There are 12 leading hotel chains which have various branches within those chains. Each accommodate different numbers of guests and different types of guests. Before 2008 there had been massive expansion in preparation for a large upturn in the industry however when the expansions were finished the market was in withdrawal leading to the largest downturn in the lodging industry. The major economic characteristics influencing the lodging industry have to do with business meetings and conference related travel taking 40% of the business in the whole industry of 2010. The hotel industry is dominated by large branded hotel chains that react to industry factors similarly, this is one of the reasons there was a large downturn. It can be argued the industry predicts its growth in correlation with real GDP.…
Market structure within the hotel industry has a few unique characteristics. All firms in the hotel industry operate with the same parameters and restrictions such that they operate within a fixed capacity, services are perishable and non-recoverable once the opportunity has passed, and an extremely labor intensive structure. Unlike manufacturing or production industries, hotels operate a fixed number of rooms, and without new construction or expansion of an existing hotel, they cannot increase capacity to capture a fluctuating…
The UK hotel industry for the purpose of this paper will follow the most commonly set boundaries which refer to the industry being inclusive of all hotels, motels and inns with or without restaurants, conference centres and other hospitality related facilities with operations in the UK. The structure of the hotel industry can be divided into two major groups: the hotel chains and the independent small hotels (Brooks and Weatherston, 2000; and Medlik and Ingram, 2003). Hotel establishments may also be categorized into:…
Bollman Hotels has net revenue of $100,000,000 with a 15% growth expected within the first year. A workforce of 25,000 employees with plans to increase by 20% with the expansion to India and the current employee turnover is 5%. Based on this information and the stage of their business development, they will need to enter the Indian market fiercely, but with as little interruption to the tourism industry as possible. Therefore, Bollman will have to be competitive and establish a premier hotel chain that will lure international travelers seeking the exotic, heterogeneous, and lavish experience by offering elitism while on business or pleasure (Incredible India, n.d.).…
challenges and threats to Club Med, for example, as a result of airline deregulation, more and…
Our team chose the hotel industry in the United States for our economic analysis. The hotel business has existed since the earliest times, and has influenced the development of the economy since the founding of this country.…
* Manpower Issues: The Indian hospitality industry is labour-intensive, but the availability of trained chefs, managerial staff and other support staff is low. According to a study done by Ministry of tourism the current supply of skilled trained manpower is estimared to 9% of total manpower requirement. Given this shortfall of quality manpower requirements and the industry’s high attrition rate the cost of labour is high.…
The years 2007-08 and 2008-09 were boom for the hotel industry in national capital region of Delhi. The sector began the year 2008 on a strong note. Rising tourist inflow, higher occupancy and room rates continued to benefit the hotel players. In the first four months of the year, the tourist arrivals were higher by 11.7% YoY. Existing hotel companies, new foreign players and real estate players continued with their expansion plans. Prospects were looking good, until the sector faced terror attack in Mumbai and recession hit.…
According to Intercontinental Hotel Group Website (2009), “the global hotel market has an estimated room capacity of 18 million rooms.” On this global hotel market, brand hotel has 45% of the total market. Indeed, the six major international hotel groups are estimated to 41% of the branded rooms and 18% of the total market. Promotional strategies and plans are critical successful factors for International hotel groups in this market share.…
According to the Business Expectancy Survey, 39% of hoteliers expect growth in business by end March 2011. In fact, the employment rate for the industry is expected to increase by 19% (Sing Stats, 2010). With such evident growth in the tourism industry, the hotel industry will inevitably experience progressive growth in years to come. Furthermore, The Business Times (2010) stated that “Singapore’s hotel industry is among the two best performers in…
The Times of India by Rachna Singh, Jaipur, in a bid to attract international tourists is gearing up with a host of new properties across differentsegments. [Hospitality Biz India: Dec. 2009]Hotel industry as well as tourism industry has a basic backbone of the government support without which it won’t be able to sustain the competitive world. Government charges huge amount of tax from the star and luxury category of hotels and thus has a huge impact with thepolitical changes that occur. Any small step taken by the government bychanging some law it would seriously affect hotel industry. The hotelindustry is getting huge incentives and the state governments aresupporting the development of the hotels and their growth. This infactanswers the question how are Indian Hotels are planning to expand in theeconomic crunch time. The Terror attack on the city’s [ Mumbai ] renowned hotels Taj and theOberoi’s had brought a concern on the faces of the hoteliers with asubstantial drop in foreign travellers to India taking the terror threat intoaccount.…
reader. We then look into India’s hospitality Industry and how it is growing as compared ot the…
The hotel sector in Sri Lanka had been performing below its potential for the last few years mainly due to the unfavourable security condition that prevailed in the island, natural disasters like tsunami and negative travel advisories. Hotels suffered for years with low earnings owing to low arrivals, rising fuel and other costs such as interest rates(Stockbrokers, 2010).The below figure 2.1 shows that it’s perceived that there would be great potential in the hotel sector investments in Sri Lanka with the war coming to an end as 1/3 rd of the island adding to the countries tourism scope.…
Hotels industry: The Moscow’s Mayor has decided that he wanted to turn the government building into more hotels. The government which is situated in the middle of the city is to be considering into turning it into a hotel as they believe that this will breathe new life to Moscow. By adding more hotels they hope to succeed in investing in the top-end and mid-end hotel and hostels. In Moscow there are already 40,375 hotel rooms with 27% being international hotel chain; however they still want to increase their number of international hotel further. Over the pass years their number of international hotels has increase as there was 11% increase in 2010 and 10% in addition in 2011. The number of occupancy have increase by 3.5% as there was 62.3% rate in 2010 but in 2011 they have the total of 64.5% occupancy rate and their daily rate have also increase by 9.4%. The hotel industry is developing to attract more tourists by adding additional services such as shuttles service to airport, complimentary WIFI, Complimentary mini bar and various special offers etc.…
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