A-The Hotel Paris’s History
The Hotel Paris International (Hotel Paris).Starting as a single hotel in a Paris outskirts in 1990.It growth up and now consists of a chain of nine hotels, with 2 in France, 1 each in London and Rome, and other 6 in New York, Miami, Washington, Chicago, and Los Angeles. As a corporate main strategy, the Hotel Paris’s management and owners plan to continue geographical expansion. They know that achieving this goal will let them capitalize on their reputation for good service by offering their customers multi-city alternatives. The management has a big problem which is that their reputation for good service has been declined. Without improving service to a specific level it would be unwise for them to expand geografically.The Strategy Top management, with all data from the human resource manager and other managers, and with the board of directors approval, authorize a new competitive strategy and formulates new strategic goals. Their decision is that the strategy will be: The Hotel Paris International will use superior guest services to differentiate the Hotel Paris properties, and to thereby increase the length of stays and the return rate of guests, as a result highly increase revenues and profitability.
The Hotel Paris’s HR director must now formulate strategies that support this competitive strategy by using the concepts and techniques of Human Resource Management to create a HR management system that helps the Hotel Paris achieve its
Europe is different from North America, and Paris is very different. I did not say difficult. I said different. — A senior Four Seasons manager In 2002, Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts was arguably the world’s leading operator of luxury hotels, managing 53 properties in 24 countries and delivering what observers called “consistently exceptional service.” For Four Seasons, that meant providing high-quality, truly personalized service to enable guests to maximize the value of their time, however the guest defined doing so. In 1999, Four Seasons opened the Four Seasons Hotel George V
In Bangkok, Thailand, a group of financial investors invested in a hotel called The Regency Grand Hotel. This hotel is the most cherished hotel in town, where the employees and guests enjoy spending time at this five-star hotel. This place hosts approximate 700 employees that give fantastic benefits, year-end bonuses and ensures job security.
Tourism is one of the most international industries. Globalisation is the gradual forging of links between groups and societies until they finally reach around the globe in several directions (Smith, D,2006). Globalization is one of the serious challenges facing managers today. It is critical to develop services that are able to satisfy a highly diverse customer base (Ueltschy et al., 2007) Now to keep up with the rising levels of globalization in the hotel industry, there’s a need to understand not only the positive, but also the negative impacts of globalisation. I’ll also talk about the growth and rise of one of the most respected brands in the hospitality industry - the Hilton Hotels. Throughout the evolution of this famous organization, the Hilton has
In the year 2000, The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company paired with luxury real estate developer Millennium Partners to build a $225 million hospitality complex in the heart of Washington DC. This 300-room hotel was set to be the first out of a six-hotel deal between these two companies. The structure of the deal was that Millennium Partners would be the owners of the properties and The Ritz-Carlton would manage them.
This paper describe Stamford Plaza Hotel Auckland. It is a five star hotel located in Auckland City center. Stamford Plaza as a multinational company owned by Stamford Land Corporation Limited, has strong market position in New Zealand and Australia. Its target market focus on luxury and top level travelers. By using effective 4P’s marketing instruments, Stamford Plaza Auckland attracts loyalty customers and develop new potential guests. We also use SWOT analysis to demonstrate the competitive advantages and disadvantages the hotel is facing with. Via analyzing threats and opportunities, we can give some recommendations on hotel market strategies. Finally, we get the conclusion on hotel outlook.
The Portman Hotel was built with the intent of being a 5 star hotel that provided superior service to its guests. This superior service centered around a business plan that was based on Asian standards of hospitality.
The main objective of the company is not only to attract but also to retain staff who are interested to work in the hotel business for the five-star level of high service, taking into account the wishes of clients, and which offers an innovative, dynamic environment and reflects the culture of the local country. To achieve this, Hyatt strives to be a company listening to well-informed and concerned people. Hyatt provides plenty of opportunities at all levels for their employees, which are accompanied by numerous development
This paper is designed for exploring the reasons for the success of Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts in Paris (Four Seasons). Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts is Canadian based international leading operator of midsized luxury hotels. Four Seasons has enabled guests to maximize the value of their time with providing high-quality and truly personalized service. Four Seasons was able to succeed with their unique strategy of dealing with cultural differences, unique corporate culture, and strategy of human
From the description of the case study, it seems that the reason lead the Portman Hotel to this terrible situation was that their HR policies were inconsistent with its strategies. The Portman Hotel's philosophy is that if they want their customers treated better, they must treat each other better. They also think the Portman Hotel is a place where they can make their employees feel satisfied with their jobs. Their jobs will be fun and they will fulfill their expectations. The employees will have the best work experiences. Besides, the Portman Hotel expects to be the best employer in San Francisco. They are willing to show their trust and pride in their employees. That's why the hotel considered their "associates" of the highest potential,
This report is going to present the importance of planning, recruitment and selection, training and development, reward management in the human resource management of hotel industry. For detailed consideration,
Ibis, the popular economy hotel chain, opened its first hotel in 1974, in the French town of Bordeaux. Since then, the company has expanded globally, reaching 40 countries worldwide, opening over 800 hotels. The majority of chains have been established in France, while the UK hosts over 50 chains, with further four hotel openings expected in December 2009. Recently, the chain has introduced a strategy to “promote the chain’s drive for ‘greater and greener customer comfort’”. (Mintel 2009)
Hotel Chain as showing to us practice is the most effective way of integration to hospitality business. The main advantage of such integration it is immediately creating customer base and bigger potential market of customers, cost reduction due to general management, logistics, marketing; common quality standards; centralized training and, as a consequence of all
In this case, Elite Hotel is planning to employs a total of 300 full-time staff across 7 departments for locals are cheaper than their foreign counterparts. It is good news to the hotel owners and also forces hotel management companies to think carefully when staffing a hotel. As Tim Williams (2013) addressed, "Do not hire expats as Resident Manager, Rooms or F&B Director unless you think they have the potential to push through to GM."
Hrm is the activity of managing a business that includes the human resource of a company. Hrm is a process which objective starts from identifying the need for human resource to amplifying the performance of the employees to achieve the goal of the company. InterContinental Hotels Group PLC is a large hospitality company and so the management of its human resource is very crucial for it to achieve their company’s goal. Through hrm, InterContinental Hotels Group PLC acquire, train, appraise and compensate their employees. Along with these, InterContinental Hotels Group PLC also attend to their employees labor relations, health and safety and fairness concern through
managers to France to lead the changeover of the new hotels. In this writing, regarding the Brunt