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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. Actual cash in dollars and cents in the cash drawer
When would you want to use a minimum LOS control?
How the hotel size that has the largest percentage
What is...
Room assignment process
2. 1. Solid brands 2. Strong frequent guest program backed by excellent service and high product quality
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3. Cashier (FD)/ uniformed services
Who deal with the pre arrival of the guests?
Airport hotels
Over
Who deals with the departure of the guests?
4. Blocking fewer rooms than requested by the group based on past history
What is centralization?
What is wash (down)?
The difference between guest accounts and house accounts ?
When are lodging analysts bullish on hotel stocks?
5. 10000 divided by 95 + 5=10000 divided by 100=100$
What are 'fences'?
Confirmed reservation?
10000 rooms revenue. Sold 95 rooms with 5 comps
Why do hotels offer discounted rates?
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
Paying off house vouchers
Hotels are typically organized along functional lines. List three strengths of functional organizational design.
What should be
Distribution of the reports is the final step in night audit process?
7. An organization member has the right to make a decision without obtaining approval from a higher level manager.
What is a narrow span of control?
What is rack rate?
What is decentralization?
What is the responsibility of the reservations?
8. Rooms available X occupancy percentage X Average daily rate
What is corporate rate?
Forcasted rooms revenue
What is decentralization?
Forbes 5 star
9. Date when group blocked rooms return to hotel room inventory
What makes hotel franchising different from other types of franchises? Think about the difference between a quick-service restaurant and a full-service hotel.
Mansio
Cut off date?
Distribution of the reports is the final step in night audit process?
10. Set of registered hotel guest accounts
What is the responsibility of the reservations?
What is a guest ledger
Suite hotels
Service recovery
11. Tall organization/ small number of employees report to a supervisor
Tour package coupons
A hotel sold 95 rooms with 5 compted rooms. It is a 150 room hotel with 25 out of order. What is the occupancy %?
What is a wide span of control?
What is a narrow span of control?
12. Reality = expectations satisfied
Guest expectations
Guest satisfaction
Non-collectible account
Non-guaranteed reservation?
13. Where the poorer people stayed when traveling in the Roman Empire
Taberna
Chain Management
What is a block?
Where will the majority of the global growth take place
14. 1. hotel staff members greet upon arrival 2. a welcome reception for the guests is held 3. guests check in and occupy rooms 4. activities - dining - and entertainment are arranged
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15. First laws to govern hotels - no watering down beer and must pay hotel tax or get hand chopped off
Over or Short
Confirmed reservation?
Code of Hammurabi
What should be
16. Provided to frequent business guests
What is reservation status?
How to calculate average room rate?
What is the largest department?
What is corporate rate?
17. Encourages department performance instead of the main goal which is overall hotel performance
What are 'fences'?
Discuss a weakness of functional organizational design.
Caravanseri
When would you want to use a minimum LOS control?
18. The retention of decision making authority by a high level manager
What is decentralization?
What is reservation status?
What is centralization?
NON REIT Owner
19. 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 'fences'?
What is reservation status?
What is inelastic demand?
20. Less money in cash drawer than should be
Short
Service recovery
What is booked mean?
What makes hotel franchising different from other types of franchises? Think about the difference between a quick-service restaurant and a full-service hotel.
21. Rooms revenue divided by number of rooms sold
Who is the keys of gold?
What was the first Hotel?
What are 'fences'?
What is the average daily rate?
22. They are bullish because there is a near-zero amount of new hotel supply - Loans are difficult to get - Extremely limited new build activity
What is a narrow span of control?
Forbes 5 star
When are lodging analysts bullish on hotel stocks?
What is corporate rate?
23. Blocking/pre-assigning rooms
Dimensions of Service Quality
The difference between guest accounts and house accounts ?
Room assignment process
What is a narrow span of control?
24. Luxury - upper-upscale - upscale
Distribution of the reports is the final step in night audit process?
The hotel classifications that make up 7% of all hotels but make 36% of all hotel revenue
The lodging industry has several unique characteristics which make it ideal for utilizing yield management. Name at least four of the characteristics.
