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Lodging Operations 101
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What is the lodging industry term used to identify the wages and benefits - replacement parts and contract services used to operate a maintenance and engineering department
An outside vendor
Package
POM
Confirm item quantity and quality
2. Who will most often have the greatest detailed knowledge of guest likes and dislikes
Contribution margin
Empowerment
Line level employees
GDS
3. What is true about transient travelers
They are individual travelers
Trains
Holiday inn
Contribution margin
4. What is a lodging industry term for hotels operating under the same brand name
The elimination of insects - rodents and scavenging animals
Empowerment
FTC
Chain
5. What is the travel industry term used to describe a group of travel services - such as hotel rooms - meals - and airfare - sold for one price
Comp set
Make or buy items
Line level employees
Package
6. What is the advantage of a CFL
The person in charge of the hotel's maintenances department
Identifying guests needs and wants
Reduced operational costs
Include bath towels - hand towels - and washclothes
7. Which of the following is NOT a demographic factor of a guest
They are individual travelers
Personality type
3 times the normal usage
Upon receiving
8. What is the name of the activity hoteliers use to minimize maintenance costs and prolong the life of hotel equipment
$3.20
Preventive maintenance
50%
Water pumps
9. In a hotel guest room - Which is a potential source of HIV
ADR x Occupancy Rate= RevPar
2-4% gross revenue
$2.25
Needles left by intravenous drug users
10. What is a REIT
A stock issuing company that can own and operate its own hotels
It has been intentionally left behind
The strength of the brand name and the revenue the name will bring to the hotel
Personality type
11. What does Amtrak operate
The host pays for the beverages cosumed by guests
3 times the normal usage
Trains
Daily
12. What happens to the unit price of food service items as the number of those items purchased increases
The ensure guest room cleanliness
All housekeeping employees
20%
Their price per unit declines
13. when using a par inventory system - how does the individual responsible for purchasing food items determine how much to buy
Deep cleaning
Preventive maintenance
The buying is based upon predetermined desired inventory levels
2-4% gross revenue
14. A CVB is typically funded by what
A hotels occupancy tax
A web site that allows a hotel's guests to post reviews of their previous stays
Do not clean this room now
The hotel's executive housekeeper in keeping with the hotel policies and procedures
15. What is the lodging industry term for a hotel that is not part of a franchise group?
Service
2-4% gross revenue
50000
Independent
16. When can a cross-functional team be an effective operatiional tool in a hotel
Effectively answer open-ended questions about hypothetical service situations
When resolving hotel operating problems
$2.20
Franchisors sales and marketing efforts
17. Which of the following is most essential to providing good service
It is vacant and not yet cleaned
Identifying guests needs and wants
Trains
The ratio of different room types in a hotel
18. In a hotel with the linen cost of $2 -486 in the month and the rooms sold was 1 -130 - what was the hotel's linen cost per occupied room
Executive chef
$2.20
Comp set
Contribution margin
19. In a full service hotel What is true abouth the profitability of banquet food sales compared to that of dining room sales?
