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The concept of hospitality exchange, also known as "accommodation sharing", "hospitality services" (short "hospex"), and "home stay networks", "home hospitality" ("hoho"), refers to centrally organized social networks of individuals, generally travelers, who offer or seek accommodation without monetary exchange. These services generally connect users via the internet.
In 1949 Bob Luitweiler founded the first hospitality service called Servas Open Doors as a cross-national, nonprofit, volunteer-run organization advocating interracial and international peace. In 1965 John Wilcock set up the Traveler's Directory as a listing of his friends willing to host each other when traveling. In 1988, Joy Lily rescued the organization from imminent shutdown, forming Hospitality Exchange.
In 1966, a hospitality service for Esperanto speakers called Programo Pasporto was created. This became Pasporta Servo in 1974.
In 1977 U.S. President Jimmy Carter announced the formation of Friendship Force International, which has chapters in 57 countries today. In 2000 Veit Kuhne founded Hospitality Club, the first such Internet-based hospitality service. In 2004, Casey Fenton started CouchSurfing, which is now the largest hospitality exchange organization. In 2013 Mandy Rowe founded Broads Abroad Travel Network, which is the only online hospitality exchange network for women.
Sometimes it is the newest or least trained hospitality employee who has the last clear chance at saving guest relations. One employee becomes the face of your organization when things go wrong. This practical and memorable program is specifically designed to empower leisure and hospitality staff with a clear checklist of Customer Service Recovery tools and techniques. From showing empathy and truly listening, to exploring with permission phrases and presenting options, front-line hospitality employees will learn how to match the signals they send to guests with the words they say. A wide variety of realistic hospitality industry scenes, demonstrate the use of The Right Words at The Right Time, to over-come almost any service recovery challenge. This valuable training equips your staff w...
Hospitality & Customer Service It's about your mind set of willingness, and its dediacted for your work and your customer or guests. In an effort of • Using your capability and skills professionally to do the job for your customer or guest Make them smile & happy. Help them to achieve what they need. Relieve their stress. • Using Professionally and proper communication skills Performing your genuine culture Talk to them politely Professional & not in personal In the end, Hospitality & Customer Service is just an experience Hospitality & Customer Service is just an experience What your guest = Sees, Hear, Smells, Touch & Feels, Talks
Perfect service doesn't always mean a great experience. In order to have a truly exceptional guest experience, you must have both the service along with genuine hospitality. In Japanese culture, this is called OMOTENASHI.
Jan M. Smith, Founder and President of Inland Management Group, provides organizations and individual clients with invaluable outsourced Human Resource professional advice in the areas of Human Resource Management, Hospitality Operations, Training & Development, Employee Relations, and Recruitment. Jan is an energetic facilitator, speaker, and trainer for national and international corporate and non-profit organizations and has shared her passion for service excellence through her support of the Tourism/Hospitality/Service industries in Temecula, California for the past 15 years. She is on the Board of Directors for the Temecula Valley Convention and Visitors Bureau. Her non-profit initiative, Begin Again Career Transition Services (BACTS) program, has provided outplacement/career trans...
Created by Hilton Worldwide, Points of Light and the Taproot Foundation, Hospitality + Service is designed to help organizations enhance client experiences by improving communication and connections with clients, creating warm and welcoming environments and effectively managing challenging situations. Learn more at www.hiltonworldwide.com/hospitality+service In Module 1 of Hospitality + Service we discuss the fundamental principles of hospitality and how you can utilize client feedback to improve your service over time.
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International Hospitality Service Program incorporating SIT30713 Certificate III in Hospitality The exclusive program is designed to develop frontline food and beverage service skills for work in luxury, five and six-star properties. http://tafegoldcoast.edu.au/study-with-us/study-areas/international-hospitality/
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Speakers: Mr. Gerald Lawless - President and Group Chief Executive Officer, Jumeirah Group - United Arab Emirates Mr. Dillip Rajakarier - Chief Exective Officer of Hospitality, Minor Hotel Group - Thailand Highlights: The winning formula: Happy employees + happy guests = huge profits "I want the Government of the Future to be as close to its citizens as hotels" -- His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Customer service is the core mission of the leading hospitality organizations around the world. Addressing one of the key challenges to governments worldwide, Gerald Lawless, President and Group Chief Executive Officer, Jumeirah Group and Dillip Rajakarier Chief Executive Officer of Hospitality, Minor Hotel Group -- Thailand both talked about their experiences and insights on...
HotSOS, a Newmarket Hotel Service Optimization Solution integrates into BirchStreet’s platform. Together, the integration allows HotSOS to automate and add equipment to maintenance work orders while BirchStreet allows customers to track inventory of these parts, monitor par levels and reorder items through its procure-to-pay platform.
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This session explores the foundational skills required for entry-level employees in the service sector. In a dynamic discussion between the International Youth Foundation, Hilton Worldwide, and Accenture, learn how the service sector assesses their youth workforce needs as part of their global value chains and how leveraging expertise in training talent is applied to opening employment doors for youth. Drawing on insights from the reports, "Getting Youth in the Door: Defining Soft Skills Requirements for Entry-level Service Sector Jobs" and "Creating Opportunities for Youth in Hospitality," representatives from Hilton and Accenture discuss the skills needed by young people to excel in employment and what they often find lacking, and the various ways they are investing in programs to help ...
Webinar 4th June 2015 - 15:00 UTC +7 How to turn Tinglish into Service Industry English When learning a language, technology can only take us so far. We are often unaware of our own personal sound filters, this affects our ability to understand native speakers of a new language, it also makes it difficult for us to replicate those natural sounds into our own speech pattern. In this webinar you will learn some of the key sound filters for Thai speakers. We will also cover ‘Tinglish’ words that are commonly used in the service industry by Thai's. Finally we will tweak this ‘Thai Style’ of English into more internationally recognisable speech. Improving English in the service industry No experience is required.
Learn more: http://www.ecornell.com/certificates/hospitality-and-foodservice-management/hospitality-management/ Hospitality management involves you in every aspect of your property’s many moving parts. From the front of the house to the back, you need a firm grasp on finance, marketing, and managing employees. Build your credibility and learn how to manage a successful world-class operation with a foundation in essential industry best practices and skills. This certificate program consists of 6 two-week courses: 4 core and 2 elective courses. The core courses give you a foundation in hospitality management and cover interpreting financial statements, managing people, and the essentials of hospitality marketing and planning. Choose from 5 electives: Marketing, Revenue Management, Service ...
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Screencast 1 of 4: Introduction and context ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Environmental health practitioners (EHPs) in Northern Ireland can now access free advice on how to help hospitality and food service businesses tackle food waste with these four screencasts. Produced in association with the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH) and featuring WRAP experts, these screencasts offer a step-by-step guide enabling EHPs to provide businesses with advice on saving money by reducing waste and signposting them to relevant guidance. The screencasts: - give an overview of waste in the hospitality and food service (HaFS) sector; - identify food ...
This video was prepared and issued by the Directorate General of Research and Training of the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism. The purpose of this video is to develop knowledge and skills of food & beverage service employees (waiter, barmen, barmaid...) working in the accommodation industry. The content of the video was carefully identified through research assessing specific needs of information of the concerned employees.
Introduction: Charles Cardona, Jr., Chief Executive Officer, BNY Mellon Cash Investment Strategies, and President, The Dreyfus Corporation Moderator: Gerry Tamburro, Managing Director, Pershing, a BNY Mellon company Danny Meyer, Chief Executive Officer, Union Square Hospitality Group