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Hotel Operations Management
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hospitality
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1. # of room no shows divided by # of room reservations
Reality
How do you calculate the % of no shows?
What is inelastic demand?
How the hotel size that has the largest percentage
2. If the bill is not paid - hotel cannot recover tip already paid out
Non-collectible account
What is the American Plan?
Forbes 5 star
What is yield statistoc?
3. Coupons used by members of tour groups to pay for meals etc...
Who deals with the occupancy of the guest?
Tour package coupons
ADA
What was the first Hotel?
4. Reservations
What is a guest account?
When does the night audit begin?
Who is the keys of gold?
Who deal with the pre arrival of the guests?
5. Appeal to both business and leisure travelers
Cut off date?
What is a third-party distribution company?
Who deals with the departure of the guests?
Suite hotels and extended stay hotels
6. The bank has to be re-built to the stipulated amount by giving cash back to the cashier
What is the responsibility of the reservations?
Paying off the due bank
What is a narrow span of control?
TShe income Audit
7. Blocking/pre-assigning rooms
Hotels are typically organized along functional lines. List three strengths of functional organizational design.
What completes the registration process?
Is there really such a thing as a six or seven star hotel?
Room assignment process
8. More money in cash drawer than should be
Airport hotels
Modified American Plan
What is the largest department?
Over
9. Rooms revenue divided by number of rooms sold
Distribution of the reports is the final step in night audit process?
What is the average daily rate?
Moments of truth
What is reservation status?
10. The first place where a lot of people could stay overnight and keep all their animals etc
When would you want to use a minimum LOS control?
Suite hotels
Caravanseri
Forbes 5 star
11. Means to expand quickly with little capital -collect franchise fees
What is the largest department?
What is a narrow span of control?
Why might a hotel owner want to purchase a hotel franchise? What are the advantages of being a franchisee?
What is a guest ledger
12. Hotel holds room until 4 or 6
What should be
What is a guaranteed reservation?
Cut off date?
Non-guaranteed reservation?
13. A number of rooms set aside for a group
What completes the registration process?
Float Losses
Moments of truth
What is a block?
14. A statement of all transactions that affect the balance of an account
What is a guest folio?
Over or Short
Who deal with the pre arrival of the guests?
What is inelastic demand?
15. Turning away free independent traveler guests for lack of rooms due to group business
What is displacement?
Who deals with the departure of the guests?
Confirmed reservation?
Discuss a weakness of functional organizational design.
16. Tall organization/ small number of employees report to a supervisor
What is a narrow span of control?
What is posting?
Where will the majority of the global growth take place
What is the average daily rate?
17. Coles Ordinary
What was the first Inn?
Who deals with the departure of the guests?
What is a third-party distribution company?
Over or Short
18. Retained to manage a hotel on behalf of the owner
ADA
What is the responsibility of the reservations?
What is a guest folio?
Independent Management Company
19. A checking of accounts done every morning to verify accuracy of cash transactions and to prepare bank deposit for the day
TShe income Audit
What is inelastic demand?
Tourism
What are the differences between a C-Corp. and a REIT?
20. Where the rich people stayed when traveling in the Roman Empire
Airport hotels
What should be
Paying off house vouchers
Mansio
21. Difference between 'What should be' and 'what is'
What is a wide span of control?
NON REIT Owner
What is the largest department?
Over or Short
22. Reservations and non refundable purchases for price sensitive guests versus opposite
Who deals with the arrival of guests?
Modified American Plan
Give an example of a fence used in the hotel industry
What is a guest ledger
23. Date when group blocked rooms return to hotel room inventory
What is decentralization?
Cut off date?
Guest satisfaction
Why might a hotel owner want to purchase a hotel franchise? What are the advantages of being a franchisee?
24. Negotiated based on number of rooms
When would you want to use a minimum LOS control?
Modified American Plan
Over or Short
What is group rate?
25. Occupancy %
What is Room status discrepancy ?
What is...
Code of Hammurabi
What is the most used operating ratio?
26. Tangibles - reliability - responsiveness - assurance and empathy
Due bank
What is a guaranteed reservation?