Profits are higher with banquet sales
Function rooms
Routine maintenance
Housekeeping
20. What is the term used to identify those who sell the rights to use a hotels brand name
Housekeeping
It is vacant and not yet cleaned
Routine maintenance
Franchisor
21. Which company's motto is 'we are ladies and gentlemen serving Ladies and gentlemen'
It influences the guests total perception of a hotel visit
It has been intentionally left behind
Ritz carlton
Independent
22. In the lodging industry - What is the meaning of the term room mix
The ratio of different room types in a hotel
Routine maintenance
Include bath towels - hand towels - and washclothes
Trains
23. What best describes a hotels chief engineer
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24. What is the greatest difference between full service and limited service hotels
Daily
Line level employees
The food and beverage services offered by the hotel
$3.20
25. what type of activity describes a site tour
Group market
Presale activity
Air handlers
Maid
26. Which is the missing entry in the following formula when a hotel utilizes an accural accounting system? (Beginning inventory of food+_____) - ending food of food inventory=food cost
Purchases of food
Emergency maintenance
The pool area
They are individual travelers
27. Maintenance that must be performed immediatley to minimize damage to a hotel is referred to as
The investor seeks a return on investment (ROI)
Emergency maintenance
OTA
It matches expenses incurred with revenues generated
28. In a hotel dining room with a total revenue of $1 -150 and 85 guests served what would be the hotels check average
3 times the normal usage
50%
$13.53
FOC
29. What is the lodging industry term for the formal operating agreement between a hotel's owners and a hotel management company
Maid
The ratio of different room types in a hotel
Management contract
GDS
30. Which term refers to the fact that the decline in value of a hotel asset is generally tax deductible
Depreciation
FTC
Waste disposal costs
Daily
31. Which of the following is the formula hoteliers use to calculate RevPar
ADR x Occupancy Rate= RevPar
$3.20
The specific brands of products served and serving hours
Purchases of food
32. When considering varied types of guests such as families on vacation and businesspersons - what will be true about each type
They will have the same quality service expectations
Identifying guests needs and wants
It has been intentionally left behind
A reunion held for veterans of the vietnam war
33. What is true about the cost of providing room service meals
Attrition
The ensure guest room cleanliness
The cost is higher than that of dining room service
3 times the normal usage
34. In a 150 room hotel with housekeeping costs of $8000 and 2 -500 rooms sold in a mont - what would be the hotels labor cost per occupied room for that month
$2.20
They are not being supervised with a service emphasis
$3.20
Franchisors sales and marketing efforts
35. With 400 guests and breakfast costs of $550 what would be a hotel's food cost per guest
They generally manage hotels for a fee
The number of hotel rooms sold the previous night
Preventive maintenance
$1.38
36. what type of activity describes the act of placing an ad in the yellow pages?
Executive chef
Marketing activity
Licensing
A la carte
37. Each of the following events would require one or more guest rooms - which would be classified as a SMERF
Effectively answer open-ended questions about hypothetical service situations
A web site that allows a hotel's guests to post reviews of their previous stays
Housekeeping
A reunion held for veterans of the vietnam war
38. For Which item below would a 'replace as needed' program be best
Waste disposal costs
AAHOA
Water pumps
Attrition
39. In regard to quality service - a gal of zero defects can
ADR x Occupancy Rate= RevPar
Www.tripadvisor.com
Sorting/washing/drying
Be an effective way to measure progress toward established service standards
40. What type of lamp works when a filament inside the lamp's bulb is heated by electric current to produce light
Service
Be an effective way to measure progress toward established service standards
Incandescent bulb
Line level employees
41. Which group of housekeeping employees should receive blood born pathogen training
2-4% gross revenue
All housekeeping employees
ADR x Occupancy Rate= RevPar
$73.00
42. Which is true about a hotels commitment to green practices
It has been intentionally left behind
Costs increase
It is increasingly viewed by guests a a sign of commitment to quality service
POM
43. A brand specific frequent guest program is an example of a...
Franchisors sales and marketing efforts
20%
Purchases of food
Value
44. Who has the greatest influence on the overall quality of service provided within a hotel
The hotels general manager
Franchisors sales and marketing efforts
$1.38
Management contract
45. What is another lodging industry term for a specific hotel brand name
They operate hotels for owners using the management company's trade name as the hotels brand
The hotels general manager
Flag
Effectively answer open-ended questions about hypothetical service situations
46. What is true about mislaid property
Management contract
Room rates and the number of operating hotel properties will increase
It has been intentionally left behind
The pool area
47. Which group of employees will most often initiate the largest number of work orders
Housekeeping
It is a reception that includes the services of complimentary food and/or beverages
It is designed to meet the hotel's sales goal
Upon receiving
48. Which brand is generally recognized as the first hotel chain
Holiday inn
The authority to make key decisions
20%
Daily
49. What is true about abandoned property
It has been intentionally left behind
The american hotel and lodging association
BEO
When resolving hotel operating problems
50. Managers can seek out service-minded staff by hiring those job applicants who
The elimination of insects - rodents and scavenging animals
Effectively answer open-ended questions about hypothetical service situations
Presale activity
Their price per unit declines