- Stop believing what the specialized press tells: you can’t make a living with a gite or bed and breakfast. Know that it asks time, personal investment. Always providea warm welcome
- If you’re enticed by the earnings, you’d better abstain
- Provide a very high level, of comfort, presentation, kindness, etc.
- To reckon the cost of one’s investment, not contenting oneself with promises; to know well the touristic potential of its sector;  to make an intelligent advertising; verify that the sector is not saturated in accommodations; to know that it will be necessary to be available, always in a good mood; to have no sensitive skin when chronic dissatisfied will come to demolish with enjoyment what you built very carefully.
- Know that it is necessary to  listen to the customers, being available. It is not because it’s summer that we are on holidays. But if we like it that, it’s really great.
- Expect to work hard for few money!
- To like receiving customers, but especially, the service implies sometimes boring or thankless tasks. (Ex: cleaning especially in the case of tactless customers).
- Assess existing structures on one’s municipality, geographical sector …
- Make a market study beforehand … Do not forget that gite or bed and breakfast these last years have enjoyed an exponential development …
- To look at the surroundings, at those who are already settled and to meet them.
- Open-mindedness and availability
-  Know for what we expect from the activity. Contacts, valuation of  the earnings; especially in the bed and breakfast activity the investment of the person is enormous.
- Do not think that we can " make a living on it ", unless you run 5 gites  and 3 bed and breakfast, and you fill them up amways!
- Attention to logistics and equipments. You’d better have a kitchen, I lack one.
- Like the contact and be very patient
- Do not count one’s time, forget the hope to earn a fortune
- Find a theme, stage the history of your places "to charm" customers; work on the image of gite or bed and breakfast according to that. Importance of photos!!!
- There are too many gites or bed and breakfast n our corner,we ought to dissuade people from creating it in Vendee.

There is a saying: "An informed man, is a half-rescued man". The other half is on you.