Analysis of Managing Accommodation Services: Scale, Ownership Types

This report provides an overview of accommodation services, defining it as a provision for overnight or day stays with equipped rooms, including services like beds, food, and light. It discusses the scale and size of various accommodation types such as hotels and self-catered accommodations, highlighting different ownership forms like privately-owned, management contracts, franchise models, referral groups, leased, and managed properties. The report emphasizes the crucial role of hotel classification systems in setting standards for consumers and intermediaries, noting that each country follows its own system. Ultimately, the report concludes that the hospitality industry plays a major role in offering accommodation services to travelers, visitors, and tourists, supported by references to studies on sustainability, management accounting, and consumer choices in the accommodation sector.

MANAGING
ACCOMMODATION SERVICES

INTRODUCTION
The term accommodation services is explained as
a provision which charges some amount of fee
for a sheltered overnight or day in an appropriate
equipped rooms and it include some important
product or service which are a bed, food and
light.

SCALE AND SIZE OF THE ACCOMMODATION SERVICES
Various types of accommodation services are offered and
each of them deliver different facility and experience to
customer or traveller. Some types of accommodation
services with their size and scale are mention as follow -
• Hotels
• Self-catered accommodation
• Hostels

DIFFERENT FORMS OF OWNERSHIP
Hotel ownership and management are basically consists with various forms and they are
privately owned, management contract, referral groups and franchises. Basic explanation
of ownership and accommodation services are mention as follow:
• Privately - owned
• Management contract
• Franchise Model
• Referral Group
• Leased
• Managed

ROLE OF CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM
Hotel classification systems perform an important role in the
accommodation sector and the main role of this identify an
indicator for both consumers and intermediaries to work with
same standard. Moreover, each country follow their own
classification systems for classify their hotels. Some of them
specifically for UK, are mention as follow
• Internal auditor
• Advisor / Assessor
• Inspector / Auditor

CONCLUSION
FROM THE BASIS OF ABOVE REPORT THIS
IS CONCLUDED THAT HOSPITALITY
INDUSTRY PERFORM MAJOR OPERATIONS
OF OFFERING ACCOMMODATION
SERVICES TO THE TRAVELLERS, VISITOR
AND TOURIST. ALONG WITH THIS
VARIOUS TYPES OF SERVICES.

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