Welcome to season 4 boost hospitality podcast

and back again to show all hospitality owners

how you can turn lookers into bookers,

get more heads on beds and increase your direct booking.

This season I've got something very special lined up. The

bootlely website was recently voted one of the top 10 UK hotel blogs out there.

After asking you guys, I realized that so many of you haven't actually

read the blogs. You said that you prefer audio as a way of learning about new tactics and tips to get in more direct

bookings. So what I'm doing this season is I'm going to be providing the audio

version of all of my blogs that are on the Boostley website.

So it doesn't matter whether you're on the computer, in the car,

getting ready for breakfast or changing those beds, I can show you how you can increase your diary bookings. Let's get on with

this show. Okay so today I'm going to share the simplified version of what GDPR

means for hospitality owners. If you want to go and read the full blog about this

which I do recommend you do, go to bootle.co.k.

and in the search bar look for simple meaning of GDPR.

Okay, so what is GDPR?

Wikipedia told me that it's the general data protection regulation.

It is a regulation by which the European Parliament,

the Council of the European Commission

intend to strengthen and unify data protection for all individuals within the European Union.

If you're lost, so am I. So what I went, wanted to do is I wanted to go out and I wanted to research exactly what it would,

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