Hospitality Industry: Interrelationships, Integration, and Development Plan

Contents
INTRODUCTION............................................................................................................................. 2
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................ 3
THE INTERRELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN HOSPITALITY AND WIDER TRAVEL AND TOURISM
BUSINESSES................................................................................................................................3
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................ 8
UNDERSTAND THE IMPACT OF INTEGRATION ON THE HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY.......................8
TASK 3.......................................................................................................................................... 11
DEVELOPMENT PLAN FOR THE HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY INCLUDING RATIONALE STUDY........11
STAGE 1 – DEVELOPMENT................................................................................................... 11
STAGE 2 – DESIGN................................................................................................................13
STAGE 3 – OPERATIONS.......................................................................................................14
CONCLUSION............................................................................................................................... 15
REFERENCES.................................................................................................................................16
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INTRODUCTION
Many of the industries are contributing to the revenue generation for the UK's economy and
hospitality industry is playing an important role in this along with the travel and tourism
industry. The hospitality industry is offering many services like house-catering, accommodation,
food services, camping etc. that all are playing important role in serving the international and
domestic guests that are visiting in the UK for different purposes.
In this assignment, a discussion has been made on the different services that are offered to the
customers under the hospitality sector and tourism sector, as both of them are playing an
important role in serving the people (Mok, Sparks and Kadampully, 2013). Business travel,
Visitor’s attraction, Exhibition and educational conferences etc. are some of the services that
are common in both the industries. Integration plays a very important role in the hospitality
industry can this topic has also taken into consideration in this assignment, with the help of
some big merges and impacts of them on the hospitality industries like Marriot International.
The company's rationale has also been discussed in this assignment while choosing a business
project and the entire operational structure of the company is also been discussed while
completing the business projects.
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TASK 1
THE INTERRELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN HOSPITALITY AND WIDER TRAVEL AND
TOURISM BUSINESSES
Role of the hospitality industry within the travel and tourism sector
Several businesses are served by the hospitality industry that is playing the same role in that of
the travel and tourism industry in the UK. Exponential growth has been registered by the
hospitality industry in the past few years that results in the rise of many advantageous factors
in the country. This is because both the domestic and international companies are dedicated to
investing money in the hospitality industry due to the identification of profits that can be
obtained in the industry.
Approximately, there are 127,000 businesses in the UK that are working in this industry and
also providing job opportunities to 3 million individuals of the country. This information is
stated from a report that has been made by the British Hospitality Association (Nickson, 2013).
Hospitality industry’s composition
Following are some of the businesses that come under the hospitality industry and contributing
to the economic development of the UK (Walker, 2016):
Hotels
As per the maintained records and analysis of the UK’s statistics, there are approximately
22,000 large and small hotels that are offering their services to the customers. As per these
services, they are rated on a scale of 1 to 5 stars, which also shows the standard and position of
these hotels in the UK’s business market. The hotels that are listed in the category below 3-star
are serving customers with the decent type of food at minimal and affordable prices and hence
average accommodation facilities are provided to the customers by these hotels. On the other
hand, the hotels that are listed above 3-star are providing high-quality services to its customers
and here premium pricing is focused because of the luxury services and facilities.
According to the observation, it is concluded that the visitors who prefer spending time outside
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