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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. Travelers who intend to stay five days or longer and required reduced hotel services
Franchisor loading corporation
Forbes 5 star
Extended stay hotels
Taberna
2. Service encounters during which service quality is judged; first impression.
The difference between guest accounts and house accounts ?
Cut off date?
What is inelastic demand?
Moments of truth
3. Blocking/pre-assigning rooms
Room assignment process
When are lodging analysts bullish on hotel stocks?
Tourism
Discuss a weakness of functional organizational design.
4. Owns the hotel but retains a chain or independent management company to operate the property
Airport hotels
Code of Hammurabi
NON REIT Owner
When does the night audit begin?
5. Negotiated based on number of rooms
Mansio
What is group rate?
NON REIT Owner
What is rack rate?
6. 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
Hotels are typically organized along functional lines. List three strengths of functional organizational design.
Ideal Room Rate
What is the American Plan?
Mansio
7. 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 to calculate average room rate?
Due bank
ADA
8. Turning away free independent traveler guests for lack of rooms due to group business
Market segmentation
What is Room status discrepancy ?
What completes the registration process?
What is displacement?
9. Determines a rooms long term availability
What is a guaranteed reservation?
What is reservation status?
Give an example of a fence used in the hotel industry
How the hotel size that has the largest percentage
10. 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
Short
Net Receipts
11. A number of rooms set aside for a group
Service recovery
Non-guaranteed reservation?
Why do hotels offer discounted rates?
What is a block?
12. Tall organization/ small number of employees report to a supervisor
What is a narrow span of control?
What is centralization?
Tour package coupons
Dimensions of Service Quality
13. Front Desk
What is a guest account?
WHat department is the heart of the hotel?
Service recovery
Room assignment process
14. # of room no shows divided by # of room reservations
What is the responsibility of the reservations?
Why do hotels offer discounted rates?
How do you calculate the % of no shows?
Due bank
15. Reality = expectations satisfied
Over or Short
What is Room status discrepancy ?
What should be
Guest satisfaction
16. Rooms actually reserved by group members
Why do hotels offer discounted rates?
What is centralization?
What is booked mean?
What is the largest department?
17. Not sensitive to price. Business travel market
Who deals with the arrival of guests?
What is displacement?
Due bank
What is inelastic demand?
18. Reality < expectations dissatisfied
Top down or bottom up
Guest expectations
Discuss a weakness of functional organizational design.
Why might a hotel owner want to purchase a hotel franchise? What are the advantages of being a franchisee?
19. The hotel's standard published rate
What is rack rate?
What is booked mean?
Market Segmentation
What is yield statistoc?
20. Coupons used by members of tour groups to pay for meals etc...
Forcasted rooms revenue
What do on going franchise fees (including marketing fees) typically cost a hotel in terms of percent of revenues?
What is a block?
Tour package coupons
21. Expedia or Orbitz
Suite hotels
When would you want to use a minimum LOS control?
What is a third-party distribution company?
Independent Management Company
22. Room + 2 meals
Taberna
Why do hotels offer discounted rates?
Who deal with the pre arrival of the guests?
Modified American Plan
23. Less money in cash drawer than should be
Who deals with the departure of the guests?
Who deals with the arrival of guests?
Who deals with the occupancy of the guest?
Short
24. Where the rich people stayed when traveling in the Roman Empire
What is reservation status?
Give an example of a fence used in the hotel industry
The lodging industry has several unique characteristics which make it ideal for utilizing yield management. Name at least four of the characteristics.
Mansio
25. Actual cash in dollars and cents in the cash drawer
Ideal Room Rate
What is...
Franchisor
How to calculate average room rate?
26. China and India
What do on going franchise fees (including marketing fees) typically cost a hotel in terms of percent of revenues?
What is a narrow span of control?
Where will the majority of the global growth take place
What is the most used operating ratio?
27. The process of recording transactions onto a folio
What is group rate?
Dimensions of Service Quality
What is the largest department?
What is posting?
28. Guest accounts are all charges and payments of guests - and house accounts are all charges and payment of non guests
Guest satisfaction
Discuss a weakness of functional organizational design.
Paying off house vouchers
The difference between guest accounts and house accounts ?
29. 1990; accomodate guests and employees with disabilities
Code of Hammurabi
What is housekeeping status?
ADA
Discuss a weakness of functional organizational design.
30. City Hotel - NY city
What was the first Hotel?
Forcasted rooms revenue
Non-collectible account
Market segmentation
31. The second largest employer in US - 1 OF EVERY 14 AMERICANS EMPLOYED IN TOURISM - MAKES $20000 A SECOND
Forbes 5 star
10000 rooms revenue. Sold 95 rooms with 5 comps
Tourism
Over or Short
32. The bank has to be re-built to the stipulated amount by giving cash back to the cashier
Paying off the due bank
WHat department is the heart of the hotel?
Extended stay hotels
TShe income Audit
33. 10000 divided by 95 + 5=10000 divided by 100=100$
Over or Short
10000 rooms revenue. Sold 95 rooms with 5 comps
Mansio
Give an example of a fence used in the hotel industry
34. Determines a rooms short term availability
What is the American Plan?
Forbes 5 star
What is housekeeping status?
What is the difference between an employee and an associate?
35. Concierge/bellstaff
What is booked mean?
10000 rooms revenue. Sold 95 rooms with 5 comps
Who is the keys of gold?
Role of management
36. Hotel holds room for guest credit card - advanced deposit. Billed even if they do not use the room
What are 'fences'?
What is a guaranteed reservation?
What is a third-party distribution company?
What is centralization?
37. A checking of accounts done every morning to verify accuracy of cash transactions and to prepare bank deposit for the day
Short
10000 rooms revenue. Sold 95 rooms with 5 comps
TShe income Audit
What is the largest department?
38. Issuing the room key
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 completes the registration process?
Merchant discount fee
Guest satisfaction
39. A collection of all transactions incurred by a guest.
What is the average daily rate?
Reality
What is a guest account?
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?
40. Harder to get than 5 diamond
What is wash (down)?
Independent Management Company
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
Forbes 5 star
41. Hotel holds room until 4 or 6
Non-guaranteed reservation?
Who deals with the arrival of guests?
What is booked mean?
Chain Management
42. To sell every available room at the most profitable rate
Owner/operator
10000 rooms revenue. Sold 95 rooms with 5 comps
Extended stay hotels
What is the responsibility of the reservations?
43. Logical rational rules designed to allow customers to segment themselves into appropriate rate categories
44. Owns hotel brands and sells the right to use them
What is a block?
What is corporate rate?
Franchisor
What completes the registration process?
45. Date when group blocked rooms return to hotel room inventory
What was the first Hotel?
Discuss a weakness of functional organizational design.
A hotel sold 95 rooms with 5 compted rooms. It is a 150 room hotel with 25 out of order. What is the occupancy %?
Cut off date?
46. Number of rooms occupied divided by number of rooms available
Short
How do u calculate occupancy %?
What is centralization?
Market Segmentation
47. Rooms available X occupancy percentage X Average daily rate
Role of management
Modified American Plan
What is reservation status?
Forcasted rooms revenue
48. Rooms department revenue divided by expected number of rooms sold
Modified American Plan
How to calculate average room rate?
Paying off the due bank
Give an example of a fence used in the hotel industry
49. Encourages department performance instead of the main goal which is overall hotel performance
What is the largest department?
Discuss a weakness of functional organizational design.
Chain Management
Distribution of the reports is the final step in night audit process?
50. Retained to manage a hotel on behalf of the owner
Independent Management Company
Who is the keys of gold?
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?
Ideal Room Rate
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