Korea, officially known as the Republic of Korea is ideally located on the southern half of the Korean Peninsula. South Korea is also popularly known as the “Land of the Morning Calm”. It is the capital city of Seoul which is known as one of the largest international financial center in Asia. To cater to all your needs and make your stay a comfortable one, a large number of South Korea hotels are spread all over the city.

Regarded as one of the famous tourist destinations in Asia, South Korea offers a good number of hotels varying from budget hotels to luxury accommodations. Hotels in South Korea have three main categories that include Seoul Hotels, Jeju hotels and Busan Hotels.

Accommodation

If you are looking to spend less on accommodation, then budget hotels in South Korea are the best options. These South Korea Hotels provide all sorts of services and facilities at reasonable rate in order to make the guests spend a comfortable vacation. The discount hotels like Jeju Hiking Inn and Dawn Beach Hotel in Busan are among the widely preferred economy hotels.

While staying in the South Korea Hotels, you can check out a large number of tourist attractions like Anapji Pond, Andong Icheondong, Heoninneung Royal Tomb, Korean National Park, Ojukeon Residence, Korean Folk Village, Geumgwanchong Tomb and Goryeong Daegaya Historic Sites.

Luxury hotels in South Korea will make your stay extremely comfortable. Some of the significant deluxe hotels in South Korea include W Seoul Walkerhill, Fraser Suites, JW Marriott, Grand Hyatt, Lotte Hotel, Haevichi Resort, Westin Chosun Beach Busan, Paradise Busan and Royal Kingdom. The tastefully decorated and opulent rooms of the luxury hotels in South Korea are simply great. Each of the rooms are done up in neutral colors offering a warm and homely atmosphere.

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1. Set goals.

The number one business management tool you can use to better your business is goals.  Long term goals, short term goals and mid range goals too.  In fact, when you started your business, you wrote a business plan right?  Did your business plan include your goals?

Business goals can include anything from how much you want to gross this year to how many hours you want to work.  In fact, it’s a common business management goal to work as few hours as possible and make a substantial income.  It’s one of the reasons many people start an online business in the first place.

So what are your goals?  As you write down your goals, take the time to make sure they meet the following criteria.  Are your goals measurable?  It isn’t enough to make a goal that you want to make more money or you want to work less.  How will you know when you’ve achieved your goal?  Quantify your goals so they’re measurable and you know when you’ve achieved success.

Make your goals timely.  What is your deadline for your goal?  If you don’t have a deadline for your goal, they’ll slip away and never get accomplished.  A deadline makes you accountable for your goals.  Along with timely is the ability to make your goals attainable.  There’s nothing worse than setting a goal that is so beyond your reach you end up feeling defeated.  Create your goals wisely, establish a plan to achieve them and you’ll create a pattern of success that will expand beyond your business and into your personal life too.

 2. Set your business up the right way.

By setting your business up, we’re talking about both as an entity, LLC, sole proprietor, s corp. etc.., as well as setting it up separate from your personal life.  Get a separate business account.  Obtain a business address and phone number.  Separate and set up your business as an individual entity. This not only protects you legally it covers you with the government and tax system.

Take the time to meet with an accountant to get a best practices system established for accounting, this means all of your payables, receivables and taxes.  If you take these measures in the beginning, you’ll make your business life easier both day to day and in the long run.

3. Automate what you can.

The wonder of doing business online is that there are so many features and tasks you can automate.  Invoicing can be automated, shipping and fulfillment can be automated.  Email marketing can be automated, tracking your web statistics, advertising and even content distribution can all be automated.  Automate everything you can to enable yourself more free time to spend on tasks that generate profits or simply to give you more free time to enjoy your life.

4. Outsource well.

 Speaking of saving yourself time.  Outsourcing is a fantastic tool to give your business a step up and to give you a little less stress.  Many self-employed business owners, work somewhere between 40 and 80 hours a week.  It can be a lot of stress to own a business and handle every single task and responsibility.  That is just one reason to consider outsourcing – save your sanity and spend more time focusing on you and your family.

There are a number of tasks you may be considering outsourcing.  They generally fall into a few categories:

• Administrative tasks.  These are often time consuming tasks that do not have a high hourly value, yet they need to be accomplished to make your business run effectively and efficiently.

• Professional tasks.  These tasks often fall under the realm of copywriting, scripting, managing an affiliate program, marketing tasks and the like.  They are important to your bottom line, however they can be effectively handled by an outside professional at a nominal hourly value.

• Technical tasks.  These are tasks that may take you some time to learn how to do.  They often fall under the realm of creating software, databases, special web languages, and so on.  These are time stealers simply because of the time it would take for you to learn how to do these particular tasks.  Their hourly value can be quite high.  The impact on your bottom line varies from task to task.  If you’re creating a new web element, it may contribute directly to profits.

Take a look at your job description. What can you outsource to make your business run more efficiently?

5.  Tell people what you want, not how to do it – create systems and accountability.

Delegating responsibilities is good business.  Here are a few ideas on how to work with others for maximum results.

