Airbnb to Target Popular Wedding Venue Area

[Brad Johnson]

In trying to get creative in this market, I've been looking for mountainy locations with many nearby wedding venues with the idea to Airbnb a nice home nearby. Then, we'd work with the wedding venues to be an offering for weddings. I found a location with $300-400k log cabins in an area with 4-5 pretty nice wedding venues nearby. These venues claim to do 50-100 weddings annually, so I'm optimistic we could see solid occupancy if we are a listed partner. I also made sure they don't currently offer their own lodging onsite, and the nearest lodging offerings are hotels further away than the prospective Airbnb I found, so these venues are actually eager to have an option like one we'd provide. Ideally, the wedding party or other VIP's would use our Airbnb house as it would be more convenient/nicer than hotels further away.

The location doesn't have many Airbnbs, VRBO's and isn't a vacation spot by any means. But it does have a possibly untapped wedding venue market.

Anybody do something like this? Anything to watch out for? It's tough becuase you can only do so much market research on this.