The Warsaw Marriott Case

The Portman Hotel Company was a relatively small hotel with only 348 rooms and 21 floors located in San Francisco’s booming hotel district. It was influenced with Asian philosophy of services, to provide high quality hospitality to its guest at affordable rates. On paper, the hotel sounded like a great success, one that would definitely flourish amongst the competition. However, even with this philosophy, there were numerous problems that plagued the Portman Hotel. A few examples of these problems are the common mistake of fundamental attribution error (FAE), expectancy theory, as well as operant conditional theory. This essay will explain how these three things can potentially bring down an entire company very quickly.

Marriott is renowned for its elegant and comfortable hotels and resorts. The company caters to a targeted customer base, ranging from the frequent corporate business traveler to the family enjoying their occasional weekend get-away. Marriott has continued its rise in the lodging, contract services, and restaurant industries. The company continuously strives to meet the needs and wants of its customers while strategically maneuvering the rigors of today’s competitive and ever-evolving market of glamorous destinations and convenient services. In order to remain relevant in a highly-competitive environment, Marriott must strike that successful balance of minimizing costs, and gaining and effectively

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Since its foundation in 1927 Marriott Corporation grew into one of the leading lodging and food services in the US. With three major business lines: lodging, contract services and related business, Marriott has the intention to remain a premier growth company. To achieve this goal the corporation’s strategy is to develop aggressively appropriate opportunities within their business lines. Marriott would like to be the preferred employer, the preferred provider and the most profitable company in each of the operating areas. The financial strategy includes four key elements:

• What is the cost of capital for Marriott’s as a whole at the prevailing capital structure vs. at the target capital structure.

Finding Marriott’s WACC To calculate the WACC we need to identify the different factors included in the WACC-method, to be able to measure the opportunity cost for investments.

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,

Rusen hotels & Resorts are a type of industry focusing on hospitality and tourism owning up to 6300 guestrooms; more than any other privately held corporation in Central Florida. . There are seven quality properties evenly distributed in the Orlando market which are run and operated smoothly. Its success is due to the unwavering dedication of all the associates that are involved in the business. Its marketing strategies include selling the company's name to tour groups internationally to countries such as Brazil and South Korea (Mullaney 2014). The firm offers n additional information technology services, and these services are at a friendly price due to subsidiaries. The company provides insurance and risk management to its customers. All the seven properties are integrated and this maximizes operational effectiveness for the enterprise as well as the consumers.

The Hyatt Regency hotel was one of the deadliest hotel fails in the united states. The Hyatt hotel disaster was the most deadliest hotel fails in the world. Five to eight clock on July 17, 1981, it all started at the tea dance at this hotel. The Hyatt Regency hotel Kansas city held a dance on July 17, 1981.The fourth-floor bridge crushed into the second floor cause it could not holding people shaking and dancing of the people with the bridge flooring hitting 2,000 people 114 people dead and 200 injured when this event happen. The original building design was changed during construction. The building reopened the business in October 1981, just three months later.The Hyatt Regency hotel Kansas city held a dance on July 17, 1981.The fourth-floor bridge crushed into the second floor cause it could not holding people shaking and dancing of the people with the bridge flooring hitting 2,000 people 114 people dead and 200 injured when this event happen. The original building design was changed during construction. The building reopened business in October

A few departments in the hotel were leased for contract to individual contractors. There are four companies which is Silverboat Sdn .Bhd, Dynamic Professional Management Center Sdn .Bhd, Gardenview Oriental Cuisine Sdn .Bhd and Ethos Massive Sdn .Bhd.This four companies operating few departments separately in Syuen Hotel. Silverboat Sdn .Bhd is operating department such as sales and marketing, banquet, Chinese kitchen and artist ,Dynamic Professional Management Center Sdn .Bhd is operating departments such as human resource, accounts, purchasing and security, Gardenview Oriental Cuisine Sdn .Bhd is operating department such as main kitchen and coffee house and Ethos Massive Sdn .Bhd is operating department such as front office, concierge, housekeeping, information technology, lobby lounge,

HAYMARKET Hotel UK, offers an extensive choice of amenities and services, supported by their expert staff. There are services that have been maintained by management of the HAYMARKET hotel.

Inter Continental Hotels Group was established in 1777, is the world's largest and network distributed most widely professional hotel management group at present. It has many international well-known hotel brands and more than 60 years of international hotel management experience. At the same time Intercontinental Hotel Group is one of the world's largest room occupation (up to 650000), and its transnational operation range most widely distributed in nearly 100 countries.(Hickey, et al., 2014) This essay is an revenue analytic s and revenue management rvc by interviewing the CEO of the IHG.

The core nature of Tourism and Hospitality industry lies at the flexibility in the management of international element throughout its business. In this context of today business environment, the harsh competition witnessed in this industry has critically pointed out the importance of having managers that possess wide understanding and vision into the aspect of motivating the workforce coming from different backgrounds. This report aims to take an in-depth analysis into the cross-cultural leadership presented in the case of Hilton International to grasp a sense of the huge impact that effective communication of the organizational values can have on an international workforce. Hilton International – the giant player in the Hospitality world, has soared to spread its influence all over the world with a system of more than 380 hotels in up to 66 countries, serving an average of 8 million guests annually by more than 80,000 employees from different cultures (Datamonitor, 2004). The report will analyze this versatile characteristics present in the company in two distinctive aspects: personnel recruitment and corporate cultures in an international context

Hotel Clarion is private sector business associated with poviding tertiary sector hospitality services for profit. Clarion was established in the year 2002. It is a 3 star luxury hotel that is located in Kandy road, Kiribathgoda. With 32 functioning rooms, 3 halls, 3 clubs and a swimming pool they are the biggest and leading hospitality business in the area. They recently have also ventured into education with their new hospitality institute.

I choose to focus on Marriott International Hotels. This has always been my personal favorite chain of hotels to stay at. Marriott is a leading hospitality company with revenues of nearly $13 billion a year, a fortune 500 company, and over 4,000 properties in 78 countries. They have a majority of their properties in the United States and Europe, but also have properties in Africa, Asia, Australia, Canada, Caribbean, Central America, Mexico, Middle East, and South America. I will discuss this company’s strategic plan, policies and procedures, vision, and more.