My ideal company, so the one that I would like to work for and the one that has some principles that I share, is the Hilton Worldwide. This company is one of the most famous and one of largest hospitality company in the world. It was classified as the 38th largest private company in the world by Forbes and it owns over four thousand hotels in more than ninety countries. Completing tasks and completing them well is not the only thing that good workers should do. Good workers should also share some fundamental principles of the company they are working for, otherwise they will never give their best.
Lazarova et al (2013) and Holden (2000) mention that a number of properties have achieved a success in reducing the wastage as well as discharge of water. Best way of reducing water wastage is to direct the water that has been treated for agricultural purposes to the municipal corporations and neighboring areas. 16) According to you, is the environment management program of Hyatt hotels a smaller responsibility of the CSR scheme of the organisation? For Hyatt Hotels environment management is a part of the CSR strategy of the company. Exclusively, it is seen that the ecological habits observed by the property portray the communal accountability for the community generally.
REPORT 1 HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY ITC HOTELS 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
Furthermore, Hilton company is always up to date with the environmental factors that could influencing the company. In the past few years they have made a lot of profits and becomes the most recognized hotel branch in the world. With more than 300,000 team members around the world, they brings the best quality of hospitality forward and are proudly to serve this hospitality to every loyal
Environment position (Sustainability) As a leading hotel chain, with more than six hundred properties, remarkably operated in the scale and luxury hotel sectors, Hyatt has clearly recognized the hostile outputs of climate change on the overall hospitality industry. This fact can be noticed from the highlighted sustainability vision that the company has stated until now, especially in the past few years; and, then, from its real projects regarding environmental protection within the Hyatt whole business dynamics. For instance, in 2014, the hotel has shown forth a set of conservational sustainability strategies (both short and long term) with a forecast to 2020, focusing on three main concepts: “Use Resources Thoughtfully”, “Build Smart”, “Innovate
The luxury brand hotels in Singapore are well-known and have already built their brand value among tourists. Tourists would prefer a well-known hotel rather than Corinthia Hotels although they provide the similar services. Brand awareness of Corinthia Hotels is a big issue when they develop in Singapore. To build up the brand awareness
3. Recruitment Practices Find Process by steps To design the pipeline of future leaders, Hilton Worldwide offers the experience of hospitality industry to current and graduating students. Students might consider the position of the entry-level professional or the participation in full-time internship opportunities. There are several programs offered for internship positions such as corporate internships, property internships, and revenue management internships. The successful candidates will be placed into the management training program lasting ten weeks where a future Hilton team member will undergo the accelerated training in all areas of hotel management, and at a later stage the proficiency-oriented training in the area of specialization.
There is no doubt that the world is changing from a social, economic and environmental point of view. For these reasons, modifying our habits is no longer an option, but a must; if we continue to consume at this speed we would need the resources of three Planet’s Earths in order to survive. Companies, such as the hospitality industry, have a key-role to play in the developing world because of their economic significance and their environmental impact (Chung and Parker, 2010). Luckily, in recent years, this industry is promoting sustainable alternatives to apply in their hotels and resorts around the world. A perfect example is the AccorHotels Company, which has developed a sustainable strategy called PLANET 21.
Sustainable hospitality bring a lot of benefits to the business: -Programs can give a great competitive advantage -Financial savings -One of the competitive advantages the hotel would have if it engages in environmental programs would be the advantage of being recognized for their green efforts and by generating motivation and an incentive in the employees to reach a common purpose, since financial savings are transmitted into cash or other kinds of rewards. -Customer loyalty: Customers base their loyalty and decisions on service, location and amenities and it may help if they see that the hotel keeps up with the trends and the newest innovations to satisfy the needs of the guests and society around them. -Risk management and preventing:Hotels must foresee future managerial and administrative changes and apply resourcefulness to reduce the possible financial and pricey effects of developing regulations. Some of the risks include: -Control of water and land contamination -Air and noise contamination management -Waste management -Natural disaster actions Corporate social responsibility
This was supported by the fact that merely 5.7% of the luxury hotels were fully implementing IAT. Due to the lack of a unified standard and prematurity of IAT, managers may believe future changes of IAT are imminent and therefore a waste of investment. Furthermore, most luxury hotels are being operated through management companies which implement a certain IS to manage the hotel chains. Empirically, the decision to upgrade the current operating systems in hotels to a new version is being made carefully by management companies and may take long time to adopt the new technology. With these rationales, hotel managers may prefer to wait until success is proven and the direction in which IAT develops.