Managing Accommodation Services in Hospitality Sector - Desklib

Managing
accomodation services

Table of Contents
Introduction.................................................................................................................................................3
Main Body...................................................................................................................................................3
TASK 1.......................................................................................................................................................3
P1) Discuss size as well scale of accommodation services in hospitality sector......................................3
P2) Form of ownership in accommodation industry................................................................................4
P3) Role of grading system, online review sites while customer make booking for accomdation...........5
TASK 2.......................................................................................................................................................7
P4) Organization of functions of front office department in various accommodation services................7
P5) Role of front office department.........................................................................................................8
TASK 3.......................................................................................................................................................9
P6) Role of housekeeping department in organizational context.............................................................9
P7) Significance of forecasting of linen and other supplies in order to ensure adequate supply for
meeting with demand.............................................................................................................................10
P8) Discuss value of interrelationship of housekeeping and other departments within organization.....11
TASK 4.....................................................................................................................................................11
P9) Discuss how scheduling, repair and maintenance work is important to minimize guest disruption.11
P10) Significance of security within organization.................................................................................12
Conclusion.................................................................................................................................................14
References.................................................................................................................................................15

Introduction
Accommodation services are related with stay of people who travel from one place to
another. Here, this facility is offered for a particular period of time. It is required to maintain
hygienic and clean environment within hospitality organization so that people can enjoy the stay.
In addition to this accommodation services also significantly contribute in growth and
development of whole hospitality sectors. It is associated with hotel, tourism industry in
profound manner (Wood, 2017). For present report, Hilton is taken into consideration. It is a
well-known hospitality organization which had wide spread chain of hotels across the globe. It is
headquartered in united state of America. The report includes types of accommodation, role of
front office and housekeeping department. In addition to this, it covers importance of linen
forecasting and interrelation of housekeeping and other departments within organization. At end,
significance of scheduling and maintenance and security has also been included in the following
report.
Main Body
TASK 1
P1) Discuss size as well scale of accommodation services in hospitality sector
In Accommodation services facilities of comfortable stay are provided to guests. In this,
all the necessary amenities which are crucial for stay are arranged for visitors. It is analyzed that
accommodation sectors is a crucial part tourism and hotel industry.
Size of Accommodation sector
Number of hotels is really high in UK as the hospitality industry is a significant part of
overall economy of country. There are nearly 45800 hotels across the country. It is found that
94.96% hotels of UK are luxury. In 2020, Market size of accommodation industry of nation was
$5.8 billion (Hotels in the UK - Market Size, 2021). It is analyzed that accommodation industry
is expected to grow in future period of time. This sector also contributes in employment
generation within country. Hospitality industry is considered as the fourth largest employer of
UK wherein 2302000 individuals are employed in significant manner.

Scale of accommodation industry
With increasing number of tourists, there is a scope of growth of accommodation industry
in future period of time. Hospitality sector includes guest house, hotels, leisure and more. It
contributes nearly 4% in overall GDP of nation. In 2020, nearly 13.8 million jobs were provided
by hospitality sector.
P2) Form of ownership in accommodation industry
Ownership Type Definition Examples
Privately owned hotels Here, hotel is owned as well as
run by a single person. This
person is responsible to take
all the necessary decisions for
growth of business entity.
An example of such hotel is
Wedgewood hotel which is
situated in Vancouver.
Leased hotels In this, hotel is taken on leases
but it is for a particular period of
time. Lessee is also required to
pay lease rent of property
(Fewings and Henjewele,
2019).
For instance-Love hotel
Leases.