Goweresque
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- Location
- North Wilts
If the hotel doesn't make anything out the fishing rights, they won't play any more.
They'll make money by selling more rooms, thats point of having the rights, to attract a certain customer who wouldn't come and stay at the hotel otherwise. And probably at times of year when tourists are thinner on the ground. Plus they'll charge the angler the market rate for angling per day.
Its like advertising - the hotel pays for that, and recoups its money by selling more rooms. Having some fishing rights to market isn't something the hotel should be making a profit on in and of themselves, its a marketing cost that they'll break even on over the season.
Imagine a hotel that is located next door to Alton Towers. It might buy tickets to the park and market packages for people to stay at the hotel over night. It pays full whack for the park tickets, and recoups them from the customer plus charges a profitable room rate. It doesn't say to Alton Towers 'Sell us entrance tickets at half price' does it? It might be able to negotiate a bit of a discount for bulk purchases, maybe 10-20% off if it was buying hundreds and hundreds of tickets up front, but it would never get a 50% discount.
The hotel is not the OP's only outlet, he can sell his rights to whoever he likes. He's doing them a favour by offering exclusive rights to them, not the other way around.