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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. Where the rich people stayed when traveling in the Roman Empire
Mansio
Chain Management
Give an example of a fence used in the hotel industry
Paying off house vouchers
2. Reality < expectations dissatisfied
Guest expectations
What is a third-party distribution company?
What is posting?
Where will the majority of the global growth take place
3. Service encounters during which service quality is judged; first impression.
Independent Management Company
Moments of truth
Distribution of the reports is the final step in night audit process?
Over or Short
4. Provided to frequent business guests
What is corporate rate?
European Plan
TShe income Audit
What was the first Hotel?
5. Hotel has to pay fee to VISA or AMEx - but does not reduce tip
Merchant discount fee
Who deals with the arrival of guests?
Confirmed reservation?
What is the difference between an employee and an associate?
6. 95+5=100 divided by 150-25=125=80%
A hotel sold 95 rooms with 5 compted rooms. It is a 150 room hotel with 25 out of order. What is the occupancy %?
Suite hotels and extended stay hotels
What is the American Plan?
Non-collectible account
7. Reality = expectations satisfied
Short
Guest satisfaction
Who is the keys of gold?
What is centralization?
8. Blocking fewer rooms than requested by the group based on past history
What do on going franchise fees (including marketing fees) typically cost a hotel in terms of percent of revenues?
Tour package coupons
What is elastic demand?
What is wash (down)?
9. Rooms revenue divided by number of rooms sold
When are lodging analysts bullish on hotel stocks?
What is the average daily rate?
What is the most used operating ratio?
Who is the keys of gold?
10. C corp - legal - taxable entity - REIT - exempt from corporate tax as long as they comply with certain guidelines
What is a wide span of control?
Mansio
What are the differences between a C-Corp. and a REIT?
What is decentralization?
11. Blocking/pre-assigning rooms
Extended stay hotels
What is group rate?
The difference between guest accounts and house accounts ?
Room assignment process
12. Where the poorer people stayed when traveling in the Roman Empire
What is housekeeping status?
Who deals with the occupancy of the guest?
Dimensions of Service Quality
Taberna
13. Not sensitive to price. Business travel market
What is inelastic demand?
Suite hotels
Over or Short
Give an example of a fence used in the hotel industry
14. The process of recording transactions onto a folio
What is posting?
How the hotel size that has the largest percentage
What do on going franchise fees (including marketing fees) typically cost a hotel in terms of percent of revenues?
What is housekeeping status?
15. When they want to check in on a 'head night' and break up what is otherwise a potential consecutive day booking
Why do hotels offer discounted rates?
What is the responsibility of the reservations?
When would you want to use a minimum LOS control?
What is group rate?
16. Means to expand quickly with little capital -collect franchise fees
Why might a hotel owner want to purchase a hotel franchise? What are the advantages of being a franchisee?
How do u calculate occupancy %?
What are the six steps in the Revenue Management Model?
Extended stay hotels
17. The first place where a lot of people could stay overnight and keep all their animals etc
Caravanseri
How to calculate average room rate?
Why do hotels offer discounted rates?
Discuss a weakness of functional organizational design.
18. Reservations
Who deal with the pre arrival of the guests?
What was the first Inn?
Room assignment process
What should be
19. 10000 divided by 95 + 5=10000 divided by 100=100$
What are the differences between a C-Corp. and a REIT?
What is Room status discrepancy ?
10000 rooms revenue. Sold 95 rooms with 5 comps
Guest expectations
20. 70% occupancy - each room category is occupied at 70%.
Paying off house vouchers
Forbes 5 star
What is the American Plan?
Ideal Room Rate
21. The bank has to be re-built to the stipulated amount by giving cash back to the cashier
Paying off the due bank
What is reservation status?
Mansio
Why do hotels offer discounted rates?
22. Cash according to accounts
What should be
What is displacement?
When does the night audit begin?
10000 rooms revenue. Sold 95 rooms with 5 comps
23. Set of registered hotel guest accounts
Market segmentation
What is a guest ledger
What is centralization?
Confirmed reservation?
24. Owns hotel brands and sells the right to use them
Float Losses
Franchisor
What is the responsibility of the reservations?
The difference between guest accounts and house accounts ?
25. Rooms fill from bottom-up so we may need to construct that way - with greater availability of cheaper rooms
What is corporate rate?
