Isrotel hotel chain was founded by an English businessman David Lewis in Eilat in 1980s. It is not surprise that he chose this destination because Eilat located in the heart of the Earth. It is a door to Sinai and Petra- old city of Jordan, close to Europe. The first hotel that Lewis founded was Isrotel King Solomon. This hotel chain helped to Israel to be a famous tourist destination since 1984.Since dying David Lewis this chain has been managed by Lior Raviv. The Isrotel Agamim hotel was opened in 2002. In addition, later the Isrotel Hotel Chain opened restaurants for gourmands in its hotels, Isrotel Theater (WoW Show) in Isrotel Royal Garden hotel , Carmel Forest Spa and Esprit Spa, also shopping centers and new festivals. The most …show more content…
Duty manager of the Hotel is Liran Bloch who looks through the hotel, employees’ and guests’ troubles all the nights. Director of Operations is Mr. David Amor and his assistant Ms. Samantalki Tal. Front Office manager- Mrs Rivital Coter controls all the reservations system and receptionists. Human Resources department takes care of all the staff and hotel. Manager is Ms.Orit Muhallen. The key manager for people and hotel is Public Relations manager who Ms. Sima Cohen is. Sales and Marketing Department is obliged to sell the rooms and restaurants of the Agamim Hotel to various market segments. The manager is Sharon Sabah. Budgetary Office is in charge of all the monetary services of the Hotel and is controlled by Ms Myraad. Food and Beverages manager is Mr. Avi Bendavid who is the responsible for all dining rooms and restaurants’ work. Mr.Shlomi Baron is Avi’s assistant to fulfill this responsibility. My direct manager in Chill out Bar is Mr. Orel who takes care about both employees and guests friendly. My dining room manager is Elias Suleiman. The cookers’ chef is Mr Alexandr, known with special tastes all the Eilat. Pool manager is Mr. Sally who controls lifeguards and Pool team related to necessary issues of swimming pools. Maintenance department is the service department which fixes the spoilt or broken equipments, removes mechanical problems and the manager is Mr. Yakoh Biton. Housekeeping …show more content…
External and Internal dimensions
External dimensions. The main external factor that affects to Istotel hotel chain is the level of competition. The main competitors of Isrotel hotel chain in Eilat are Fattal-Maint, Hilton hotels, Dan hotels, Astral chains and Rimonim hotel chains. At the same time, in comparison with another hotel chains, Isrotel hotels have a better reputation among the guests because of individual service, smiley and kind employees, operational rooms. Another external dimension that affects to hotel’s operation is political factor. The main political factors that could influence the Isrotel Hotel chain are danger of terrorism, international relations and the political climate in popular tourist places. In comparison with another cities, Eilat is the safest city of Israel. However, Tel-Aviv and Jerusalem faced terroristic attacks. There are also some economic factors that have impact on Isrotel hotels. One of them is the high exchange rate for U.S dollar. This fact encourages Americans to visit Israel. However, the same fact discourages Europeans to take vacation in
The manager mostly lets his employees work without constantly watching over their shoulders. He has faith that everyone knows what to do. Decisions are made and solved by a collaborative process. The manager gathers groups of people and talks about what needs to get
Virginia Beach is one of the most demanded vacation destinations in the US. Due to this, they have a lot of beach hotels that offer cheap and economical prices, especially during the summer season. Nothing is more enjoyable and relaxing than to swim in the beach. You can go on and enjoy your best holiday without spending a great amount of money. Hence, Virginia Beach is one of the most demanded vacation destinations in the US.
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Weaknesses: 1. The high seasonal dependency for most of the hotel facilities. 2. The imbalanced market coverage and business portfolio. 3.
Their strategic position is to provide a leisure experience for people who came to our hotel and enjoy the holiday. The firm’s CSF are strengthening electronic relationships with distributors, improving its trademark hospitality and customer service, better managing inventory yield, and better integrating its international properties were crucial stepping stones to the firm’s continued success. (Outrigger case 103&117) 2 How well are the current IS resource serving the needs of Outrigger Hotels and Resorts?
