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Hospitality refers to the relationship between a guest and a host, wherein the host receives the guest with goodwill, including the reception and entertainment of guests, visitors, or strangers. Louis, chevalier de Jaucourt describes hospitality in the Encyclopédie as the virtue of a great soul that cares for the whole universe through the ties of humanity.
Hospitality ethics is a discipline that studies this usage of hospitality.
Derives from the Latin hospes, meaning "host", "guest", or "stranger". Hospes is formed from hostis, which means "stranger" or "enemy" (the latter being where terms like "hostile" derive). By metonymy the Latin word 'Hospital' means a guest-chamber, guest's lodging, an inn. Hospes is thus the root for the English words host (where the p was dropped for convenience of pronunciation), hospitality, hospice, hostel and hotel.
In the West today hospitality is rarely a matter of protection and survival and is more associated with etiquette and entertainment. However, it still involves showing respect for one's guests, providing for their needs, and treating them as equals. Cultures and subcultures vary in the extent to which one is expected to show hospitality to strangers, as opposed to personal friends or members of one's ingroup.
The hospitality industry is a broad category of fields within the service industry that includes lodging, event planning, theme parks, transportation, cruise line, and additional fields within the tourism industry. The hospitality industry is a multibillion-dollar industry that depends on the availability of leisure time and disposable income. A hospitality unit such as a restaurant, hotel, or an amusement park consists of multiple groups such as facility maintenance and direct operations (servers, housekeepers, porters, kitchen workers, bartenders, management, marketing, and human resources etc.).
Usage rate, or its inverse "vacancy rate", is an important variable for the hospitality industry. Just as a factory owner would wish a productive asset to be in use as much as possible (as opposed to having to pay fixed costs while the factory is not producing), so do restaurants, hotels, and theme parks seek to maximize the number of customers they "process" in all sectors. This led to formation of services with the aim to increase usage rate provided by hotel consolidators. Information about required or offered products are brokered on business networks used by vendors as well as purchasers.
Overview of hospitality industry. Hospitality is the relationship between guest and host, or the act or practice of being hospitable. Specifically, this includes the reception and entertainment of guests, visitors, or strangers, resorts, membership clubs, conventions, attractions, special events, and other services for travelers and tourists. Learn an overview of hospitality industry. Very useful to build basic understanding of the industry, understand its key drivers, business model, products and services and revenue model. Great video to help gain domain expertise in hospitality Industry.
This hospitalitepublishing video provides an insight into the nature of work in the hospitality industry by looking at employees in seven different operations. It features in the free interactive ibook 'Working in Hospitality' authored by Prof. Peter Jones. For more information visit http://www.hospitalitepublishing.com/
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...
Fancy working in the hospitality industry? There are more than 20,000 vacancies in the food, drink, accommodation and entertainment sectors across the UK every month – and it’s a sector that’s going to grow. If you’re a team player, friendly and customer-focused, it could be the job for you. Watch the video to find out more.
MASTERMINDS HOTEL & TOURISM - PERSPECTIVES ON THE HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY MIPIM 2013 • Moderator - Peter GRANT, Deputy Editor, The Wall Street Journal • Speakers - Rui BARROS, Senior Vice President and Managing Director, Wyndham Hotel Group - Stephen JOYCE, President & CEO, Choice Hotels International - Simon VINCENT, President, EMEA, Hilton Worldwide
In this video you will learn about rising trends in the restaurant, hotel and hospitality industries. Jack W. Plunkett gives information on how online travel agencies like Expedia and Hotels.com compete with hotel chains for customer loyalty, as well as trends in cruise lines and restaurant automation. Find us online: http://plunkettresearch.com http://facebook.com/plunkettresearch http://twitter.com/PlunkettOnline http://www.linkedin.com/in/jackwplunkett Google Plus: http://bit.ly/zcJXg9
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...
Have you ever wanted to know what it would be like to work in the hospitality industry? Careers Jersey interviewed staff at a leading Jersey hotel to answer your questions on what working in the hospitality industry is really like. Produced by Careers Jersey and The Observatory.
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More Info http://bitly.com/2fuCAR9 This is the eBook of the printed book and may not include any media, website access codes, or print supplements that may come packaged with the bound book. Hospitality management students and professionals responsible for accounting functions at their property, or who aspire to a career in hospitality accounting, will benefit from this textbook. This textbook includes everything readers will need to gain a clear understanding of managerial accounting in a hospitality setting. Chapters reflect new tax laws and the impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, as well as the results of new survey research on updated practices in capital budgeting and leasing. Readers will learn to make effective choices based on the numbers that affect daily operations, develop on-targ...
