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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. Reservations
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?
Franchisor
European Plan
Who deal with the pre arrival of the guests?
2. C corp - legal - taxable entity - REIT - exempt from corporate tax as long as they comply with certain guidelines
Confirmed reservation?
What are the differences between a C-Corp. and a REIT?
What is decentralization?
Modified American Plan
3. Less money in cash drawer than should be
Short
What are 'fences'?
Role of management
Dimensions of Service Quality
4. Actual cash in dollars and cents in the cash drawer
What is...
ADA
European Plan
Code of Hammurabi
5. Provided to frequent business guests
What is corporate rate?
What do on going franchise fees (including marketing fees) typically cost a hotel in terms of percent of revenues?
What is a guest folio?
Role of management
6. Hotel verifies that a guest has a reservation. can be guarnteed or no guaranteed
WHat department is the heart of the hotel?
ADA
Confirmed reservation?
Market Segmentation
7. Actual rooms revenue divided by potential rooms revenue
European Plan
What is yield statistoc?
Is there really such a thing as a six or seven star hotel?
What is a guest ledger
8. Literally owns and operates hotel
Guest satisfaction
Owner/operator
What is a guest folio?
What is the most used operating ratio?
9. Logical rational rules designed to allow customers to segment themselves into appropriate rate categories
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10. Harder to get than 5 diamond
Role of management
ADA
European Plan
Forbes 5 star
11. If the bill is not paid - hotel cannot recover tip already paid out
What is a guest ledger
Float Losses
Why might a hotel owner want to purchase a hotel franchise? What are the advantages of being a franchisee?
Non-collectible account
12. Front Desk
The lodging industry has several unique characteristics which make it ideal for utilizing yield management. Name at least four of the characteristics.
What is the largest department?
WHat department is the heart of the hotel?
Over
13. Separation between classes of hotels - luxury - mid-scale - economy
Merchant discount fee
Market segmentation
What is a third-party distribution company?
Taberna
14. Coupons used by members of tour groups to pay for meals etc...
What is yield statistoc?
What are 'fences'?
What is the average daily rate?
Tour package coupons
15. An organization member has the right to make a decision without obtaining approval from a higher level manager.
Taberna
What is group rate?
What is decentralization?
Who deals with the occupancy of the guest?
16. A collection of all transactions incurred by a guest.
How to calculate average room rate?
Over or Short
What is centralization?
What is a guest account?
17. 1990; accomodate guests and employees with disabilities
Discuss a weakness of functional organizational design.
What is a guest folio?
NON REIT Owner
ADA
18. A number of rooms set aside for a group
What is a wide span of control?
Guest expectations
European Plan
What is a block?
19. No difference - just sounds nicer
What is the difference between an employee and an associate?
Airport hotels
Give an example of a fence used in the hotel industry
What is a third-party distribution company?
20. Issuing the room key
What is yield statistoc?
What completes the registration process?
Moments of truth
Who deals with the arrival of guests?
21. Under 150 rooms
When would you want to use a minimum LOS control?
Who is the keys of gold?
How the hotel size that has the largest percentage
TShe income Audit
22. Frequent travelers - vacationing families - professionals( accountants - lawyers - and executives)
Moments of truth
Suite hotels
Room assignment process
What is the responsibility of the reservations?
23. Determines a rooms long term availability
Float Losses
What is displacement?
What is group rate?
What is reservation status?
24. The hotel's standard published rate
What is posting?
What is rack rate?
Where will the majority of the global growth take place
What is booked mean?
25. When more money is paid out than comes in and the cashier uses his bank for the payment
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?
Chain Management
Due bank
Discuss a weakness of functional organizational design.
26. Very sensitive to price. Leisure travel market
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
What is the most used operating ratio?
Tour package coupons
What is elastic demand?
27. No - there aren't - it is self proclaimed - not awarded
Suite hotels
Is there really such a thing as a six or seven star hotel?
What is...
Reality
28. 1. low variable costs - high fixed costs 2. perishable inventory 3. variable demand patterns 4. ability to forecast future demand 5. ability to segment customers
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?
How do u calculate occupancy %?
Who deals with the occupancy of the guest?
29. 6%? look up
What is housekeeping status?
