Model answers to short cases Acme Whistles 1. What is the overlap between operations‚ marketing and product/service development at Acme Whistles? The simple answer to this question is‚ ‘There is a very significant overlap between these functions’. The underlying question is ‘Why’? Partly‚ the reason is size. As Simon Topman says in the example‚ small companies cannot afford specialist functions so at a managerial level everyone does everything to some extent. This becomes especially true when
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INTRODUCTION TO THE Hospitality Industry SEVENTH EDITION Clayton W. Barrows Professor Department of Hospitality Management University of New Hampshire Tom Powers Professor Emeritus School of Hospitality and Tourism Management University of Guelph John Wiley & Sons‚ Inc. This book is printed on acid-free paper. Copyright © 2009 by John Wiley & Sons‚ Inc. All rights reserved Published by John Wiley & Sons‚ Inc.‚ Hoboken‚ New Jersey. Published simultaneously in Canada. No part of
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A marketing plan’s elements may vary based on the organization and its industry‚ but readers still expect to see certain common elements. You have a product people love and you understand who the people are that love it. Now would be a great time to build a marketing plan. The plan will change and evolve over time but having a structure helps to make sure that your marketing spend is aligning with your goals without being completely ad-hoc‚ spray and pray of the day. The plan shouldn’t be a massive
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PART A CHAPTER 1 INDUSTRY PROFILE History of Hotel Industry: A hotel is an establishment that provides paid lodging‚ usually on a short-term basis. Hotels often provide a number additional guest services such as restaurant‚ a swimming pool or childcare. Some hotel has conference services and meeting rooms and encourages groups to hold conventions and meeting at their location. Revenues of hotel and restaurant (H&R) industry in India during the financial year 2000-2011 was INR 804.32 billion
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A marketing plan on Raffles Hotel 1 1. Introduction 1 2. Brief company overview 2 3. External audit 2 3.1 The macro-environment analysis with PESTE method 2 3.2 The industry dynamics analysis with Porter’s five forces 3 3.3 The evaluation of key successful factors of external factor 4 4. Internal audit 5 4.1 Raffles’ strategic segmentation 5 4.2 Raffles’ market positioning 6 4.3 Strengths-weaknesses analysis of current resources and competences 7 4.4 Value chain and
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merger of Life Style resorts and Home Away Hotels which is a very large chain of hotels in North America. There were problems with the reservation system at all the hotels. Each hotel had its own software and hardware. Each hotel had its own reservation system which was difficult for the company to produce any reports to the management. It was also difficult for the marketing and branding of the company. They have decided to get ERP system for the total hotels and resorts. Finally they have to decide
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Hotel and Restaurant Research Strategy Restaurant strategies to attract customers Impact of incentives to employees Effective Customer care Hotel guest satisfaction Factors to develop tourism in your place Problems that occur in hotel and restaurant Hospitality Generally‚ hospitality refers to jobs in the hospitality industry‚ such as hotels‚ restaurants‚ catering‚ resorts and casinos as well as other hospitality positions that deal with tourists. Hospitality involves the relationship
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Rosewood does have loyal customers‚ these customers are limited to the one unique destination Rosewood hotel as they do not identify with Rosewood brand. Whereas the Rosewood strategy for individualistic properties based on the local area‚ local history and local staff has been successful in bringing in customers‚ it has failed in retaining customers. This can be related to the very basic concept that people are limited in the trips that they will make to one location in one year. To be able to successfully
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Boutique hotels focus on the experiential nature of service delivery. Factors helping to deliver upon the experience include a cap on the number of rooms‚ a design or cultural aspect to the property and attention to the location of the property. The subsector however‚ lacks a singular definition. This is in part due to structural changes undergone by the subsector since conception of the concept. The subsector evolved from comprising of independently owned properties to establishment of
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Purchase a premier hotel brands internationally: Change to Marriott brand or Maintain brand as an operating subsidiary? Why to rebrand - • Name might not be doing justice to the overall experience. Making such a change is especially important when a hospitality property has lost effectiveness in serving its market. The previous brand might not be providing service so there can be misperception about the Marriott brand • Rebranding might help to reposition the hotel and properly brand it.
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