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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. Front Desk
Extended stay hotels
WHat department is the heart of the hotel?
Is there really such a thing as a six or seven star hotel?
Ideal Room Rate
2. Under 150 rooms
Moments of truth
How the hotel size that has the largest percentage
When does the night audit begin?
WHat department is the heart of the hotel?
3. Travelers who intend to stay five days or longer and required reduced hotel services
What is a guest account?
Room assignment process
Extended stay hotels
What is...
4. Coupons used by members of tour groups to pay for meals etc...
What is posting?
Tour package coupons
Is there really such a thing as a six or seven star hotel?
When are lodging analysts bullish on hotel stocks?
5. Harder to get than 5 diamond
Owner/operator
Modified American Plan
Forbes 5 star
Role of management
6. Negotiated based on number of rooms
10000 rooms revenue. Sold 95 rooms with 5 comps
The lodging industry has several unique characteristics which make it ideal for utilizing yield management. Name at least four of the characteristics.
Where will the majority of the global growth take place
What is group rate?
7. Blocking/pre-assigning rooms
Is there really such a thing as a six or seven star hotel?
WHat department is the heart of the hotel?
What is housekeeping status?
Room assignment process
8. Hotel holds room until 4 or 6
What is reservation status?
Service recovery
Non-guaranteed reservation?
What should be
9. Cashier (FD)/ uniformed services
Give an example of a fence used in the hotel industry
Tour package coupons
Who deals with the departure of the guests?
What is wash (down)?
10. Where the poorer people stayed when traveling in the Roman Empire
Why do hotels offer discounted rates?
What is a guaranteed reservation?
Cut off date?
Taberna
11. No difference - just sounds nicer
What is displacement?
What is the difference between an employee and an associate?
What is a third-party distribution company?
What are the differences between a C-Corp. and a REIT?
12. Service encounters during which service quality is judged; first impression.
Is there really such a thing as a six or seven star hotel?
Top down or bottom up
Moments of truth
Tourism
13. Hotel verifies that a guest has a reservation. can be guarnteed or no guaranteed
European Plan
Confirmed reservation?
Reality
Extended stay hotels
14. Owns hotel brands and sells the right to use them
WHat department is the heart of the hotel?
What are 'fences'?
Franchisor
Moments of truth
15. Luxury - upper-upscale - upscale
Independent Management Company
What is a narrow span of control?
When would you want to use a minimum LOS control?
The hotel classifications that make up 7% of all hotels but make 36% of all hotel revenue
16. Determines a rooms long term availability
Market segmentation
Net Receipts
What is reservation status?
Who deals with the arrival of guests?
17. Issuing the room key
What completes the registration process?
When does the night audit begin?
What makes hotel franchising different from other types of franchises? Think about the difference between a quick-service restaurant and a full-service hotel.
Forcasted rooms revenue
18. Rooms revenue divided by number of rooms sold
What is the average daily rate?
Over or Short
Non-guaranteed reservation?
Paying off the due bank
19. The hotel's standard published rate
What was the first Hotel?
Why might a hotel owner want to purchase a hotel franchise? What are the advantages of being a franchisee?
What is rack rate?
Who deals with the arrival of guests?
20. Set of registered hotel guest accounts
Modified American Plan
What is a guest ledger
Where will the majority of the global growth take place
Discuss a weakness of functional organizational design.
21. A statement of all transactions that affect the balance of an account
What is a guest folio?
What is Room status discrepancy ?
Moments of truth
Tourism
22. Reality = expectations satisfied
What is the largest department?
What is posting?
Mansio
Guest satisfaction
23. Separation between classes of hotels - luxury - mid-scale - economy
Short
Market segmentation
Float Losses
What are 'fences'?
24. First laws to govern hotels - no watering down beer and must pay hotel tax or get hand chopped off
What is a guest folio?
Code of Hammurabi
What is wash (down)?
What is yield statistoc?
25. Tangibles - reliability - responsiveness - assurance and empathy
What is yield statistoc?
Code of Hammurabi
Dimensions of Service Quality
What is displacement?
26. The process of recording transactions onto a folio
The lodging industry has several unique characteristics which make it ideal for utilizing yield management. Name at least four of the characteristics.
What are the differences between a C-Corp. and a REIT?
What is the responsibility of the reservations?
What is posting?
