Hey everybody and welcome to the Boostly podcast. This is the podcast that gives hosts the tick

tactics, the tools and the training and the most importantly, the confidence on how you and

the host can get more direct bookings. My name is Liam Carolyn and I'm Mark Simpson's co-host.

Today we are going to go and dive behind the host on the mini series on the Boostly podcast

and this is where we really dive into somebody else's business. This is successful and interesting

host and hospitality owners across the world and where we dive into a business and learn their

tricks and their tips and things that you may be able to take away an action within your business.

So today we're actually joined by Josh Goldstein. He's from Bunkhouse Worldwide and you can go and

check out his properties at BunkhouseWorldwide.com. So welcome along Josh. Thank you for joining us.

Thanks for having me. So let's get started. Obviously the word Bunkhouse,

I love and that sort of has loads of visuals of the type of places but first of all,

where does the name Bunkhouse come from? Where are your properties in the world and what does the

business look like? How many units and where? So Bunkhouse comes from, we actually have a cabin

in the Smoky Mountains and one of the rooms has two bunk beds and my kids, it's probably their

favorite cabin because they each get their own bunk bed even though they don't need it. They just

think it's fun. They could have one bed to play in, one bottom bed that they sleep in and it's

their own. They don't have to fight over it. They think it's amazing. In general, our family likes

to go on vacation on on vacations that are almost adventures and so we just try to make up these fun

even if it's just a little trip. It's an adventure for all of us and so my kids have embraced that.

They'll run out into the surrounding areas and just try to make forts and

you know just their imagination goes wild so it's fun. So I just feel like Bunkhouse evokes a

just sense of fun and adventure and that's kind of why we chose that. I love that and just so we know

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