Table of Contents INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1 TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1 P1. Identifying size and scale of accommodation services in hospitality industry.....................1 P2. Various types of ownership that are available to accommodation services..........................2 P3. Role of grading, classification systems and online review sites...........................................4 TASK 2............................................................................................................................................5 P4. Organisation of front office functions within a variety of accommodation services............5 P5 Key roles within front office department...............................................................................6 TASK 3............................................................................................................................................7 P6 Key roles in housekeeping department..................................................................................7 P7 Importance of forecasting linen stock and guest supplies to meet demand...........................8 P8 Importance of interrelationship between housekeeping and other departments to provide quality services............................................................................................................................8 TASK 4............................................................................................................................................9 P9 Importance of scheduling maintenance work to minimise disruption...................................9 P10 Importance of security in Hotel...........................................................................................9 CONCLUSION...............................................................................................................................9 REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10
INTRODUCTION Accommodation is a term which is mainly used when an individual wishes to refer to certain amount of buildings or rooms where people reside for a quite smaller span of time. Accommodationmanagement facilities are generally provided by hotels and hospitality sector. Services to manage accommodation exist in both private as well as public sector. It can either be in form of hotels, conference centres, cruise ships etc (Brockelman and Scheyett, 2015). This report is constructed based on Travelodge hotel which is headquartered in Thames, England, UK. It is second largest hotel in UK in budget sector.This report further discusses scale and size of accommodation services along with different types of ownerships that exist in hospitality sector. This report also considers role of grading and a range of various accommodation services. Role of front office department along with roles performed by it have been mentioned here. TASK 3 P6 Key roles in housekeeping department. Housekeeping department is an essential component of every hotel whether it may be small, medium or large scale. This department plays a quite critical and essential role so that a healthy environment with cleanliness in hotel is ensured (Cawthon and et. al., 2015). In context of Travelodge there are various further divisions which have been discussed as under: Executive level:Members of this department lead the overall functioning of house keeping department. They are further responsible for developing a coordinating environment among variousfunctionsthat are performed in this department. Also they are responsible for creating awareness if any new function is being brought in. Guest-room cleaning-This department of housekeeping ensures that rooms are cleaned within specified time as soon as customers check in and check out. Personnels in this department ensure that all check in and check out customers are provided with cleaner and hygienic rooms. Public area cleaning-Cleanliness is themain function of this department . Apart from rooms they are also required to clean public areas such as dining, restaurants, lobbies, front office areas etc. 1
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Laundry- Laundry means to wash and iron clothes such as bed linen, blankets, towels and many a times even clothes of customers staying in there. In any case if a linen curtain or blanket tears off they also need to replace it with other fresh piece (Rauch and et. al., 2015). Various responsibilities or duties of house keeping department in Travelodge have further been stated as under: To be very well behaved and efficient while providing services to customers. To maintain a healthy and welcoming ambience in hotel so whenever a guest visits they feel quite homely. They further should communicate with every department and check if any stock has been missing or less. Also they should coordinate with purchase section so that they can mention which department needs what resources. P7 Importance of forecasting linen stock and guest supplies to meet demand Forecasting generally refers to a basic idea as to how many customers will be visiting a hotel in a specified period of time. It can either be a month or more. In context of Travelodge it is noted that it is second best hotel in UK in budget sector hence there a number of customers who visit that hotel. Hotel provides various key facilities such as accommodation, meeting hall, dining, restaurant etc. The needs of all these areas has to be further planned. Also as there a number of customers visiting on a daily basis proper cleaning should be ensured so that customer satisfaction gets enhanced from time to time. Forecasting will be very helpful in reducing chances of stock out (Chen, 2015). P8 Importance of interrelationship between housekeeping and other departments to provide quality services. House keeping department is the most active department of Travelodge . There are various other departments that coordinate with each other so that they can further maintain effectiveness in functionality of hotel. Some major interrelationships have been mentioned as under: Thereisaninterrelationshipbetweenfrontofficedepartmentandhousekeeping department which ensures that cleanliness of front office and lobby area is maintained. This further lends a quite satisfactory image of the hotel in front of its customers. 2
Another department that is related to house keeping department is food and beverages department . This ensures that articles used by food and beverages department are clean and germ free. This further ensures a hygienic environment in hotel. Interrelationship between house keeping and security department ensures that every room is cleaned at regular intervals. Also security department in this case ensures that they take over and handle keys with utmost responsibility (Lyu, Li and Law, 2019). House keeping department is also interlinked with kitchen which ensures that there is timely pest control in kitchen which further leads to maintaining hygiene. TASK 4 P9 Importance of scheduling maintenance work to minimise disruption. Scheduling is an important activity which refers to a process of planning, assembling and coordinating employees, data, materials and other equipments that may help in performing an activity in an effective manner. By scheduling activities in Travelodge it becomes quite easier that they can provide better quality goods and services to their customers. Travelodge hotel is a quite large business concern with around 500 hotels has various assetsthat can be used for performingoverallbusinessoperations.Witheffectivemaintenanceofactivitiestimely performing activities has become quite possible (Liang and et. al., 2017). Also it ensures lesser possibilities of destruction or damage in properties so it is needed that activitiesshould be planned as per their requirements.It is easy to measure work load on workers. Budget forecasting is easy for managers of Travelodge hotel. Scheduling helps tomake changes in business operations according to external market, so it is easy for managers to be in competent to external market. P10 Importance of security in Hotel. Security and safety are two main aspects in a hotel which need to be considered by managers of Travelodge . It will further help them in providing a healthy work environment to guests as well as workforce. Alsothey need to ensure that a proper lock system , cameras, punching system etc is installed in hotel . This will further help in maintaining a safe and secure environment . This further ensures that there are no damages in property which makes it more cost effective for business.There are also lesser possibilities of theft or crime in hotel and managers can always keep an aye on working on hotel as well. This helps in building overall 3
brand image of hotel (Deale and Crawford, 2018). Hotel equipments must be properly working, so in case of any emergency it can be used and safe environment can be provided to guest. In case of earthquake or fire broke out, emergency exit are used, hence this helps to safe employees and consumers. CONCLUSION From the above mentioned report it has been concluded that it is very essential that every activity is planned which will further help in managing accommodation services. Also different types of size and scale in hotels in UK has been stated in this report along with inter-relationship between various departments.Front desk operator, key clerk, etc. are the roles played in Front office department. In housekeeping department, cleaning public area, executives, etc. are the key roles which helps to perform operations in effective manner. With forecasting of linen stock, it is easy to provide satisfactory services to consumers, possibilities of over and under stock is less. At the end there is discussion about inter relationship of housekeeping department with security, kitchen, Food and Beverage, front office which helps to provide best services to consumers. 4
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