Delivery of superior guest (customer) experience Drive growth up, enhance gross margins and profitabilityImprove experience of management and invest…
In a hypercompetitive environment, hoteliers must be innovative and flexible to adapt to new product and service demand in the marketplace. This is to ensure a better experience for the hotel guests (Jogaratnam & Ching-Yick Tse, 2006, p. 455). If Furlanis Hotels…
Hilton hotels are a company operating in the tourism industry. Hilton franchises the brand name to other smaller companies who operate the Hilton franchises. A flat organizational structure often identified in hotel franchises because of the small number of employees who report directly to hotel owners and managers. The few levels between employees and management creates a decentralized decision-making process. In this organizational structure, well-trained employees eliminate the micromanagement of supervisors. An innovation in the hotel tourism industry is hotel check-in from a smart phone. The flat organizational structure has proved useful for this innovation in areas of strategy, processes, and the product.…
Hospitality Technology (2004) Case Study: What Guests Want. Retrieved on November 9, 2004 from http://www.htmagazine.com/QSR_03/HT_QSR_03_7.html…
In the following paper, I will determine the challenges involved in managing restaurant operations that are specific to my state, as well as how I would address those challenges. Secondly, I will determine the impact of computerization on food service and lodging operations in my state. Next, I will analyze the interdependence of food service, lodging, and meeting segments of the hospitality industry and make two recommendations for how the synergy between the three sub-segments could be improved, using examples from my state to illustrate my case. In addition, I will consider how these segments can improve their relationships between one another and how they can combine their services in order to be more marketable in my home state. Finally, I will determine the likely consequences of the introduction of gaming entertainment into my state and the impact of significant economic expansion of the segment upon other segments of the hospitality industry.…
Saturation of the tourist accommodations. The rapid expansion of the tourism industry in the United Arab Emirates has increased the demand for construction of new hotel and resort accommodations. As a result of this growing popularity, one difficulty that may arise is an overwhelming increase of such facilities concentrated in the most prevalent tourist areas. The most popular tourist destination of the U.A.E. is Dubai, which is also known as the region’s commercial center. To highlight the recent influx of visitors to the area, approximately 2.8 million visitors travelled to Dubai in 2000, and approximately 6.3 million hotels guests were attracted to the area in 2008. There were 256 hotels available in 2000, and over 340 hotels operating as of 2008 (1). More facilities are required to accommodate the growing demands of increased tourist traffic, but how can these establishments attain success by expanding technological resources?…
ICT is now a prominent part of our daily life, within the tourism industry it is quickly becoming an important tool for a hotels organisation, it enables them to become competitive and is a good way of communicating with both consumers and partners. ICT is increasingly becoming a source that is enabling competitive advantage for the hospitality industry (Buhalis 2003, p.336). (See table 1). The introduction of ICT is especially…
This course explores the impact of information and communications technology on the structure and operations of the hospitality, travel, and tourism industry. It covers topics dealing with the interaction between consumers, intermediaries, operatives, and management through rapidly changing technologies. Effects on service quality, productivity, efficiency, and profitability will be examined.…
The internet is considered the biggest change in the hotel industry. It is transforming the way we offer services, reshaping organizational structures, and changing the relationship between our guests and us.…
Ordóñez, . P. P., Tennyson, R. D., & Zhao, J. (2012). Global hospitality and tourism management technologies. Hershey, PA: Business Science Reference.…
Ever year, the travel and tourism industry generates over one trillion dollars to the US economy. Lodging is the top contributing subsector in this industry. One specific leading global hospitality company is The Hampton Inn, owned by Hilton Worldwide. They operate over 3,900 hotels in 90 countries, and employ approximately 140,000 people (About Hilton, 2013). The ability of Hilton Worldwide to respond effectively and efficiently to the impact of their industry forces is a critical factor in determining their success. Hilton Worldwide is able to understand the effect of each of their industry forces by analyzing the level of rivalry among their competitors, the potential for entry into their industry, the power of customers, the power of suppliers, the threat of substitute service and the changes in demographics.…
In the hotel industry there is usually another hotel just around the corner. They appear in all price ranges, with varying levels of service and amenities. The constant challenge will always be to get the guest to choose your hotel over the competitor. The internet makes the overall market more efficient while expanding the size of the potential market and creating new substitution threats. Given the potency of this threat a superb internet presence is vital.…
The hotel Paris’s competitive strategy is “To use superior guest service to differentiate the Hotel Paris properties, and to thereby increase the length of stay and return rate of guests, and thus boost revenues and profitability”.…
• Capacity control. Refers to who will control the sale of inventories of hotel rooms, airline seats, auto rentals, and tickets to attractions. Presently, owners of these assets are in control of their sale and distribution, but increasingly control is falling into the hands of those who own and manage global reservation systems and/or negotiate for large buying groups. Factors involved in the outcome will be telecommunications, software, available satellite capacity, governmental regulations, limited capital, and the travel distribution network.…
‘Maybe we should start our own business.’ As soon as Paul said it, his two friends put down their coffee and stared at him. Paul Clermont, Sarah Odell and Christina Healy were second-year hotel and restaurant management degree students and they were looking over the business and travel news and lamenting the sluggish job outlook in their chosen field. They had always joked about starting a business together, but this time Paul was serious. With few prospects in the job advertisements, the three friends were worried that travel and entertainment wouldn’t pick up by the time they graduated. They’d begun their job searches in the autumn but weren’t interested in the available positions. So, like many other young people, they considered heading out on their own and becoming entrepreneurs.…