Local Production, Consumption, and Sustainability in the Hospitality Industry

Local production
consumption and
sustainability

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION................................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY ......................................................................................................................................3
Examine operational issue & discuss one operational issue from case study................................3
Briefly analyse operational issue by applying models, or frameworks..........................................4
Access one relevant case & examine how tourism/ hospitality business cope up with issue .........7
Recommendations............................................................................................................................8
CONCLUSION..................................................................................................................................10
RFERENCES......................................................................................................................................11
Books & Journal:...........................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
In this business sector, production consumption, operations as well as functions are
important without which it is not possible to achieve higher productivity. In this competitive
market, it is essential for hospitality industry to be active and conduct internal analysis so that
operational problems are identified in appropriate way (Deže, 2017. Without solving problems
within business, it is not possible to achieve objectives in proper manner. Main aim of this report is
to critically understand the importance of operational issue within hospitality or tourism sector.
Four Season Hotel & Resorts, a five star hotel headquartered in Canada. Firm deals in hospitality
services and provides wide range of services such as lodging, room booking and cancellation, food
& drinks services etc. It has many competitor such as Four Season Hotels, The Ritzz London and
many more. This report comprises of operational issue & importance, models linked with
operational issue, case of operational issue and recommendations.
MAIN BODY
Examine operational issue & discuss one operational issue from case study
Operational issue are defined as kind of problem that occur during working function of
business. There are various type of operational issues such as local productions, cyber risks,
regulation and compliance, managing overheads, listening to feedbacks, uncertainty of situations,
etc. From chosen case study of Four Season Hotel, it is seen that they have been facing operational
issue of local production in their business at larger scale within their firm as because of increasing
competition to businesses due to rivalries in market is leading to high cost of suppliers & scarcity of
resources. Local production is defined as strategy to provide local communities with better
sustainability & new job opportunities by properly scanning environment (Dogru, 2016). It is
essential for manager of hotel to deal with this issue in correct way because hotel has many
personal credentials and data of users, guests who visit to their hotels and it is necessary to provide
them with better quality or services. Many wide range of suppliers are being adopted by rivalry
industries who enter into hotels profit & loss statement & uses it as a strategic tool to decrease the
competition in market. Due to unskilled employees within management, it become difficult for firm
to achieve higher standards of business.
This has been seen that it is advisable for them to overcome with issue of production such
as skilled labour shortage, managing sales leads, intimating of new technological advances etc.
These are some of local production issue which are faced by Four Season Hotel & Resorts.
This negative impacts upon their operation and functions of workforce as well as firm.

Further, manager of hotel is being taking effective measures to overcome with this issue so that
higher productivity is being achieved without facing any problem during processes. Due to this
local production issue, it is becoming difficult for them to expand their business at global scale in
proper manner. To deal with issue, they have changed their staff access to system to allowing access
to few individual only. Technology advancement is important as for achieving higher development
as well as growth. But when adapting it, proper measures are needed to be adopted so that risk do
impacts on function of business. Therefore, by using correct applications of technology in business,
it is easy to achieve competitive benefits. Also, it is duty if manager to identify these threats and
problems that occur within local production.
To solve problems faced in local production, it is crucial to focus on business environment
through both external as well as internally so that they are able to access to appropriate type of
strategies for examined problems (Jarzebski, 2020).
Briefly analyse operational issue by applying models, or frameworks
Operational issues are necessary to be examined so that it is easy to carry out all activities
in most effective manner. In relevance of chosen hotel, it is becoming difficult for them to manage
decisions & resolve issue. It is responsibility of manager & leaders to make assure that correct type
of models are being applied. These issues are required to be solved in most efficient manner. With
properly applying of frameworks, it is necessary to analyse that inhospitality industry, problems are
required to be solved within period of time (Jarzebski, 2020). Due to local production, work is
completed within time period. Manager of selected hotel need to be aware about these issues on
basis of which strategies are implemented effectively. So, models such as Sustainable
Development Goals by United Nations (The 17 Goals ) has been applied to deal or understand
these operational issues. It is further discussed below-
SDG- Sustainable Development Goals
According to this framework, it states that there are 17 goals or global goals which are
linked with management to achieve sustainable future. It was set by United Nations General
Assembly. It is beneficial framework which is required to be adopted by selected entity as it help
in making effective decisions within business. Leaders and managers needed to apply these models
through which they were able to make tactics (Leal Filho, 2018).
This framework is useful through which it is easy to accomplish goal within period of time. It
basically includes 17 goals which are given as follows-
 1 – Poverty- At global scale, poverty has been rising at wider level. It is essential to focus