What is a guest account?
Top down or bottom up
European Plan
26. Cashier (FD)/ uniformed services
The hotel classifications that make up 7% of all hotels but make 36% of all hotel revenue
Market Segmentation
Who deals with the departure of the guests?
Guest expectations
27. 6%? look up
Paying off the due bank
What do on going franchise fees (including marketing fees) typically cost a hotel in terms of percent of revenues?
Who deal with the pre arrival of the guests?
Hotels are typically organized along functional lines. List three strengths of functional organizational design.
28. Appeal to both business and leisure travelers
What is housekeeping status?
Suite hotels and extended stay hotels
What was the first Hotel?
Role of management
29. Separation between classes of hotels - luxury - mid-scale - economy
Code of Hammurabi
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?
Market segmentation
Guest expectations
30. # of room no shows divided by # of room reservations
European Plan
How do you calculate the % of no shows?
Airport hotels
The difference between guest accounts and house accounts ?
31. Rooms department revenue divided by expected number of rooms sold
How to calculate average room rate?
The lodging industry has several unique characteristics which make it ideal for utilizing yield management. Name at least four of the characteristics.
Who is the keys of gold?
Suite hotels
32. A collection of all transactions incurred by a guest.
Who deals with the occupancy of the guest?
Mansio
What is a guest account?
What is the American Plan?
33. Rooms actually reserved by group members
Paying off the due bank
What is booked mean?
What are the differences between a C-Corp. and a REIT?
How do u calculate occupancy %?
34. City Hotel - NY city
What is a guest folio?
Market segmentation
What was the first Hotel?
Modified American Plan
35. Hotel verifies that a guest has a reservation. can be guarnteed or no guaranteed
Who deals with the arrival of guests?
Chain Management
Confirmed reservation?
What is group rate?
36. Front Desk
What is posting?
Give an example of a fence used in the hotel industry
WHat department is the heart of the hotel?
Float Losses
37. Room and meals are separate
What do on going franchise fees (including marketing fees) typically cost a hotel in terms of percent of revenues?
Caravanseri
The difference between guest accounts and house accounts ?
European Plan
38. Guest accounts are all charges and payments of guests - and house accounts are all charges and payment of non guests
Extended stay hotels
Give an example of a fence used in the hotel industry
The difference between guest accounts and house accounts ?
Who deals with the occupancy of the guest?
39. 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.
How the hotel size that has the largest percentage
Distribution of the reports is the final step in night audit process?
What is displacement?
40. The second largest employer in US - 1 OF EVERY 14 AMERICANS EMPLOYED IN TOURISM - MAKES $20000 A SECOND
NON REIT Owner
Tourism
TShe income Audit
Caravanseri
41. Flat organization/ large number of employees reporting to one supervisor
Float Losses
Net Receipts
What is a wide span of control?
Paying off the due bank
42. Hotel holds room until 4 or 6
NON REIT Owner
What is Room status discrepancy ?
TShe income Audit
Non-guaranteed reservation?
43. True
What do on going franchise fees (including marketing fees) typically cost a hotel in terms of percent of revenues?
Guest expectations
Distribution of the reports is the final step in night audit process?
Ideal Room Rate
44. Housekeeping
What is the largest department?
How do you calculate the % of no shows?
Extended stay hotels
The hotel classifications that make up 7% of all hotels but make 36% of all hotel revenue
45. Negotiated based on number of rooms
What are 'fences'?
What do on going franchise fees (including marketing fees) typically cost a hotel in terms of percent of revenues?
What is group rate?
What is rack rate?
46. Literally owns and operates hotel
Owner/operator
What is a narrow span of control?
Ideal Room 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 %?
47. Turning away free independent traveler guests for lack of rooms due to group business
Who is the keys of gold?
Code of Hammurabi
What is displacement?
Owner/operator
48. A statement of all transactions that affect the balance of an account
Franchisor loading corporation
Over or Short
What is a guest folio?
European Plan
49. No difference - just sounds nicer
What is a guest account?
Franchisor
What is group rate?
What is the difference between an employee and an associate?
50. A number of rooms set aside for a group
What is housekeeping status?
What is the responsibility of the reservations?
What is a block?
Caravanseri