What is centralization?
25. When more money is paid out than comes in and the cashier uses his bank for the payment
Suite hotels and extended stay hotels
What are 'fences'?
Service recovery
Due bank
26. Harder to get than 5 diamond
Guest expectations
European Plan
Forbes 5 star
What is the difference between an employee and an associate?
27. Number of rooms occupied divided by number of rooms available
Hotels are typically organized along functional lines. List three strengths of functional organizational design.
When does the night audit begin?
Cut off date?
How do u calculate occupancy %?
28. The difference between money taken in and paid out
Distribution of the reports is the final step in night audit process?
Guest expectations
Modified American Plan
Net Receipts
29. More money in cash drawer than should be
Room assignment process
Over
What is centralization?
What is the largest department?
30. A number of rooms set aside for a group
A hotel sold 95 rooms with 5 compted rooms. It is a 150 room hotel with 25 out of order. What is the occupancy %?
What is housekeeping status?
What is a block?
European Plan
31. 6%? look up
How do you calculate the % of no shows?
Guest satisfaction
Service recovery
What do on going franchise fees (including marketing fees) typically cost a hotel in terms of percent of revenues?
32. Actual rooms revenue divided by potential rooms revenue
Suite hotels
Reality
How to calculate average room rate?
What is yield statistoc?
33. Housekeeping status differs from front desk status
Hotels are typically organized along functional lines. List three strengths of functional organizational design.
Is there really such a thing as a six or seven star hotel?
How to calculate average room rate?
What is Room status discrepancy ?
34. Cash according to accounts
Suite hotels
Modified American Plan
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 should be
35. Reversal of problem; solving the problem and retaining the goodwill of the customer.
Guest satisfaction
What is the American Plan?
Service recovery
What is the most used operating ratio?
36. Address expectations and reality with honest advertising and training employees 'over delivery'
Role of management
Forcasted rooms revenue
Dimensions of Service Quality
What is rack rate?
37. # of room no shows divided by # of room reservations
How do you calculate the % of no shows?
Who is the keys of gold?
What are 'fences'?
Tourism
38. Hotel gets money later - pays employee up-front
What are the differences between a C-Corp. and a REIT?
Guest satisfaction
How do u calculate occupancy %?
Float Losses
39. Owns the hotel but retains a chain or independent management company to operate the property
NON REIT Owner
What is a guest ledger
Extended stay hotels
What is displacement?
40. True
Distribution of the reports is the final step in night audit process?
Suite hotels
Confirmed reservation?
Forcasted rooms revenue
41. The bank has to be re-built to the stipulated amount by giving cash back to the cashier
What is the average daily rate?
Float Losses
What is decentralization?
Paying off the due bank
42. Concierge/bellstaff
Who is the keys of gold?
Tourism
Over or Short
When would you want to use a minimum LOS control?
43. Rooms department revenue divided by expected number of rooms sold
How do u calculate occupancy %?
How to calculate average room rate?
10000 rooms revenue. Sold 95 rooms with 5 comps
What is centralization?
44. A collection of all transactions incurred by a guest.
What completes the registration process?
What are the differences between a C-Corp. and a REIT?
Moments of truth
What is a guest account?
45. FD/PBX
Market segmentation
What is a guaranteed reservation?
Who deals with the occupancy of the guest?
How to calculate average room rate?
46. Owns hotels affiliated with chain brands
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 loading corporation
Chain Management
Guest satisfaction
47. Room and meals are separate
European Plan
Discuss a weakness of functional organizational design.
Suite hotels and extended stay hotels
Due bank
48. Determines a rooms short term availability
What is housekeeping status?
What is displacement?
Short
When does the night audit begin?
49. If the bill is not paid - hotel cannot recover tip already paid out
Non-collectible account
What is elastic demand?
Tourism
How to calculate average room rate?
50. Chain Management - Independent Management Company - Owner/Operator and Non- REIT owner.
Franchisor
European Plan
Suite hotels and extended stay hotels
Franchisor loading corporation