The hospitality industry is highly competitive and the interaction between staff and guests is critical we human beings communicate all day every day we spend our working hours sending or receiving messages: speaking, listening, writing, reading, pushing keys on computers. Since we communicate so much, we ought to be pretty good at it. But we’re not. As hospitality worker we need to communicate successfully not only with the customers but also with our co-worker. It is important to develop literacy within the workplace and assist employees in improving their ability to become effective communicator using the Standard English in written and oral utterances.
Customer cares much about the position that the hotel places them into, therefore, to show customer that the hotel is willingly and readily to make improvement for them can increase customer satisfaction and maintain better relationship with customer as well as their loyalty. Anderson and Srinivasan (2003) stated that the company that without maintaining customer loyalty may experience a failure on the business. This means, customer loyalty should be consider as a long term investment. Service providers should maintain a good relationship between the company and customer for the reason to foster a loyalty basis. The importance of creating
Sustainability In Hospitality Sustainability is one of the single most important global issues facing the world. A clear understanding of the issues surrounding climate change, global warming, air and water pollution, ozone depletion, deforestation, the loss of biodiversity, and global poverty is essential for every future manager in the hospitality industry. Present and future hospitality executives need to know how sustainable management systems can be integrated into their businesses while maintaining and hopefully improving the bottom line. Over the past several decades, hoteliers have turned their focus to the importance of sustainability in the hospitality industry as it relates to hotel development and operations, including the environmental, economic and social impact. Sustainability is one of the most important issues currently facing our world.The hospitality sector has historically had a dramatic environmental impact through energy and water consumption, use of consumable and durable goods, and solid and hazardous waste creation.
Since, business operating in hospitality industry is mainly service oriented which is the crucial aspect that creates market value of the firms. However, the sales from the inventory and other aspects are not denoted with the costs of goods but rather depreciation expenses. The nature of operation affects the expenses and revenue generating streams of the company due to which there are different ratios than that of other financial ratio. However, even the ratios used in the hospitality industry are difficult to understand because of its cost control methods and purchasing procedures that impact the revenues, forecasting and other scheduling (Johathan, 2005). Therefore, the services and products offered by a firm in a hospitality industry are different due to which they are more likely to fall in different segment of hospitality industry depending on the revenue streams of the companies.
The process by which customers evaluate a purchase, thereby determining satisfaction and the likelihood of repurchase, is what is important to all marketers but especially to service marketers because, unlike their manufacturing counterparts, they have fewer objective measures of quality by which to judge their productions. In the operating-hospitality sector, customer research is still lacking, with most feedback from the customers discussing the experience they had at the time. Today, service quality is approached in the hospitality industry by not only management staff collecting information at the table based upon the customer experience, it now can consist of determining the degree of satisfaction of the user of the service. You are asked to fill out a short survey at the end of each transaction whether it’s directly at the site or via email which can be found at the end of your receipt. In the hospitality industry, a lot of different services are being offered to customers, the impact comes back to the quality performance of the service, making it more difficult to measure.
The efficiency and effectiveness of hospitality enterprise is determined by how the interior design is been packaged. Every design aspect from flooring to the ceiling, a tiny furniture piece, a cushion duvet or a colour tone affects the total atmosphere in interior. Lighting and colour pallet is the rhyme utilized in hospitality interior design. As indicated in softroom studio profile(2014) the feelings of the user and his mentality influenced via the colours in hospitality interior design. All human beings start on the first need and upward push to the better needs as the prior ones are satisfied.
robertko60@yahoo.com, teutamatematika@hotmail.com, linditamukli@gmail.com Abstract In order to be successful in the complex market of hotel services, you need to do more than trying to attract new customers. Hotel managers also need to focus on keeping existing customers by implementing a successful effective policy of evaluation, satisfaction and fulfillment of their demands and expectation. Hotel industry services, rating and customer service satisfaction are almost built on the basis of service quality. A successful approach to service management focused on customer satisfaction can improve his loyalty and improve the positive image. For this reason, assessment and customer service hospitality will help determine their choice of the future.
To identify the unique characteristics of the hospitality and tourism product and discussing their implications in achieving service excellence in the Hospitality Industry. Introduction Service excellence is an extremely important for Hospitality and Tourism Industry as the cornerstone of the foundation of this business. Business depends on customers, they are number one for prosperity and for future development of a customer- focused Industry. Quoting Sarah Cook, that most people’s definitions will be based on personal experience: “A definition of good service is meeting customer’s expectations. Excellent service is exceeding customer expectations.
The sharp increase in the number of tourists, business travelers, and students participating in international educational programs is reflected in the change of the hotel sector. With a growing number of people, traveling abroad is increasing and the number of accommodation facilities. To counter the competition, running a successful business in a saturated market, companies need to offer to increase power, to expand. Hotel chains or networks are the most efficient form of organization of the hotel business at the present stage. Proper management of the process of formation of hotel chains in the market of tourist services is an essential factor for the success of economic activity in this area.
Similarly, Callan (1995) pointed out that the star rating is not the most widely used to assess the quality of hotel services, as other instruments are used as guides or ranks in travel magazines. The quality certifications are another way to assess the quality of the hotel and also impact on the performance of hotels. Nicolau and Sellers (2010) found out that the hotel chains implemented the ISO’s 9000 have got a positive effect in the market. Consumers evaluate the quality of a particular hotel with these certifications when they choose a