Dimensions of Service Quality
How the hotel size that has the largest percentage
27. A collection of all transactions incurred by a guest.
What is a guest account?
What is housekeeping status?
What is a guaranteed reservation?
Extended stay hotels
28. Huge capital investment needed. Time to wait on zoning and construction.
The hotel classifications that make up 7% of all hotels but make 36% of all hotel revenue
What makes hotel franchising different from other types of franchises? Think about the difference between a quick-service restaurant and a full-service hotel.
Service recovery
Guest satisfaction
29. Owns hotel brands and sells the right to use them
Dimensions of Service Quality
Franchisor
What is wash (down)?
What is a guest account?
30. Reality < expectations dissatisfied
What is corporate rate?
What is the responsibility of the reservations?
Guest expectations
What is the average daily rate?
31. FD/PBX
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
Who deals with the occupancy of the guest?
What is elastic demand?
Franchisor
32. Hotel verifies that a guest has a reservation. can be guarnteed or no guaranteed
Discuss a weakness of functional organizational design.
Distribution of the reports is the final step in night audit process?
Franchisor
Confirmed reservation?
33. Room + 2 meals
What is the responsibility of the reservations?
Give an example of a fence used in the hotel industry
How the hotel size that has the largest percentage
Modified American Plan
34. Rooms fill from bottom-up so we may need to construct that way - with greater availability of cheaper rooms
Cut off date?
Top down or bottom up
What is a block?
Hotels are typically organized along functional lines. List three strengths of functional organizational design.
35. Concierge/bellstaff
Who is the keys of gold?
Hotels are typically organized along functional lines. List three strengths of functional organizational design.
Over or Short
How to calculate average room rate?
36. C corp - legal - taxable entity - REIT - exempt from corporate tax as long as they comply with certain guidelines
Who deals with the departure of the guests?
What is rack rate?
Tourism
What are the differences between a C-Corp. and a REIT?
37. The hotel's standard published rate
What is decentralization?
What is rack rate?
10000 rooms revenue. Sold 95 rooms with 5 comps
Airport hotels
38. To sell every available room at the most profitable rate
What was the first Inn?
Distribution of the reports is the final step in night audit process?
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?
What is the responsibility of the reservations?
39. Logical rational rules designed to allow customers to segment themselves into appropriate rate categories
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40. 6%? look up
What is a third-party distribution company?
What is group rate?
What do on going franchise fees (including marketing fees) typically cost a hotel in terms of percent of revenues?
Give an example of a fence used in the hotel industry
41. 'end of day'
What was the first Inn?
Who deals with the departure of the guests?
When does the night audit begin?
What is Room status discrepancy ?
42. Owns hotels affiliated with chain brands
Chain Management
What is the responsibility of the reservations?
What is centralization?
What is displacement?
43. Encourages department performance instead of the main goal which is overall hotel performance
What is the largest department?
Short
Discuss a weakness of functional organizational design.
Due bank
44. 70% occupancy - each room category is occupied at 70%.
Discuss a weakness of functional organizational design.
NON REIT Owner
Float Losses
Ideal Room Rate
45. 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 is group rate?
Over
Tourism
46. Hotel holds room for guest credit card - advanced deposit. Billed even if they do not use the room
What is a guaranteed reservation?
Service recovery
Where will the majority of the global growth take place
WHat department is the heart of the hotel?
47. Where the poorer people stayed when traveling in the Roman Empire
What is corporate rate?
Franchisor
Taberna
What is reservation status?
48. The difference between money taken in and paid out
Guest satisfaction
What is yield statistoc?
Net Receipts
The lodging industry has several unique characteristics which make it ideal for utilizing yield management. Name at least four of the characteristics.
49. An organization member has the right to make a decision without obtaining approval from a higher level manager.
Ideal Room Rate
What is a wide span of control?
Tourism
What is decentralization?
50. Cashier (FD)/ uniformed services
Merchant discount fee
Who deals with the arrival of guests?
Who deals with the departure of the guests?
What is wash (down)?