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Hotel Operations Management
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hospitality
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Hotel gets money later - pays employee up-front
Cut off date?
Suite hotels and extended stay hotels
Float Losses
What is yield statistoc?
2. Expedia or Orbitz
Service recovery
How the hotel size that has the largest percentage
What is a third-party distribution company?
What is booked mean?
3. True
Over or Short
Top down or bottom up
Distribution of the reports is the final step in night audit process?
What is yield statistoc?
4. No - there aren't - it is self proclaimed - not awarded
Is there really such a thing as a six or seven star hotel?
Extended stay hotels
Give an example of a fence used in the hotel industry
What is decentralization?
5. 95+5=100 divided by 150-25=125=80%
10000 rooms revenue. Sold 95 rooms with 5 comps
Service recovery
What is a narrow span of control?
A hotel sold 95 rooms with 5 compted rooms. It is a 150 room hotel with 25 out of order. What is the occupancy %?
6. China and India
Net Receipts
Forcasted rooms revenue
What do on going franchise fees (including marketing fees) typically cost a hotel in terms of percent of revenues?
Where will the majority of the global growth take place
7. Hotels need to satisfy as many guests as possible and maximize revenues from existing demand
What is the difference between an employee and an associate?
Why do hotels offer discounted rates?
Market segmentation
How do u calculate occupancy %?
8. Very sensitive to price. Leisure travel market
European Plan
What is elastic demand?
ADA
How the hotel size that has the largest percentage
9. Date when group blocked rooms return to hotel room inventory
What is the largest department?
Chain Management
Cut off date?
What are the differences between a C-Corp. and a REIT?
10. 1. group common tasks to allow for work specialization - which increases overall productivity 2. training is easier because of similarity and the many opp's for inexp workers to learn from exp workers 3. fosters efficiency - teamwork - and coordinati
Market Segmentation
Top down or bottom up
Hotels are typically organized along functional lines. List three strengths of functional organizational design.
Who is the keys of gold?
11. The second largest employer in US - 1 OF EVERY 14 AMERICANS EMPLOYED IN TOURISM - MAKES $20000 A SECOND
Room assignment process
Tourism
What is a guest ledger
Who deals with the arrival of guests?
12. Reservations and non refundable purchases for price sensitive guests versus opposite
What is the most used operating ratio?
Give an example of a fence used in the hotel industry
What is yield statistoc?
Why do hotels offer discounted rates?
13. Reality > expectations 'thrilled'
What is the American Plan?
What are 'fences'?
Reality
What is reservation status?
14. 1990; accomodate guests and employees with disabilities
Extended stay hotels
ADA
What is a guest ledger
Forbes 5 star
15. Tangibles - reliability - responsiveness - assurance and empathy
Merchant discount fee
What are 'fences'?
Market segmentation
Dimensions of Service Quality
16. Not sensitive to price. Business travel market
Suite hotels and extended stay hotels
Moments of truth
What is inelastic demand?
Franchisor
17. Travelers who intend to stay five days or longer and required reduced hotel services
Extended stay hotels
What is group rate?
A hotel sold 95 rooms with 5 compted rooms. It is a 150 room hotel with 25 out of order. What is the occupancy %?
What is the average daily rate?
18. Coupons used by members of tour groups to pay for meals etc...
NON REIT Owner
Tour package coupons
Paying off house vouchers
What makes hotel franchising different from other types of franchises? Think about the difference between a quick-service restaurant and a full-service hotel.
19. Cash according to accounts
What is elastic demand?
The lodging industry has several unique characteristics which make it ideal for utilizing yield management. Name at least four of the characteristics.
What is a third-party distribution company?
What should be
20. Actual cash in dollars and cents in the cash drawer
Is there really such a thing as a six or seven star hotel?
Role of management
What is wash (down)?
What is...
21. Front Desk
What was the first Hotel?
WHat department is the heart of the hotel?
European Plan
When does the night audit begin?
22. When more money is paid out than comes in and the cashier uses his bank for the payment
Due bank
Over or Short
When are lodging analysts bullish on hotel stocks?
What is group rate?
23. Means to expand quickly with little capital -collect franchise fees
Tourism
European Plan
Why might a hotel owner want to purchase a hotel franchise? What are the advantages of being a franchisee?
Market Segmentation
24. Rooms department revenue divided by expected number of rooms sold
What is group rate?
