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Lodging Operations 101
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What is the industry term for an organization that provides travel booking services on the internet
Identifying guests needs and wants
OTA
The specific brands of products served and serving hours
Empowerment
2. With 200 occupied rooms and breakfast costs of $450 - what would be a hotels breakfast cost per occupied room?
Their price per unit declines
Personality type
$2.20
$2.25
3. In which type of booking model are room rates not seen by guests until after they have successfully 'bid' for a room
To help keep workers safe
It is a reception that includes the services of complimentary food and/or beverages
Opaque rate model
Effectively answer open-ended questions about hypothetical service situations
4. Which of the following is most essential to providing good service
A hotels occupancy tax
It is vacant and not yet cleaned
A la carte
Identifying guests needs and wants
5. What is a normal par level in hotel laundry
3 times the normal usage
Line level employees
ADR x Occupancy Rate= RevPar
A web site that allows a hotel's guests to post reviews of their previous stays
6. What is the travel industry term used to describe a group of travel services - such as hotel rooms - meals - and airfare - sold for one price
An outside vendor
Franchisor
Make or buy items
Package
7. What is true about food served in the traditional french style
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8. What is the advantage of a CFL
Do not clean this room now
$1.38
Reduced operational costs
A college graduation weekend occurring near a hotel
9. What is true about the cost of providing room service meals
Comp set
They are individual travelers
Merchant model
The cost is higher than that of dining room service
10. A CVB is typically funded by what
$2.20
A hotels occupancy tax
It has been intentionally left behind
Night auditor
11. What is a common job title for the individual Who has regular on-site interaction with a franchised hotel
Franchise service director
The number of hotel rooms sold the previous night
Publicity is free
By associating performance in providing guest service with employee compensation
12. What is true about a hosted bar
Empowerment
French
2-4% gross revenue
The host pays for the beverages cosumed by guests
13. In the small town of someko - michigan there are 5 hotels with a combined total of 650 sleeping rooms. during june an avg. of 400 of those rooms were sold each day - generating $29 -200 in room sales. What was the average daily rate (ADR) of the town
Marketing activity
$73.00
Licensing
Air handlers
14. Which group of housekeeping employees should receive blood born pathogen training
Room rates and the number of operating hotel properties will increase
Sorting/washing/drying
All housekeeping employees
Upon receiving
15. What is the purpose of cold calling
Empowerment
Opaque rate model
To qualify prospects
Package
16. When the entire staff of a hotel consistenly fail to deliver quality service to guests - the problem is most likely that
They are not being supervised with a service emphasis
Include bath towels - hand towels - and washclothes
Franchise
Value
17. Suppose its monday morning. what should a hotel's breakfast attendant begin to remove complimentary breakfast items from the hotel's breakfast serving area
2-4% gross revenue
250
Incandescent bulb
At the advertised ending time
18. For food service buyers when does the ownership exchange of products the have purchased actually take place
Management contract
Upon receiving
It is increasingly viewed by guests a a sign of commitment to quality service
The investor seeks a return on investment (ROI)
19. from what language does the kitchen term 'mise en place' originate
The investor seeks a return on investment (ROI)
Illumination levels
Marketing activity
French
20. What is the name for the difference between the original number of room requested by a group and that group's lower than requested actual room pick up
Attrition
The ratio of different room types in a hotel
Waste disposal costs
The food and beverage services offered by the hotel
21. In a hotel dining room with a total revenue of $1 -150 and 85 guests served what would be the hotels check average
Maintenance request
$13.53
The specific brands of products served and serving hours
They are not being supervised with a service emphasis
22. What happens to a hotel's POM costs as a hotel ages
Costs increase
It is designed to meet the hotel's sales goal
Older travelers
3 times the normal usage
23. Which method would be least effective for determining guests' needs and wants
Contribution margin
Waiting for guests to approach staff with specific problems
Illumination levels
Include bath towels - hand towels - and washclothes
24. Which of the following is essential if employees are to effectively resolve guest problems as they occur
The authority to make key decisions
Group market
Empowerment
The number of hotel rooms sold the previous night
25. What is true about an investor in a hotel
An outside vendor
The hotel's executive housekeeper in keeping with the hotel policies and procedures
Make or buy items
The investor seeks a return on investment (ROI)
26. What is a REIT
A stock issuing company that can own and operate its own hotels
The hotels general manager
Independent
The food and beverage services offered by the hotel
27. To whom does the sous chef in a large hotel report
OTA
Management contract
Night auditor
Executive chef
28. Which group is more likely to use the services of a travel agent
Reduced operational costs
Franchisors sales and marketing efforts
Marketing activity
Older travelers
29. Which is an example of a branded breakfast item
Kellogg cereal
Do not clean this room now
It is a reception that includes the services of complimentary food and/or beverages
It is vacant and not yet cleaned
30. What name is used to describe a group of competing hotels to which an individual hotel's operating performance is compared
Waste disposal costs
Comp set
A la carte
Profits are higher with banquet sales
31. In a full service hotel What is true abouth the profitability of banquet food sales compared to that of dining room sales?
