DeVry University HOTEL AUTOMATION Managerial Applications of Information Systems Francisco E. Lopez Contents INTRODUCTION 3 COMPANY BACKGROUND 4 THE PROBLEM 5 HIGH LEVEL SOLUTION 5 BENEFITS OF SOLVING THE PROBLEM 6 TECHNICAL APPROACH 6 Guest Rooms 7 Administrative Components 8 BUSINESS PROCESS CHANGES 10 Business practices that will enhance the solution 11 HIGH LEVEL IMPLEMENTATION 11 SUMARY 12 REFERENCES 13 INTRODUCTION The purpose of this proposal is to
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Seronay Date: February 7‚ 2013 Chapter 1 Introduction A hotel is an establishment that provides paid lodging on a short-termbasis. The provision of basic accommodation‚ in times past‚ consisting onlyof a room with a bed‚ a cupboard‚ a small table and a washstand has largely been replaced by rooms with modern facilities‚ including en-suitebathrooms and air conditioning or climate control. Today‚ most of the Hotels provide goods and services using computersystem. It helps to perform
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MIX……………………………………………….61-70 4. LEGAL FRAMEWORK……..71-72 5. CONCLUSION………………..73-74 6. BIBLIOGRAPHY……………….75 1. INTRODUCTION ‘Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him’ SIVAS is a 4 stars hotel located in Ciutadella‚ a municipality belonging to the west extreme of Menorca Island. It is so close to the beach‚ situated on a cliff‚ being our customer‚ captivated by the sound of the waves from every corner of SIVAS. All the senses are awakened
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October 14‚ 2012 Abstract The Hotel Escargo has asked for a summary of the observations found for improvement. In this report the hotel needs will be summarized and a job design and measurement strategy for ensuring improvement will be proposed. Introduction The Hotel Escargo has many services that need improving such as check-in and check-out service‚ multi-lingual staff‚ complementary concierge desk‚ room service‚ local area transportation‚ and amenities. Hotel needs and rank of importance
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About Colonnade Hotel and Resort The Colonnade is a 250-room‚ 4-star hotel that caters to business and leisure travelers. The hotel has been open for ten years and recently went through a complete renovation. It is centrally located‚ close to both the major office centers and the well-known city parks and museums. The hotel has received fairly good reviews on TripAdvisor and other travel sites and has a high rate of repeat guests. In addition to the 250 rooms‚ the hotel has approximately 50
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Part 4: Recommendation for Rosewood to improve CLV The fundamental Idea behind Customer Lifetime Value is to maximize profits per customer. While 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
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The Hotel Industry Overview The hospitality industry covers a diverse range of establishments providing hospitality services in the form of accommodation‚ meals and drinks. A large proportion of people working in the hospitality industry are employed part-time and this is an increasing trend. It is estimated that by the year 2007 about 55% of the people employed in the hospitality industry could be working full-time and 55% part-time. This reflects the realities of the industry‚ where there is
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customer needs and the vast amount of product offerings. One facet of market segmentation in the hotel industry is the unique consumer segment. The idea of a unique consumer segment is relatively new in the industry which opens the need for repositioning. By identifying a unique consumer segment‚ a hotel can focus on and penetrate a non-traditional market encompassing guest centered focus hotels. Traditional customer segmentation approaches will be replaced by personalized service spectrums and
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very well known but it was not clear what is the best corporate branding strategy without destroying the value of each individually branded hotel and loosing a customer. A new branding strategy proposing an increased customer profitability and lifetime value is needed. Company. Rosewood is a 25 years old luxury private hotel management company having 12 hotels in different countries. The company is known by unique‚ “one-of-a-kind properties” with very luxury style. The total rooms capacity worldwide
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Sustainability in Hotels the hospitality sector are relatively straightforward to record and interpret (e.g. occupancy percentages‚ capitalization rates‚ RevPAR‚ etc.)‚ sustainability has remained intrinsically difficult to quantify. Sustainability issues touch on nearly all aspects of hotel ownership and management‚ necessitating the alignment of environmental‚ social‚ and financial factors to promote responsible business operations over time. Despite the lack of clear‚ universally accepted metrics
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