• Establish a system of communication that works for both you and your employee.  Use the system to include what you want accomplished and by when. Use the rules for goal setting; make the task measurable, timely, and attainable.

• Communicate the task clearly.  Make sure that all deadlines, resources, and task responsibilities are thoroughly communicated.  Ask your employee questions to make sure task is understood.  Once you assign the task, let it go.  When you let go, you can focus on tasks required to grow your business and improve profits.

• Upon completion of the task provide feedback to your employee.  If constructive criticism is required, sandwich it between positive feedback for best results and to ensure a quality working relationship.  6.  Business plans and budgets.

It is a good business practice to have a business budget built right into your business plan. This is particularly important if you plan on seeking financing for your business.   Having an accurate and realistic budget will enable you to make educated spending decisions.

When creating a business budget your first step is often to determine your expenses.  Your expenses include operating costs, taxes, the costs of outsourcing, marketing, publicity and so on.  Make a list of all categories you anticipate having costs and all areas where you already know your expenses.

A budget is not a money diet, it is a spending plan and this is particularly important when it comes to your business.  You want to make sure you have enough money to pay your bills and grow your business.  Track your expenses and income and review your budget often.  If you find you’re spending more in one category, make the adjustments in your budget.

When it comes to owning and operating a business, a few good business management practices can go a long way.  Take the time to organize your life, outsource and automate what you can, establish processes to communicate your needs clearly, and structure your planning and spending in a way that makes sense for you.

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More than forty years after the building of a skyscraper hotel in one of the world’s capitals comes a novel about hotel living: “The Dream of the Decade – The London Novels” by Afshin Rattansi, former BBC Today Programme Producer.

The location of novel is the London Hilton skyscraper in Park Lane, finished in 1963 and designed by William B. Tabler Architects. The protagonist, a 1980s working-class-man made-good is a millionaire – but what about others who have chosen to live in hotels instead of buying property?

In New York: The Carlyle – “Though hotel residents come in varied shapes, sizes and ages, the population tends to skew older and toward a high tax bracket, said Marcie Lieberman, hotel manager at The Carlyle. “It’s usually an upper-echelon person. People who have gotten used to a certain convenience and who like living in an environment where those things are available,” she said.

Combine that with the right amount of pampering, and you’ve got the answer to a hotel dweller’s prayers – all ending in amenity. The Ritz-Carlton on Central Park South, for example, offers inclusive and a la carte services for any situation from wanting a massage to needing diamonds at a moment’s notice.” (Daniel Bubbeo, Newsday)

In London: “John Petch, sales director of boutique hotel group, GLA Hotels (owners of the Lancaster in Paris and the Cadogan Hotel in London) began his career with the Savoy group in the early 1980s. Back then, the fifth floor at Claridges was reserved for long-term guests. But by the early 1990s, he says, hotel residency was dying out. Even the wealthy regarded long stays as uneconomical and turned their attention to affordable second-home investment opportunities.

But the tide is turning; both the Lancaster and Cadogan have three long-stay residents who use the hotels as their city bases. “People are moving back into hotels because of the security and service,” says Petch. Boutique hotels also excel at providing a home- from-home atmosphere backed up with personalised service. “If you have a flat, you might have one person to look after you,” he says. “Here you have all of our staff on call.”" (Tracy Hoffman, Financial Times)

Hotel-living Names:
Geri Halliwell – The Lanesborough, London
Bobby Hashemi, founder of Coffee Republic – Claridge’s, London
Ruud Gullit – Malmaison, London
Chris Evans – Langham Hilton, London
Richard Harris – Savoy, London
Rupert Murdoch’s courtship with Wendi Deng – The Mercer Hotel, New York
Ken Hom – The Dorchester, London
Peter Sellers and Britt Ekland; Richard Burton and Liz Taylor – The Dorchester, London.
Coco Chanel – Ritz, Paris
Marlene Dietrich – Hotel Lancaster, Paris
Greta Garbo, – Fairmont Miramar, Los Angeles
Howard Hughes – Desert Inn, Las Vegas
Salvador Dali – Hotel Meurice, Paris
Peter Bogdanovich – Stanhope Hotel, New York
Claude Monet – Savoy, London
Cate Blanchett – Covent Garden Hotel, London
Christina Ricci – Covent Garden Hotel, London
Diane Von Furstenberg – Carlyle, New York
Frank Sinatra – The Waldorf Towers, New York
Cole Porter – The Waldorf Towers, New York
Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald – Lowell Hotel, New York
Madonna – Carlyle, New York
Madonna – Home House, London
William Burroughs – Beat Hotel, Paris
William Burroughs – Chelsea Hotel, New York
Sid Vicious – Chelsea Hotel, New York
Dylan Thomas – Chelsea Hotel, New York
Arthur C Clarke – Chelsea Hotel, New York
Bob Dylan – Chelsea Hotel, New York
Tim Burton – Portobello Hotel, London
Francis Ford Coppola – Portobello Hotel, London
John Lennon – Hilton, Amsterdam

The title novel in the quartet, The Dream of the Decade, may end in disquieting circumstances but one only has to look at the tragedies of the famous who have died in hotels to know it isn’t uncommon. ends

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