They have two restaurant and executive lounge in their hotel chain. The hotel offer donations for National Kidney Fund. Through economic factor, business examines the economic issues that are bound to have an impact on the company. They use their advertising for newspaper with target of Malay people. This hotel targets Chinese, Myanmar and Indian people.
The duty managers are professionals in managing their duties while ensuring that team leaders are trained, validated, and participative. The managers of every store conduct daily and weekly audits for identifying and resolving issues within the
They take all the information about the department and team performance then the manager has to be the knowledge of management through that they have to set the goal for the organisations. This both well helps in taking the decision of goal and mission in the organisation. Information and knowledge for operational decision: this decision has to be taken by the lower level management. Their manager has to know the information about the production work and the information about workers and there need for performing there effective. Knowledge should bee needed of the production and operations work.
Weighted average cost of capital for Marriot Corporation: In order to determine cost of capital, first we need to find out cost of equity and cost of debt. For determining the cost of equity we need to determine the beta for the target leverage ratio. According to the information provided by exhibit 3 equity beta is estimated at 0.97 when equity-to-total capital ratio is 0.59. Therefore we need to find unlevered beta value so that we can find firm’s equity beta at the desired leverage ratio as mentioned in Table A. Tax bracket of 44% is used based on ratio of income taxes to income before income taxes (175.9/398.9) in Exhibit 1.
CASE JOURNAL-ROSEWOOD HOTEL& RESORTS Rosewood’s management is on the right track to increasing brand awareness among its customers by pursuing the corporate branding strategy. Implementation of the corporate branding strategy not only increases the number of repeat visitors to the hotels, but also increases the gross profits made by the company by $2,599,000. Corporate branding has a positive impact on the customer lifetime value as well. Rosewood Hotels & Resorts is a privately owned hotel management company that is known for its unique properties like The Carlyle and the Mansion on Turtle Creek that differentiates the company from other luxury hotel competitors.
The Five Competitive Forces of Industry will influence prices, costs and investment (Porter, 1980). The potential retaining of customers, profitability of a holiday inn can be determined by being aware of the strengths and weaknesses of the hotel industry. (Figure 2.2: Porter’s Five Forces Model (Source: Adapted after Porter,2008) Porter’s 5 model helps in success of Holiday inn between suppliers and buyers. Giving customers the service they are looking for, acquire customers, retain customers and looking externally how the competitors are doing is very important. To ignore the power of customer relationship is not an option.
Considering all these factors, we can clearly say that hotels belong to monopolistic competition. Hotels are price makers, meaning that there is not one market price, at which all the suppliers have to sell
Loyalty b. Profitability c. Growth Organization Strategy of Marriott International Inc. Marriott is a worldwide franchiser and operator of hotels .They have unique competency in their business. They used various strategies which made them distinctive from other players of hospitality.
Every industry to include the hospitality industry is impacted by external factors which directly influence organizational behavior and decision making. There are numerous factors to be considered, but political, economic, and social are three of the most influential. These outside factors sway managerial operational decisions daily regarding personnel, spending, policy, and short-term and long-term strategic planning concerning both core and exterior operations. As within every industry, the hospitality industry has unmanageable elements that affect management or ownership of hospitality establishments (Lewis 2017). Understanding these factors is important because it provides an opportunity for contingency planning (Lewis, 2017).
Intercontinental Hotels is using the market differentiation strategy in segmenting its market into appropriate market divisions based on characteristics of the varying needs and characteristics of the target markets. The company has more than 3500 hotels in over 100 countries with around 535000 guest rooms. It has established a substantial customer base with over 120million customers whose preferences vary based on price and quality expectations. The Intercontinental group is made up of many brands such as the Intercontinental Hotels and Resorts, Holiday Inn Garden Court, Crown Plaza Hotels & Resorts, SunSpree, Holiday Inn, Staybridge Suites, Holiday Inn Family Suites Resort, Holiday Inn Express, Holiday Inn Select, Holiday Inn, and Candlewood