Accommodation Services: Industry Contribution, Types, and Management

This report provides a comprehensive overview of accommodation services within the hospitality industry, highlighting its significant contribution to the economy and tourism sector. It details various types of accommodation, including commercial businesses like hotels, hostels, and motels, as well as non-commercial options such as rental houses. Different forms of ownership, including privately owned, leased, and managed hotels, are discussed, along with an explanation of hotel grading systems from one to five stars. The report also emphasizes the roles of online sites in influencing customer preferences and the crucial functions of the front office in ensuring security and customer satisfaction. Concluding that the accommodation sector is vital for serving visitors with quality services and that ownership and grading systems are dependent on customer reviews and service offerings.

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Table of Content
 Introduction
 Accommodation sector contribution to industry
 Facts
 Types of accommodation services
 Different form of ownership applied in accommodation service
 Grading system
 Roles of online sites
 Functions of front office
 Roles of front office
 Conclusion

INTRODUCTION
In today's business environment,
hospitality industry plays an important
role for growth of a country's economy. It
determines the need for the tourism
industry to establish hygiene and
management requirements as well as to
enforce effectively the budget. This is
important to handle lodging facilities in
the private and public sectors as well as
innovations such as hotels, convention
centres, ship facilities and much more.

Accommodation sector
contribution to
industry
In present time, it has been analysed that
accommodation which is a sub-sector of hospitality
industry offers different temporary services to
potential customers. Along with this, it has been
analysed that this sector is commonly associated with
tourism sector as well, where client's books different
adventures and other sort of holidays packages along
with the trips, where they also require to book hotels
as well in order to get the proper entertainment out of
their busy lives.

Facts
 Average occupation
rate- In present time,
based on different aspects
it can be said that
occupancy rate is said to
be one of the crucial
indication, which is utilised
by different hotels and
other organisations when
it comes to serve the best
to customers within the
hospitality industry.

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 Employment tax contribution-
In the year of 2014, employment
that this hospitality sector has
given to it's citizens is in the
number in between 2.9 million,
which shows that this industry has
given 8.8% of the total
employment at small, medium
and at large level. Including this if
it is talked about 2010, then this
industry (hospitality) has gained
growth and raised employment,
which reduced the tax rates.

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 GDP- The realities portray
the all out commitment of
settlement segment to GDP in
UK as research delineates
that, this division assumes a
significant job in the
improvement and
development of economy. As
it fundamentally impacts the
economy every single year
and industry made an
absolute commitment of
around 217 billion British
pounds to GDP in UK.

Types of
accommodation
services
Hospitality industry consists of various
accommodation types, which is significant for
every single individual to understand various
alterations that may take place within the
business environment. In present context, some of
different types in accommodation services are
given underneath:

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Commercial Businesses
 Hotels: This is said to be one of the important
accommodation type, which offers clients with
private rooms where they also deliver number
of services to them in relation to food and so
on.
 Hostels: Another crucial accommodation type
that comes with different elements where both
wanderers along with the backpackers who
requires a particular place to stay where they
can spend time for both long and short term.

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 Motel: Primal aim of these type of
accommodating hotels is target the individuals
that are travelling long distance.
 Bed and breakfasts: These are for the most
part visitor houses which hold not in excess of 10
rooms and there reason for existing is to give a
superior spot to remain, warm and home
prepared dinner in morning.

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Non-commercial Businesses
 Rental houses and individually owned
units: These units are not for benefit as here,
individuals live by paying rent and these houses
has proprietors.

Different form of
ownership applied in
accommodation service
Ownership Type Definition Examples
Privately owned hotels One individual as a sole
proprietor or more than two or
two partners specifically owns
this type of hotel which is
developed for earning profits.
Wedgewood hotel and Spa.
Leased hotels Lease related agreements take
place among owner of the hotel
and lessee, where whole
responsibility and profit margins
are taken into consideration by
the lessee.
Western house hotel