The George Hotel's Prospects for the future

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

As Civil Architect for Sydney town, Greenway designed many Sydney buildings and monuments, some of which have become well known landmarks. Greenway’s projects that he completed wereincluded the lighthouse near South Head, the Female Factory, New Government House, the Supreme Court and many churches such as St James Church (as you can see in Figure 2). Greenway also introduced design elements that responded specifically to the harsh Australian conditions which were very different those in England. (Brash.N, 2008)

• Jobs in construction – up-dating port facilities, ship building and in the local area, for example building more shops and tourist attractions

At the same time this was happening, a handsome and wealthy young man, who went by the name H. H. Holmes, arrived in Chicago in 1886 searching for work as a doctor or pharmacist. He established his pharmacy, but later bought a small land across the street and built a construction that was perfect for his practice of disposing of the bodies he murdered. The first floor was for his pharmacy, along with retail shop fronts. The top two floors had apartments for rent with secret hallways and passages to the basement to make the disposal of bodies convenient. Holmes decided to turn his building into the World's Fair Hotel when he found out the Fair site was near him. The building underwent another construction project and he added a kiln in the basement

The Bellevue-Stratford hotel article discussed a case of sicknesses caused by Legionella bacteria. The doctors treating the people didn’t know what was the cause, but scientist collected samples from that patient’s lungs. Upon initial review, nothing conclusive was found from the lung samples, but months later a cluster of red rods was found that was overlooked the first time. This taught me that it is so, so import to double check your work and be thorough with your job. I also learned that air flows through a city differently than I thought. While reading the article, I understood that the disease wasn’t spreading but I kept wondering why if it was related to the air. It just seemed like it should spread. I learned that the bacteria were

In the novel The Hotel New Hampshire, John Irving sets the beginning of the story in 1955 where women are portrayed as innocent, vulnerable individuals suit for cleaning. As the Berry family is discussing how Mr. and Mrs. Berry met each other, John Berry, the narrator informs the audience of what his mother did as a job while working at a hotel, he states, “My mother was a chambermaid, although she dressed in her own clothes for serving dinner, and she helped serve cocktails under the tents to the lawn parties” (Irving, 5). It was common for women during the 1950s to be the one’s who clean wash clothes, and prepare dinner. Earlier, John mentions how education was also different for his mother, “My mother, who (being a girl) could never go to Dairy School, attended the private female seminary also in town” (6). Girls were not admitted into the school which John’s mother attended. The Dairy School, which is across from the family hotel had not yet accepted girls into the school, the time setting in the novel was now early nineteen fifties. While Chipper Dove is walking and steps in a pile of poop, he turns to another football player and demands that he cleans his shoe for him. The football player that was instructed to clean Dove’s shoe, Poindexter, shows resistant. Dove then rudely states to Poindexter,“‘They don’t have girls here yet, Poindexter,’ said the running back from Boston, ‘so there’s nobody but you to clean the shit off my shoes’” (51). It is clear to see that Dove’s words portray him as a person that believes girls are the one’s who are responsible for all of the dirty work, and the cleaning - of his nasty shoe.

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.

Hilton Hotel is founded by Conrad Hilton, they started their operation since 1919 and since then, they become one of the well-respected premier hospitality organizations with diverse employees worldwide. Currently, they have more than 4,600 owned and franchised hotels and resort chain in 100 countries. It has more than 200,000 rooms to accommodate guests from different parts of the world. It has more than 400,000 employees and team members to answers the needs of their guests (Hiltonhotelworldwide.com, 2016). In most of their branches their organizational structure is simple, with managers and supervisors from a different department, including admin, marketing, finance, human resource, concierge, food and beverages, housekeeping and etc.

Premier Inn is the name of a British Budget Hotel chain running the largest hotel brand in the United Kingdom. Hotel chain is running 690 hotels with more than 50,000 rooms built in different countries. The hotel chain listed in London Stock Exchange in 1987 with brand name of “Whitebread” and started trading of its services under the chain of “Travel Inn” in order to compete with travellodges. Business operation of Premier Inn is not only limited to city centers but also covering suburbs and airports locations Hotel chain is following the expansion and acquisition policies since the time of its inception and acquired hotel chain named as Premier Lodge in 2004 (Whitebread, 2013). This acquisition increased the number of hotels and the profit as well. Premier Lodge was running with 141 hotels and contributed 70% of the total profit of “Whitebread”. Target market of the hotel chain is not only the leisure visitors and families but also the world business class seeking countless business and travel facilities. Award winning business services, comfortable sleep on king size beds and delicious breakfast are further adding value for the hotel chain while elevating the status of Premier Inn to be the first choice of families and business class to take their stay decisions at Premier Inn. The ambitious and high paced profitable progress of the Hotel chain is opening new ways of expansion and development. The hotel chain is therefore, planning to increase around 45% i.e. 75,000 rooms

Vernacular building is a typology which results from a direct response to regional context (Murphy 2011). While contemporary Australian architecture

Cindy is the director of human resources. She has been a working member of the

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,

Recently purchased by a large American hotel chain, the Regency Grand hotel, located in Bangkok Thailand, is an example of prestige, with a 5-star rating. For the past 15

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."