The person in charge of the hotel's maintenances department
A reunion held for veterans of the vietnam war
25 or fewer
Profits are higher with banquet sales
32. what would the occupancy rate for a hotel that has 200 rooms on a day in January In which it sold 100 rooms and received total rooms revenue of $17000
OTA
To help keep workers safe
50%
Value
33. The best menus are those developed based upon
A stock issuing company that can own and operate its own hotels
Guest preference
Routine maintenance
Franchisors sales and marketing efforts
34. In a hotel guest room - Which is a potential source of HIV
ADR x Occupancy Rate= RevPar
Needles left by intravenous drug users
Laundry is processed
They should be update as guest preferences change over time
35. A brand specific frequent guest program is an example of a...
Franchisors sales and marketing efforts
All housekeeping employees
Independent
The ensure guest room cleanliness
36. What is true about second-tier management companies
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37. What is the lodging industry term used to identify the wages and benefits - replacement parts and contract services used to operate a maintenance and engineering department
Laundry is processed
Function rooms
Attrition
POM
38. Each of the following events would require one or more guest rooms - which would be classified as a SMERF
The person in charge of the hotel's maintenances department
Do not clean this room now
25 or fewer
A reunion held for veterans of the vietnam war
39. When considering varied types of guests such as families on vacation and businesspersons - what will be true about each type
They will have the same quality service expectations
The pool area
Emergency maintenance
Preventive maintenance
40. Maintenance that must be performed immediatley to minimize damage to a hotel is referred to as
Night auditor
Emergency maintenance
It is vacant and not yet cleaned
Opaque rate model
41. Which is true about a hotels commitment to green practices
Management contract
It is increasingly viewed by guests a a sign of commitment to quality service
The buying is based upon predetermined desired inventory levels
Function rooms
42. Which types of food items have labor 'built in' to their prices
They generally manage hotels for a fee
Value
A hotels sales and marketing teams results in relation to those of other hotels
Make or buy items
43. what type of activity describes a site tour
Presale activity
Flag
Kellogg cereal
They operate hotels for owners but do not use the management company's name as part of the hotels name
44. What is true about first tier management companies
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45. Which group would be classified as 'leisure travelers'
Sorting/washing/drying
A family on vacation
Preventive maintenance
Water pumps
46. Which of a hotel's costs would be lowered the most if the hotel implemented a successful source reduction program
Waste disposal costs
Your ADR is higher then that of your competitors
Identifying guests needs and wants
Function rooms
47. What is true about a marketing plan
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48. What is most likely to happen when many travelers want to visit and stay in an area
They will have the same quality service expectations
Profits are higher with banquet sales
Room rates and the number of operating hotel properties will increase
A hotels sales and marketing teams results in relation to those of other hotels
49. What is the most important reason for properly maintaining trash removal areas
Identifying guests needs and wants
20%
The elimination of insects - rodents and scavenging animals
A hotels occupancy tax
50. when using a par inventory system - how does the individual responsible for purchasing food items determine how much to buy
Independent
To help keep workers safe
A fixed amount paid for a guests daily travel expense
The buying is based upon predetermined desired inventory levels