments. They also join the guests for the first course of dinner each night. Mr. CartwrightBrown now works for The Conyers House 90 percent of his time and manages all maintenance of the houses, vehicles and animals.
At the seminars, students love hearing what his work entails. The other 10 percent of Mr. CartwrightBrown’s work involves consulting, which is a welcome change from the repetition of maintenance.
“I’m presently purchasing a 1,000 horsepower tugboat,” says he with a grin, “which is more fun than frozen pipes.” Restoring old cars is
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