So I have some exciting news to share with everybody and this is for those that have been

part of Boosley and listening to Boosley for a long time now. You will know that in 2016

I created Boosley and I created the hospitality community. Well, we are coming up to the year

anniversary to when Boosley was, the idea was created. The idea was actually, by my wife,

named Boosley. It's short for Boos to hospitality and not a lot of people know that. And to celebrate

the five year anniversary of the name being created for Boosley, I am going to be hosting

a very special Zoom party. I was going to be giveaways. There's going to be prizes. We're

going to have some fun. We're going to all jump on a Zoom call. I've upgraded my membership

so we can get a good 1,000 people in the room. We can actually go up to 5,000 people because

I know that there's plenty of people who watch this podcast. I know there's plenty of

people who have been part of Boosley since the beginning and it'd be great just to get

everybody into room and show you what we've done over the last five years, how many hosts

we've held, but also show you what the next stage and the next plan is. I've been spending

a lot of time recently putting the plans in place, putting the structures in place and

I want to show everybody what those are because the whole reason why this was created was

purpose over profit. So the purpose is to help as many hosts as possible, increase their

direct bookings and cut down on the over alliance on the OTAs. My goal was to help 1,000,000 hosts

achieve it because the more hosts that increase their direct bookings, you cut down on your

commission rates that you have to pay to OTAs. Money that basically unnecessary leaves

your local town and support. Money that could be reinvested into your local town and areas

and businesses. I worked out in 2017 that my local hometown in the peak seasons were losing

hundreds of thousands of pounds in commission costs unnecessarily to the big guys. So this

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