Reflection On Hospitality Management

Strategic management is the art and science of formulating, implementing and evaluating cross-functional decisions that will enable an organization to achieve its objectives. It involves the systematic identification of the firm 's objectives, nurturing policies and strategies to achieve these objectives, and acquiring and making available these resources to implement the policies and strategies to achieve the firm 's objectives. Strategic management, therefore, integrates the activities of the various functional sectors of a business, such as marketing, sales and production to achieve organisational goals. It is the highest level of managerial activity, usually

The internship, even though it includes actual operation of the facilities of the employer, is similar to training which would be given in an educational environment;

This assignment will be a critical review of a journal titled: “Do your internal branding efforts measure up? Consumers’ response to brand supporting behaviours of hospitality employees". In order to critically review this journal, the text will be analysed to gain a further understanding of the purpose of the article, what methods the author has used to address the issues, the outcomes of the research and finally the strengths and limitations of the article; specifically, in comparison to other articles that are centred around the topic of branding in regards to the hospitality industry.

"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one." Education is not preparation for life, it’s life itself! My educational goal is to major in Travel and Tourism. I plan to attend Broward College for a year to complete the prerequisite courses every incoming student must take. Then, I plan to transfer to Florida International University and take part in the most competitive hospitality school at FIU’s Miami Chaplin campus for three years. The Chaplin School of Hospitality and Tourism Management offers Bachelor and Master degrees with certificate programs in various hospitality specializations and Minors. Each student must start off by taking Introduction to Hospitality and Tourism Management. This course introduces the branch

I interned at Orange Lake Resort, a Holiday Inn property with over 5,000 available rooms for rent catering to a wide variety of guests ranging from rentals, timeshare owners, and marketing to name a few. Throughout my internship I’ve not only grown into a more competent employee but as into an industry professional as well.

Operations management concerns with managing of resources that directly produce the organization’s service or product. These resources are brought together by a series of processes so that they are utilized to deliver the primary service or product of the organization. Thus, operations is concerned with managing resources through transformation processes to deliver service or products. (Rowbotham, Galloway and Azhashemi, 2007) Since the mid-1980s, the rate of growth of major service sector categories as hospitality services, has been approximately double that of other industries (Daley et al., 1998). Due to the unique characteristics of service operations, such as heterogeneity, inseparability,

Hotel Management is such a core and foremost part of international global business related to hospitality industry which provides world-wide opportunity for different fields of jobs. I decided that hospitality management program is such a turning point for me to do better in future career prospects. Hospitality management course is a proper platform for students to develop their personal confidence and development of enthusiasm.

The Hotel is situated in the bustling East Cork market town of Midleton, located just 14 miles (15 mins drive)

With globalization and increasing interconnectedness between countries, today’s organizations operate in a rapidly changing environment which is fraught with complexity and uncertainty. Factors such as increasing diversity among culture, people and nations is impacting global organizations.

Before we begin our career, especially in Hospitality Industry, we need to know skills, competencies and even weaknesses. This individual essay assessment, that given by Business Industry Training Team, can use as a tool to know individual reflection about our skills, weaknesses that need to develop or even goals in the form of a Pre-Development Plan which will be useful during our internship and future career. This assessment will explain about my goals, strengths and development areas, competencies and what action I need to take.

The Food & Beverage jobs vary from location to location but can range anywhere from an entry level to an executive level. Depending on the position in Banquets, Catering, or Convention Services, Hilton offers top-notch job training, leadership skills, and support. The Hilton’s values as a company are in its name itself. They are hospitality, for giving the guests an extraordinary experience, integrity by doing the right thing, all the time, leadership to be leaders in the hospitality industry, teamwork by working together as one big team, ownership by owning up to our decisions and actions we make, and now by operating with discipline and urgency. It is critical for employees of Hilton Worldwide to have all of the skills to do their jobs effectively while gaining knowledge and learning experiences to a successful team member. Hilton Worldwide also has extensive training virtually in the Hilton Worldwide University and has offers over 2,500 different

As a student, technology is an excellent source of information. This research gives us knowledge about the advantages and disadvantages of technology in hospitality management, this helps me in my other subjects especially I’m a student of Hospitality Management course. I learned from my research that technology doesn’t always have positive effect but it also have it’s negative effects, technology is suitable for hospitality management because it is the easiest way to socialize through internet. I think this will further enhance the hospitality management few years from now.

Therefore, in my programme we are required to do an internship every year. This gave me opportunities to work in a hotel for 4 times in different department which are Housekeeping, Kitchen & Pastry and Sales & Marketing.

(a) make sure that the way he manages the hotel is appropriate to the way it competes for business;

1.)I have been working since I was about 17, and as of now I have held multiple different positions, in various institutions. Each of these positions required a different set of skills and attributes, nevertheless they all required the same dedication and focus. I have always been one to show up and complete with my daily tasks, however there is a specific situation that I recall that required me to step up and do more than I was required to.