Things to do for Hotel owners

Things to do for Hotel owners
1. housekeeping
2. maintenance
3. front desk
4. supplies
5. accounting
6. sales
7. marketing
8. franchise

Housekeeping:
1. Hire the right Housekeeping Staff
2. Train them on how to do the job focusing on quality
3. They can play a role in improving customer service
4. Teach them how to conserve supplies
5. How to Save on Payroll
6. teach them teamwork
7. Assign KPIs to track their performance
Maintenance:
1. Hire the right person who knows the job
2. Can take outside contractors help for specialized skills
3. take care of stuff that’s broken right away before becomes major issue
4. pool
5. landscaping
6. boiler
7. fire alarms and extinguishers
8. storage of tools and supplies
9. customer service and quality
10. teamwork
Laundry:
1. Train on using right washer codes and dryer minutes
2. conserve on supplies
3. Keep laundry area clean including dryer filters
4. Separate towels, sheets for type of customer
5. front desk can share these duties to save on payroll
6. can be assigned other duties like houseman
7. teamwork
Front desk:
1. Hire only the best as they are dealmakers or barkers
2. customer service customer service
3. phone skills
4. reservations skills
5. walk in skills
6. sales and marketing using front desk agent
7. keep front desk area neat and organized
8. valet laundry, pizza delivery, taxi, security agents go through front desk
9. team work
10. handling security and safety issues
11. concierge listings and neighborhood information/directions
A lot is coming on this topic..

Hospitality and Technology

The slowing economy is affecting the hospitality industry in a number of negative ways but there are still exciting and profound new opportunities in an industry that is likely the second oldest industry on earth and the internet is a perfect medium for selling travel as it brings a vast network of suppliers and a widely dispersed customer pool into a centralized market place. To tell the truth, more travel is being sold over the internet than any other product and in the US its more than any other county. Basically, I can say, globally in the travel marketplace where millions of buyers looking for good travel services and beside the sellers like hotels, airlines, or other companies providing the buyers whatever they are looking for through the Internet technology. Intetrnet is a medium that is up to date, fast and easy to use. How this technology has been totally changing our culture in a way we do business and the behavior of the consumer and their shopping habits. imagine that! although internet technology has given hotel owners so many ways to sell their room, it has become nearly impossible for a smaller hotel.operator to understand, let alone intelligently manage the available channels for room sales. In fact I can say if you have a little but average hotel, many of these channels have an allotment of your rooms. At the same time, new computer-based yield management tools must be used to ensure the optimum balance between direct and discount reservations in order to derive maximum yield from your product.You got an advantage by integrating all these tools into a well-planned and executed program.

participation levels and economies of scale

I have been busy in several activities,working full time and keeping myself busy with my hobby for web design.. by the way,during this economical bad time, Let's see what Mr. Barack Obama will do for US. The hotel managers tend to focus on participation levels and economies of scale. This may result in a hotel being placed under a particular marketing 'umbrella,' and paying its share of the costs for a program that is not suitable.Unfortunately, hotel demand is currently weakening in most markets, room rates are under pressure and hotel profits are declining.all the hotel owners are just in tense. They don’t know what to do in such a bad economy. If they want to sell the hotel they won’t get the money their hotel deserve. As well as Reduced leverage and higher cost of debt will reduce the prospect of new brand competition for a time, but will also lessen the value of an existing hotel asset. Some hotel industry acquired a pretty bad reputation when it started because some of the practices of developers and salespeople were pretty sleazy.The disparity between the goals of the brand manager and the hotel owner is likely to widen and stress levels are apt to increase. The hotel owner needs to understand those differences, and take aggressive action to restore or maintain balance and assure that the management company fully understands and remains focused on the owner's goals. In that way, he will retain the maximum amount of cash flow and investment return possible and preserve more of the asset value. Other hotels of other brands that are in the same market create opportunities to use local suppliers to get equal or better quality at lower prices. I have personal experienced this in the Cincinnnati, OHIO market.

Hotel deptt Organization

I will discuss how managers can organize important and repetitive functions in hotels to improve efficiency and reduce expenses,depending on situation.We will separate our discussion in different parts for different category of hotel administration.

Its managers job to give structure to hotel operations that will establish an authority and span of control for staff & business as a whole. We will talk here about independent owner/operator/manager .

There are many hotels(may be called as motels) where the hotel owner is the operator/manager and worker himself who will clean and maintain the property either by himself or with his/her spouse or associates/partners.

1.responsible for checking-in guests
2.responsible for checking-out guests
3.responsible for assisting during guest stay
4.responsible for reservations on phone or through GDS(global distribution system) with help from expedia,hotels.com, priceline etc
5.responsible for marketing/sales efforts
6.responsible for inventory purchase,storage & control
7.responsible for security and watching for safety of guests
8.responsible for resolving guest customer complaints
9.responsible for money spent vs money earned(budgeting)
10.responsible for legal matters personally(unless formed LLC or incorporated)