Hospitality Provision in the Travel and Tourism Sector: Interrelationships and Integration

Hospitality provision in travel and tourism sector
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Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Task 1- Written article...............................................................................................................4
1.1 Discuss the interrelationships between hospitality and wider travel and tourism
businesses...............................................................................................................................4
Task 2- written management report...........................................................................................8
Executive summary................................................................................................................8
Introduction............................................................................................................................8
2.1 Analyse the implications of integration to the hospitality industry..................................9
2.2 Discuss how integration has affected a hospitality business..........................................13
Conclusion............................................................................................................................16
Conclusion................................................................................................................................17
References................................................................................................................................18
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Introduction
This assignment is related to the case study of PKF hotel experts which provides a wide range
of hospitality facilities to the customer. The PKF- hotel experts are Austria based firm which
provides numerous goods and services to the customers. The hospitality simply refers to the
relationship among guest and host where the host accepts the guest with kindness, comprising
the welcome and entertainment of visitors, or strangers. The service industries which are
benefit from tourism are transportation services and many more. In the today’s world, the
hospitality sector is rapidly increasing as this is due to the involvement of tourism sector.
Basically, this module is divided into three parts. The first part will present an understanding
of the role of the hospitality sector in the tourism and travel segment. The second task will
discuss the how integration has affected the hospitality business such as PKF- hotel experts.
In this section, the implication of integration to the hospitality sector will be discussed in an
effective and efficient way. In the third task, planning will be made in the context of the
development of the hospitality businesses. It can be seen that with changing times the tourists
are getting attracted towards stay, comfortable and quality of products.
(Source: Global Hospitality Portal, 2018)
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Task 1- Written article
1.1 Discuss the interrelationships between hospitality and wider travel and tourism
businesses.
Topic- Understanding the role of the hospitality industry in the travel and tourism sector
Date- 12 April. 2018
Introduction- This article will present the relationships among hospitality and wider travel
and tourism sector. This article is related to the case study of PKF hotel expert which totally
focuses on hotel, travel and vacation checking. PKF hotel expert is a globally recognised
marketplace front-runner in the field of guesthouse, travel & vacation consulting. Basically, it
is Austria based organisation but it runs in approx. 100 countries. As per the record, this
organisation was founded in the year 1869 by William J Forster who marks the foundation of
the firm's dedicated hospitality advisory actions, maintained by intricate financial surveys and
relevant benchmarking facilities ideal for a globally developing industry. In the current era,
the hospitality sector is growing rapidly day by day. It is simply an extensive group of fields
within the industry that comprises the housing, occasion planning, theme parks, conveyance,
vacation, and supplementary fields in the tourism industry.
(Source: WKO, 2018)
A hospitality sector is an extensive group of industries that helps in providing facilities to the
clients. The main focus of the hospitality sector is to satisfy the needs and demand of
customer and providing specific experiences to them (Walker, 2012). The reason behind the
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