27. The second largest employer in US - 1 OF EVERY 14 AMERICANS EMPLOYED IN TOURISM - MAKES $20000 A SECOND
Non-collectible account
Over
Airport hotels
Tourism
28. No - there aren't - it is self proclaimed - not awarded
What was the first Hotel?
Is there really such a thing as a six or seven star hotel?
Give an example of a fence used in the hotel industry
Where will the majority of the global growth take place
29. The difference between money taken in and paid out
Net Receipts
Market Segmentation
What is a third-party distribution company?
Forcasted rooms revenue
30. Uniformed services/FD
What are the six steps in the Revenue Management Model?
Who deals with the arrival of guests?
A hotel sold 95 rooms with 5 compted rooms. It is a 150 room hotel with 25 out of order. What is the occupancy %?
Top down or bottom up
31. Hotel holds room for guest credit card - advanced deposit. Billed even if they do not use the room
What is a guaranteed reservation?
Create a process map for a transient business guest who arrives at the city airport - requires shuttle service - and checks into the hotel using the help of a bellman. This is the 'Business Guest Arrival and Check-in Process.' Indicate all functional
The hotel classifications that make up 7% of all hotels but make 36% of all hotel revenue
Guest expectations
32. Coles Ordinary
What was the first Inn?
What is the responsibility of the reservations?
Distribution of the reports is the final step in night audit process?
Why might a hotel owner want to purchase a hotel franchise? What are the advantages of being a franchisee?
33. China and India
What was the first Inn?
Float Losses
Where will the majority of the global growth take place
What are 'fences'?
34. Rooms department revenue divided by expected number of rooms sold
Discuss a weakness of functional organizational design.
Dimensions of Service Quality
How to calculate average room rate?
What are the differences between a C-Corp. and a REIT?
35. Encourages department performance instead of the main goal which is overall hotel performance
What is corporate rate?
What is the largest department?
Discuss a weakness of functional organizational design.
What is elastic demand?
36. Chain Management - Independent Management Company - Owner/Operator and Non- REIT owner.
Owner/operator
What is a narrow span of control?
Tour package coupons
Franchisor loading corporation
37. When they want to check in on a 'head night' and break up what is otherwise a potential consecutive day booking
What is Room status discrepancy ?
When would you want to use a minimum LOS control?
What is wash (down)?
Top down or bottom up
38. Reservations and non refundable purchases for price sensitive guests versus opposite
Chain Management
Give an example of a fence used in the hotel industry
What is centralization?
ADA
39. Reality > expectations 'thrilled'
What is housekeeping status?
Reality
WHat department is the heart of the hotel?
Caravanseri
40. Rooms actually reserved by group members
Who is the keys of gold?
What is the responsibility of the reservations?
What is booked mean?
Tour package coupons
41. Where the rich people stayed when traveling in the Roman Empire
Franchisor loading corporation
Mansio
Extended stay hotels
European Plan
42. Literally owns and operates hotel
Who deals with the arrival of guests?
Owner/operator
Non-guaranteed reservation?
Who is the keys of gold?
43. # of room no shows divided by # of room reservations
NON REIT Owner
How do you calculate the % of no shows?
What is wash (down)?
Airport hotels
44. Expedia or Orbitz
What was the first Hotel?
Distribution of the reports is the final step in night audit process?
Extended stay hotels
What is a third-party distribution company?
45. Reversal of problem; solving the problem and retaining the goodwill of the customer.
When are lodging analysts bullish on hotel stocks?
Service recovery
Chain Management
10000 rooms revenue. Sold 95 rooms with 5 comps
46. 10000 divided by 95 + 5=10000 divided by 100=100$
10000 rooms revenue. Sold 95 rooms with 5 comps
Tour package coupons
Franchisor loading corporation
What is yield statistoc?
47. A checking of accounts done every morning to verify accuracy of cash transactions and to prepare bank deposit for the day
TShe income Audit
Airport hotels
When would you want to use a minimum LOS control?
Top down or bottom up
48. Hotels need to satisfy as many guests as possible and maximize revenues from existing demand
What are 'fences'?
What is a guest account?
European Plan
Why do hotels offer discounted rates?
49. Concierge/bellstaff
Suite hotels
Who is the keys of gold?
What is the most used operating ratio?
Ideal Room Rate
50. Provided to frequent business guests
What is corporate rate?
What should be
Market segmentation
Mansio