Where will the majority of the global growth take place
How to calculate average room rate?
Moments of truth
25. Determines a rooms long term availability
Why do hotels offer discounted rates?
What is Room status discrepancy ?
What is wash (down)?
What is reservation status?
26. The separation between rich and poor
What is a guest account?
What was the first Inn?
European Plan
Market Segmentation
27. Rooms actually reserved by group members
Suite hotels
What is booked mean?
What is a guest account?
10000 rooms revenue. Sold 95 rooms with 5 comps
28. Turning away free independent traveler guests for lack of rooms due to group business
Taberna
What is displacement?
Cut off date?
What is the largest department?
29. Logical rational rules designed to allow customers to segment themselves into appropriate rate categories
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30. Where the rich people stayed when traveling in the Roman Empire
What is corporate rate?
Over or Short
Owner/operator
Mansio
31. Separation between classes of hotels - luxury - mid-scale - economy
Why might a hotel owner want to purchase a hotel franchise? What are the advantages of being a franchisee?
Market segmentation
What is the American Plan?
Role of management
32. Service encounters during which service quality is judged; first impression.
European Plan
Give an example of a fence used in the hotel industry
Moments of truth
What is a block?
33. Issuing the room key
Suite hotels
What is decentralization?
What completes the registration process?
What is Room status discrepancy ?
34. Housekeeping status differs from front desk status
What are the differences between a C-Corp. and a REIT?
What are the six steps in the Revenue Management Model?
What is Room status discrepancy ?
What is displacement?
35. C corp - legal - taxable entity - REIT - exempt from corporate tax as long as they comply with certain guidelines
What are the differences between a C-Corp. and a REIT?
What is a guest folio?
Modified American Plan
Non-guaranteed reservation?
36. The hotel's standard published rate
What is wash (down)?
What is rack rate?
Give an example of a fence used in the hotel industry
What is a third-party distribution company?
37. If the bill is not paid - hotel cannot recover tip already paid out
Non-collectible account
Discuss a weakness of functional organizational design.
What is wash (down)?
When would you want to use a minimum LOS control?
38. Flat organization/ large number of employees reporting to one supervisor
What are 'fences'?
What is a guaranteed reservation?
What is a wide span of control?
Cut off date?
39. Reality < expectations dissatisfied
Tourism
Guest satisfaction
Over
Guest expectations
40. Negotiated based on number of rooms
Who deals with the arrival of guests?
What is inelastic demand?
What is group rate?
Room assignment process
41. First laws to govern hotels - no watering down beer and must pay hotel tax or get hand chopped off
How the hotel size that has the largest percentage
Due bank
The difference between guest accounts and house accounts ?
Code of Hammurabi
42. More money in cash drawer than should be
Over
Tour package coupons
What is booked mean?
WHat department is the heart of the hotel?
43. Hotel holds room for guest credit card - advanced deposit. Billed even if they do not use the room
What is yield statistoc?
When are lodging analysts bullish on hotel stocks?
A hotel sold 95 rooms with 5 compted rooms. It is a 150 room hotel with 25 out of order. What is the occupancy %?
What is a guaranteed reservation?
44. Determines a rooms short term availability
What is housekeeping status?
What is elastic demand?
What are the six steps in the Revenue Management Model?
Merchant discount fee
45. A number of rooms set aside for a group
What is reservation status?
What is a block?
What is rack rate?
What is posting?
46. Less money in cash drawer than should be
What is the largest department?
What is elastic demand?
What is inelastic demand?
Short
47. Rooms available X occupancy percentage X Average daily rate
Why do hotels offer discounted rates?
Forcasted rooms revenue
What should be
Room assignment process
48. Coles Ordinary
Paying off the due bank
Discuss a weakness of functional organizational design.
When would you want to use a minimum LOS control?
What was the first Inn?
49. Encourages department performance instead of the main goal which is overall hotel performance
Non-guaranteed reservation?
Discuss a weakness of functional organizational design.
Tourism
Given the high barriers to entry in some of the major lodging markets - increased revenues at the hotel level can only be derived from taking market share. What are the necessary 'tools' for attracting business from competitors?
50. Hotel holds room until 4 or 6
What is the largest department?
Hotels are typically organized along functional lines. List three strengths of functional organizational design.
Non-guaranteed reservation?
Taberna