What do on going franchise fees (including marketing fees) typically cost a hotel in terms of percent of revenues?
The hotel classifications that make up 7% of all hotels but make 36% of all hotel revenue
Franchisor loading corporation
30. Cashier (FD)/ uniformed services
Who deals with the departure of the guests?
European Plan
What should be
What is the responsibility of the reservations?
31. A statement of all transactions that affect the balance of an account
What is a block?
Confirmed reservation?
Tour package coupons
What is a guest folio?
32. Retained to manage a hotel on behalf of the owner
What is elastic demand?
Independent Management Company
What are 'fences'?
European Plan
33. Difference between 'What should be' and 'what is'
What is yield statistoc?
Over or Short
TShe income Audit
What is the largest department?
34. Huge capital investment needed. Time to wait on zoning and construction.
What makes hotel franchising different from other types of franchises? Think about the difference between a quick-service restaurant and a full-service hotel.
Why do hotels offer discounted rates?
Code of Hammurabi
Reality
35. The second largest employer in US - 1 OF EVERY 14 AMERICANS EMPLOYED IN TOURISM - MAKES $20000 A SECOND
What was the first Hotel?
Tourism
How the hotel size that has the largest percentage
How do u calculate occupancy %?
36. Rooms available X occupancy percentage X Average daily rate
Mansio
Top down or bottom up
A hotel sold 95 rooms with 5 compted rooms. It is a 150 room hotel with 25 out of order. What is the occupancy %?
Forcasted rooms revenue
37. 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
When would you want to use a minimum LOS control?
The lodging industry has several unique characteristics which make it ideal for utilizing yield management. Name at least four of the characteristics.
Over or Short
Hotels are typically organized along functional lines. List three strengths of functional organizational design.
38. Travelers who intend to stay five days or longer and required reduced hotel services
What are the six steps in the Revenue Management Model?
Chain Management
Guest satisfaction
Extended stay hotels
39. Number of rooms occupied divided by number of rooms available
Confirmed reservation?
What completes the registration process?
Why do hotels offer discounted rates?
How do u calculate occupancy %?
40. 'end of day'
When does the night audit begin?
Role of management
What is a guest ledger
What is the average daily rate?
41. Turning away free independent traveler guests for lack of rooms due to group business
Merchant discount fee
What is a guaranteed reservation?
What is displacement?
Forbes 5 star
42. City Hotel - NY city
Who deals with the occupancy of the guest?
10000 rooms revenue. Sold 95 rooms with 5 comps
Hotels are typically organized along functional lines. List three strengths of functional organizational design.
What was the first Hotel?
43. When they want to check in on a 'head night' and break up what is otherwise a potential consecutive day booking
Is there really such a thing as a six or seven star hotel?
What is inelastic demand?
When would you want to use a minimum LOS control?
What is Room status discrepancy ?
44. Rooms fill from bottom-up so we may need to construct that way - with greater availability of cheaper rooms
Suite hotels
Top down or bottom up
Why do hotels offer discounted rates?
Code of Hammurabi
45. First laws to govern hotels - no watering down beer and must pay hotel tax or get hand chopped off
What are 'fences'?
Suite hotels and extended stay hotels
Why might a hotel owner want to purchase a hotel franchise? What are the advantages of being a franchisee?
Code of Hammurabi
46. Means to expand quickly with little capital -collect franchise fees
Give an example of a fence used in the hotel industry
How do u calculate occupancy %?
Why might a hotel owner want to purchase a hotel franchise? What are the advantages of being a franchisee?
WHat department is the heart of the hotel?
47. China and India
Reality
What makes hotel franchising different from other types of franchises? Think about the difference between a quick-service restaurant and a full-service hotel.
Where will the majority of the global growth take place
Airport hotels
48. Encourages department performance instead of the main goal which is overall hotel performance
Service recovery
Discuss a weakness of functional organizational design.
How do u calculate occupancy %?
The lodging industry has several unique characteristics which make it ideal for utilizing yield management. Name at least four of the characteristics.
49. Where the rich people stayed when traveling in the Roman Empire
Non-collectible account
Mansio
NON REIT Owner
What is a guest folio?
50. More money in cash drawer than should be
Net Receipts
What is a guaranteed reservation?
Over
Airport hotels