More Info http://bitly.com/2fuxnsq "As the hospitality field continues to grow and diversify, today's hospitality professionals need to understand financial accounting at a higher level than ever before. Written by some of the most respected authors in accounting, Hospitality Financial Accounting, Second Edition gives a complete introduction to financial accounting principles and demonstrates how to apply them to all facets of the hospitality industry." "Updated with the latest developments in the accounting and hospitality fields, Hospitality Financial Accounting, Second Edition covers the basics of financial accounting and then shows readers how to analyze statements and deal with the daily issues they will face on the job."--BOOK JACKET.
"The Hospitality industry is a big family..." Hear stories from our members who live and breath 'Hospo' and what the industry means to them.
"The Hospitality industry is a big family..." Hear stories from our members who live and breath 'Hospo' and what the industry means to them.
"The Hospitality industry is a big family..." Hear stories from our members who live and breath 'Hospo' and what the industry means to them.
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Get your free audiobook or ebook: http://yazz.space/sabk/35/en/B00CXQ674C/info Learn both theory and practice of knowledge managementsir Francis Bacon once wrote, knowledge is power. Knowledge Sharing and Quality Assurance in Hospitality and Tourism provides strategies to grab that power and the competitive edge in the tourism industry through knowledge management (km) and quality assurance. Leading tourism and hospitality experts offer the latest theory and practical frameworks to expand the knowledge needed for creating and maintaining success at destinations around the world. Each cogent chapter provides fresh directions for future research and the creation of effective ways to share and use knowledge.as the tourism and hospitality industry expands, the competition increases as the sear...
1.3 evaluate the relevance of consumer markets in the industry 1.4 discuss the rationale for developing different market segments
3.1 evaluate the role of the promotional mix 3.2 plan an advertising campaign for a services industry operation 3.3 analyse the role that sales promotion and public relations play in promotional efforts
William Blue College of Hospitality Management hosts a HSC Hospitality Revision Day. This is the Session 3: Working in the Hospitality Industry, presented by Jacqui Joseph, Lecturer of Hospitality at William Blue. To receive the all 5 recorded video sessions, and the HSC Revision Content Pack, please register at http://www.williamblue.edu.au/about-william-blue/upcoming-events/hsc-revision-workshop
1.3 assess the role of hospitality related organisations and professional bodies 2.1 assess the staffing requirements of different hospitality industries 2.2 discuss the roles, responsibilities and qualification requirements for hospitality staff
March 19, 2012 Speakers: Justin Ward, VP, Business Practices - Center for Environmental Leadership in Business, Conservation International Mari L. Snyder, VP, Social Responsibility, Marriott International What Was Covered: • Ensuring sustainable supply chains and protecting essential ecosystem services is critical to U.S. businesses and the overall economic prosperity of the U.S. The private sector plays a large role in driving innovation that secures the natural resource base of our economy. Marriott is a leader in the hospitality industry in demonstrating how responsible hotel management can be a positive force for protecting natural capital as well as creating economic opportunities in the U.S. and around the world. • Sustainability is good for business. It improves profitability;...
Thank you very much for your interest in this presentation about Heart-Based Hospitality, which I believe will be the concept of and approach to creating the hospitality guest experience throughout the hotel industry in the not too distant future. The techniques involved enable hotels to create a hotel guest experience beyond the 5-Stars level of service by using thought energy and heart energy. The level called 5-Stars is not the highest possible level of hospitality or service. It is, if you base hospitality on the obsolete, left brain, and mechanical concept of SOP-Customer Satisfaction, which is founded on an obsolete scientific worldview, and use the current methods to create it. (By the way, SOP means "Standards of Performance".) But if you look at human beings as we really are, a...
Host Michael Stoler sits down with real estate experts to gain insight into the Hospitality Industry in New York City. They discuss how the hospitality industry has improved from 9/11, new hotel developments under construction, how hotels determine a room rate, and certain building restrictions on hotel developments within the city. The national pastime is not baseball, basketball or football; it's the topic of real estate. People all over New York and the tri-state region are talking about the real estate marketplace: office space, affordable housing, rentals, condos, retail trends. What are the trends? What's the latest news? And where's the next development? Join Michael Stoler every week and explore these and other real estate issues in the tri-state area during this half-hour round t...