Introduction This report focuses on the relevance of revenue management to operations and room division operations management. The relevant legislations and regulations required in room division operations management will be analysed. Further the roles and responsibilities of some accommodation and reception staff will be reviewed. The report will also concentrate on the services offered by rooms division in relation to accommodation and front office departments.
Since the report concentrates on the services offered by both accommodation services and front office departments there is the need to give a brief explanation of what accommodation and front office mean.
Accommodation
Accommodation is a place that offers sleeping facilities for travellers. It is also a place where work related or leisure activities can be done by people. Accommodation can be found in hotels, hospitals, resorts, hostels and so on. The accommodation service is an important aspect of the hospitality industry in view of the fact the provision of accommodation, food and beverage is important for those people spending time away from home.
Front-Office
The front office also known as the reception is where visitors arrive and encounter a staff at a place of business. Front office staff are those in contact with customers. In the hospitality industry, this department directly generates revenue for their organisation. There are front office in several organisations like banks, hotels, hostels,
The provision and use of personal protective equipment could include using gloves, glasses, earmuffs, aprons, safety footwear, dust masks.
The process outlined by Mr. James reflects a growing practice today. I was not surprised by the charge given us. Companies in the hotel industry are looking for and expecting a documented favorable financial return on their expenditures. Admittedly, sales and marketing has lagged behind other functions, such as lodging operations, in showing measurable profit results from its efforts. The new planning and budgeting process will be a challenge because it is “bottom-up” and profit driven rather than “top-down” and revenue driven. But it is a worthwhile undertaking to achieve profitability within two years. I hope the planning and budgeting process doesn’t turn into a cost-cutting exercise.
his case article summarizes two case series. Each case series includes three subcases and has an associated teaching note. These six short cases introduce many of the concepts that underlie the practice of airline revenue
Abstract This article makes some predictions about the future by considering operational issues in the "rst part of the next century. Hospitality operations management is considered at two levels * the "rm level at which strategic operations management takes place; and the unit level. It is proposed, using a model developed by Jones (1999, International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality management), there are seven strategic concerns: location, integration, a$liation, con"guration, organisation, implementation and adaptation.
On June 24, 2010, the FASB and the IASB published for public comment an exposure draft, which was open for public comment through October 22, 2010. The key concept was about revenue from contracts with customers, except for financial instrument contracts, insurance contracts, leasing contracts, nonmonetary exchanges contracts. There are approximately 1,000 comment letters was received. Find one comment letter on the FASB website that raises questions about the proposed new standard and briefly explain the issue. The core principle of the proposed standard on revenue recognition is that a business entity should recognize revenue for goods and services such that the amount reflects the consideration that the business entity receives, or
3.1 What are the role of technology and the role of operations staff in delivering an appropriate level of service for each hotel?
Our thirty-second commercial will run on the Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation. This station has the highest viewership. The commercial will feature the Soy Bear mascot. The mascot will run around urban centers, being chased by some youth and young adults. The commercial will show them all laughing and enjoying catching the Soy Bear mascot. Once caught, Soy Bear will bring the chasers back to one of our stores and hand out our ice cream. This advertisement will show our company's sense of fun, the store’s social area and promote an active, healthy lifestyle.
Operations management observes the function of providing the product or service. It’s a focus that’s impossible to let go in operations management. There are two very important yet very obvious things under operations management and they are providing the product or service and to of course go ahead and sell the product or service. In order for a firm to ensure that it has the capabilities to produce its products, the supply chain, raw materials, and where to produce the products should be considered. There are six key factors to be followed and five important process choices to be mentioned. The factors are operations at low cost, the design at a high performance, reliable value, fast delivery time, development speed, and product customization. The process choices are project, job shop, the flow in regards to batch, flow in regards to line, and of course the flow in regards to continuous.
1. What was the Kanthal president, Ridderstråle, attempting to accomplish with the Account Management System? Are these sensible goals?
Hospitality is the relationship between the guest and the host, or the act or practice of being hospitable. Specifically, this includes the reception and entertainment of guests, visitors, or strangers. Hospitality industry includes hotels, travel & tourism, health clinic, spa, amusement parks and many more.
1).The relationship between Hospitality and Tourism: Tourism and hospitality go hand in hand, the hospitality industry offer services like accommodation, transportation, food and beverage, recreation and leisure. Tourism is the activity by the tourists where they engage in travelling to destinations where they want to experience recreational and leisure activities and most of the time avails of accommodation, food and beverage. The hospitality industry is the supplier of the services for tourism. The meaning of hospitality is providing a safe and enjoyable environment for patrons. It also means responsibly serving liquor, to ensure that patrons do not become unduly intoxicated and subsequently a problem for management, staff and the
Front Desk whereby staff in the front desk is the receptionist is in charge of guest check, hotel status, credit management, guest folios, client’s account, guest checkout. The front desk has to build a relationship and make the guest feel comfortable. By doing this, it creates a friendly atmosphere for the guest and gives the advantage for a better sale.
There are some common characteristics of the service products which can be described as intangibility, inseparability, variability, perishablity and the inability ( Kandampully,Z et al:2000;Palmer, A:1994; Rust et al:1996)). In addition, Zeithaml& Bitner(1996) indicates that fluctuating demand should be considered in hospitality industry. Additionally, Lee- Ross and Johns (1997) claims that yield management could be used to assist the service organization to maximize revenue when the demand is fluctuating and product is perishable. Thus, due to the perishablity of the service products fluctuating demand, the hoteliers could apply yield management system in order to maximize the revenue.
What is Hospitality industry and Tourism Industry. Hospitality industryto the connec:tion between a v:isitor and a host, wherein the host gets the visitor with goodwill, including the gathering and stimulation of visitors, guests, or outsiders.But Hospitality Industry is a general class of field inside service industry. Example like serves, food and beverage send the food to the customer. Housekeepers, help the customer to sort out the room every day. Marketing is the work like made promotion at different season to attract customer to stay at their hotel. Like low season, hotel normally will make discount or half price. After that, Tourism Industry
Service is the most important aspect when it comes to handling a hotel. A hotel’s main objective is to provide the best service and tend to all of the guests’ needs and requirements. If there is no service then there would be no business. When running a business, the costumer is always placed first. Poor services can results in a complaint from a guest. But that complaint can be used to better the business in the future.