CRM may be especially important to the hotel industry where most companies offer just about the core products and services. Regardless of being differentiated by their star rating, most hotels tend to offer pretty much the same core products and services: accommodation encompassed by a scope of food and beverage services (Choi et al., 2001). To acquire loyalty and to exceed other competitors, hotel providers must have the capacity to get abnormal amounts of customer satisfaction for the service supplied (Dominici et al., 2010).CRM usage and utilization of the instrument allows building a sustainable competitive advantage in a varying environment (Jones et al., 2004).
The Ritz‐Carlton Hotel Company L.L.C. is the guardian company of the Ritz‐Carlton
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Ritz‐Carlton International is the leading hospitality management company. Its political, financial, social and technological environment analysis are as follows:
Ritz‐Carlton has perceived the value of laws and regulations of the individual country. The political situation in every nation is distinctive and must be addressed properly. Ritz‐Carlton has taken after convention composed by the individual country like; no smoking policy, non-fat food, low calorie diet and so on (Michelli, 2009).
The rising economy of the Asia and other developing area is encouraging Ritz‐Carlton to invest more in these regions. Then again, the expanding cost of fuel is urging it to concentrate on clean energy and to be more environments friendly which additionally support in controlling the expense of the operations (Michelli,
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The practicality and potential benefit of a hotel can be resolved for the Ritz- Carlton as follows:
The purchaser power in the Hospitality business is moderate. As the Ritz‐Carlton has solid brand recognition, it can draw in new guest effectively with little effort of marketing and advancements. Ritz‐Carlton is giving quality service reliably and giving the best experience to its guest at all level (Kirby, 2007).
The supplier power is moderate for Ritz‐Carlton. Property owners, designers, planners, real estate organizations, advertising firms, law offices and information technology service and equipment suppliers are some case of supplier in the business. Food and drink supplier, utility supplier and work supplier are likewise key player, as they are real stakeholder in minimizing operational expense of operation (Alomtairi, 2009).
Threat of new Entrants for Ritz‐Carlton is significantly high because of the generous development in hospitality industry in recent years. The unfavorable financial state of some European countries additionally has lowered the estimation of land and real estate and it is very likely to attract new businessperson in the hospitality industry. The economic growth in South Asia and Asia Pacific is additionally maximizing the threat of new participants (Alomtairi,
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?
Background & History Hyatt Hotels Corporation is involved in the franchising, management, development and ownership of Hyatt-branded resorts, vacation & residential ownership properties, and hotels internationally. Hyatt was established by Jay Pritzker in 1957 (Hyatt Hotels, 2015). Hyatt Hotels Corporation, once called as Global Hyatt, is a worldwide hospitality organization. The organization is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois and utilizes 46,000 individual employees but now this organization is gaining a major part of its business from their branches in the United Arab Emirates (Hyatt Reports, 2015) as UAE alone accounts for approximately 30% of the entire Hyatt Hotels Corporation system. (HYATT, 2015)
There are different strategies that must be considered by the organisations operating in hospitality industry. The contributions made by the firm donate towards the performance and achievement of the company. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the strategies of the hotel, which serves as the basis of success. This paper is divided into five different tasks each of which is focusing on various aspects of the hotels performance. The organisation that is selected in order to answer the tasks is InterContinental Hotel Group.
Marriott describes its business model, brands, senior leaders, and deeply-ingrained service culture as having firmly established Marriott as a leading performer (2013, para 1-2). Another source describes Marriott International as a company that takes pride in the fact that they have always taken care of their customers and employees above all else, living up to their slogan of “People First” (Addonizio, Mathos, Khalil, & Ortiz, F., 2012, para 1). Essentially, Marriott has gone to great lengths to focus their business efforts and strategy on providing the best working environment and hotel stay for employees and customers alike.
Specify organisational standards of customer service So the customer segment of the Ritz-Carlton is a wealthy clientele who has very high expectations since they use to get upscale products because they are ready to pay more to have more. Therefore, the differentiation of the Ritz-Carlton is made on an efficient and effective customer service. As we know the needs are general but the wants are specific, so the companies have to make the difference so as to become the customer’s wants. For example, customers will need to book an hotel room but some customers will want to book an Ritz-Carlton hotel room.
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.
Franchising and decision variables The article in Franchising versus company-run operations: Modal choice in the global hotel sector discusses the various aspects considered by well-established hotels when they face the dilemma of whether to franchise a new hotel in a new geography or actually own the hotel themselves. The article is helpful in drawing the parallels for franchising decisions in service industry and especially pretty apt for the services which include high initial capital investment. The authors (F J Contractor & S K Kundu) borrow the definition of franchising from Caves & Murphy 1976 at the onset of the article and visualize the prospective franchisee as the sales agent or distributor of the brand owner.
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.
The amounts of benefits companies are finding through the “implementation of sustainable polices and practices by staff and guest” (Eds.a.ebscohost.com.proxyiub.uits.iu.edu, 2015) this is the mian focus on who has the resources to make hotels more green but this is also who is benefiting by ensuring that the standards of management and quality of hotel is up to par. The problem with improving quest expectations while performing well executed practices is finding that people are even less sustainable when in hotels then they are their homes because of the idea that there are unlimited resources. When you look at the ownership of hotel companies, there are so many middle guys that are helping financially and building financial models to see what more there is to “consider that just the first cost of the installing systems and the energy consumed.” (Eds.a.ebscohost.com.proxyiub.uits.iu.edu, 2015) The purpose to making the most out of the energy already accessible unlike other countries would only benefit by using the tools that drives efficient cuts on cost design, that is externally affecting the physical environment but will internally increase profitability and quality by using a maintenance model and energy driven
The elements cannot be controlled, their effects can be diminished with careful preparation and anticipation (Lewis, 2017). These external dynamics cannot be underestimated, overlooked, or avoided as laws, policy, and regulations change, the economy fluctuates and disposable income varies, and societal views continue to evolve around the globe. These external factors can be mitigated to limit their impact within an organization to some degree by comprehensive strategic forecasting and flexibility. Therefore, let’s take a closer look at some of the political factors impacting the hospitality industry.
The purpose of this report is to find solutions to the prevailing issues in Ritz Carlton like an increase in absenteeism, demotivation, a decrease in productivity level as well as discrimination, underpay and conflicts arising between team members. For the purpose of this assignment, the focus will be on providing recommendations to improve the culture, working environment, structure, motivation of employees and strengthen team-working. Ritz Carlton is using a hierarchical and centralised structure, first of all, different type of structures will be proposed to find the right one.
To be sucessful in this industry we need a lot of and loyal customers. The loyal customers will keep coming back to the same place if they satisfied through the place they have visited. Customer loyalty give the most important impact towards hospitality and tourism industry. “Hospitality refers
The Hotel Concept selected for this report is the new innovative hotel concept developed by YO founder Simon Woodroffe and YOTEL
4.0 Implementation 4.1 Broader perspective Globalization is affected by various factors that drive towards its existence and formation in the society and a set of these macroeconomic factors. As per this analysis we can get an overview of the current economy of the country that helps the researcher to make relevant suggestions and recommendations that can benefit the economy as well as society to make them believe and trust that the globalization enhances their behaviour and life style. PEST Analysis: Source: Visual.ly website PEST Analysis of Saudi Arabia Political environment Giddens and Griffiths (2006, p. 59) states that mainly there are three reasons why politics has become one of the main drivers of globalization.