Managing Accommodation Services

Managing
Accommodation
Services

Table of Content
• Introduction
• Scale and size of the accommodation services
• The different forms of ownership
• Role of grading, classifications systems and online review sites
• Explain the front office functions of organisation
• Discuss key roles within front office department
• Conclusion
• References

Introduction
Services related to accommodation belongs to hospitality industry.
Hospitality refers to the relationship between a guest and a host. Guests
are attracted to take accommodation with host who possess goodwill.
Contribution of hospitality industry to the UK economy has grown
more quicker then that of the other sector.

Introduction
Services related to accommodation belongs to hospitality industry.
Hospitality refers to the relationship between a guest and a host. Guests
are attracted to take accommodation with host who possess goodwill.
Contribution of hospitality industry to the UK economy has grown
more quicker then that of the other sector.

Scale and size of the accommodation services
There are wide range of hotels in UK that differs in size and scale. To
demonstrate the scale of the accommodating services sector in UK
graphs are prepared. These are as follows-
Table 1: Quantity of one, two, three, four and five star hotels in the
UK.
1 star 2 star 3 star 4 star 5 star
0
2000
4000
6000
8000
10000
12000
7981 8382
10878
9369
8390
Quantity of Hotels in UK
Quantity

Cont...
Table 2: Quantity of hotels when compared with number of bedrooms
0-100
101-200
101-300
More than 300
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
6
7
7
4
Column B