Download or read book The Business of Resort Management written by Peter Murphy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-11-04 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can owners and managers ensure that their considerable capital investments will return a competitive return on their investments? How can users and owners be sure they enjoy the promises of tantalizing marketing and real estate claims? Managing Sustainable Resorts Profitably combines business management principles with environmental and social concerns to offer development solutions to these questions. By taking an holistic and contemporary approach to the problem of developing sustainable tourism operations, this book provides a comprehensive assessment of the strategies that need to be considered by various governments, developers and, in particular, the customer-investor. The major features of resort development covered by this book include: • Environmental scanning of principal external and internal influential factors • The curse and blessings of seasonality • Competition for people’s recreation and retirement dollars • Guest activity programming • Environmental issues • Cruise ships as mobile resorts • Staffing issues in isolated areas • Financial challenges for owners and operators alike • Risk Management • Mutually beneficial options for various stakeholders Based on an analysis of global resort opportunities and trends, the book focuses on those generic features that differentiate regional resort management from urban-centric management needs and priorities. Using comparative case studies the author emphases best case/benchmark examples of a range of resorts – large and small, urban and rural - to illustrate what can be achieved.
Download or read book World of Resorts written by Chuck Y. Gee and published by Educational Institute of American Hotel & Motel Association. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the case of classic hotels, development and management funcitons are generally treated as separate subjects. Resorts are different. The resort business is built on the fulfillment of dreams and desires, while classic hotels focus on necessity and convenience in serving business travelers. Resort development is not a one-time activity, ending with the opening of the resort, but is rather an ongoing process and a planning responsibility of management on behalf of ownership. The variables of a resort are many. A resort's products go beyond the simple provision of lodging, food, and beverage - although these hospitality basics must not only be provided, but given special attention by resorts. Each variable - type and scope of resort, location, seasonlity, range of recreation and amenities, forms of ownership, and other development-related aspects - will have a significant effect on the work of management. Becuase resorts cater to the leisure traveler, whose wants are diverse and fluid, so management must constantly keep abreast of emerging trends that shape guest preferences and create market appeal. Continual reinvestment in the resort plant or investment into new ROI projects is the price of competition in the resort world. Successful resorts, whether a single resort estate or an entire destination, remain perpetual works in progress. Managers who understand the development process will have greater appreciation of the reinvestment costs required to keep a resort attractive enough to retain current guests and gain new ones"--Page xiii
Download or read book Resort Development and Management written by Chuck Y. Gee and published by Educational Inst of the Amer Hotel. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Resorts written by Robert Christie Mill and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This updated second edition of ""Resorts: Management and Operation"" addresses the expansion of the resort industry and provides practical, need-to-know information on the development and management of all aspects of these properties, which include ski areas, gaming properties, cruise ships, and spas.
Download or read book Mountain Resort Marketing and Management written by Armelle Solelhac and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-08-25 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mountain resort tourism is a competitive environment, experiencing increasing growth in new markets such as China, that require the knowledge and skills developed by mature markets. This book provides these insights by offering a critical and up-to-date examination of the mountain industry. This book covers branding, management, and revenue optimization in an industry where very heavy investments are requested and mature markets need to ensure they remain competitive. Chapters include interviews with professionals and international experts on mature markets to shed light on the development and marketing strategies that make these resorts successful. Major issues facing mountain resorts today are addressed, including climate change, sustainability, COVID-19, the experience economy, yield management and dynamic pricing policies, and investment management. Offering valuable knowledge on how to successfully market and manage ski resorts in an ever-changing and competitive environment, this will be useful reading for upper-level students, researchers and current practitioners in winter sports, destination development and management, sport tourism, and development studies.
Download or read book Timeshare Resort Operations written by Randall S. Upchurch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a complete overview of timeshare development and operation models. The authors take a comprehensive look at the present and future of this growing segment of the hospitality industry, including specialized approaches to marketing, human resources, service quality, finance, legal considerations and professional ethics. Timeshare, or vacation ownership, is a relatively recent leisure phenomenon. It emerged in the late 1950s as a way to secure extra capital resources to fund property expansion. Shareholders had the right to use these properties on a regular basis. Although arrangements have grown in complexity and variation, the model allows for customers to buy rights to use a property for a fixed time period each year. Timeshare arrangements have experienced rapid international growth particularly in the last fifteen to twenty years and are now an important vacation arrangement. Most of the world's major hotel and resort developers now operate timeshare properties. Firms like Marriott, Hilton, Hyatt, Disney and Ramada have brought a new formality and legitimacy to timeshare development and operation.
Download or read book Hotel Design Planning and Development written by Richard H. Penner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 823 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hotel Design, Planning and Development presents the most significant hotels developed internationally in the last ten years so that you can be well-informed of recent trends. The book outlines essential planning and design considerations based on the latest data, supported by technical information and illustrations, including original plans, so you can really study what works. The authors provide analysis and theory to support each of the major trends they present, highlighting how the designer’s work fits into the industry's development as a whole. Extensive case studies demonstrate how a successful new concept is developed. Hotel Design, Planning and Development gives you a thorough overview of this important and fast-growing sector of the hospitality industry.
Download or read book Project Management in Hotel and Resort Development written by Margaret Huffadine and published by McGraw-Hill Companies. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hotel and resort development. It's one of the hottest, fastest-growing areas in the construction industry today, as well as one of the most creative and rewarding. But managing these unusually complex projects can pose plenty of potential headaches for the uninitiated. With the many clients on such projects who must be satisfied, the various contractors who must be dealt with, and all the different technologies that must be successfully implemented and coordinated, you need an exceptionally sophisticated and workable system of project management to pull it all together - smoothly, on time, and within budget. This book provides you with precisely that system! Drawing on the newest and most effective techniques of project management yet developed-techniques that are especially well-suited to the unique problems posed by hotel and resort development and other large commercial projects - this detailed, step-by-step guide takes you through every stage of the process. Among the many things you'll learn: how to establish market feasibility and minimize risk; how to ascertain the special functional needs of a particular hotel or resort complex and come up with an aesthetically pleasing, but cost-effective, plan to meet those needs; how to assemble a talented and smoothly functioning team, with tips on setting up clear lines of communication; how to balance the sometimes conflicting requirements of all the various clients involved - including owners, government authorities, hotel managers, and hotel users; how to conform to the constraints presented by budgetary and environmental concerns and still come up with a plan you'll be proud to put your name on; how to assure cost and quality control through every stage of the project; and how to achieve "hands-on" management of everything from the bidding process ... to procurements ... to planning and scheduling ... to liaisons with clients ... to each stage of construction ... to phase-out and completion of the project. Filled with fascinating case studies of ambitious hotel and resort projects that have been successfully and imaginatively carried out in recent years, this book is unequalled in providing expert advice on handling the complex issues you'll need to master a challenging and truly rewarding undertaking.
Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Hotel Chain Management written by Maya Ivanova and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-05 with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding the global hotel business is not possible without paying specific attention to hotel chain management and dynamics. Chains are big business, approximately 80 percent of hotels currently being constructed around the world are chain affiliated and, in 2014, the five largest brands held over a one million rooms. The high economic importance of the hotel chains and their global presence justifies the academic research in the field however, despite this, there is no uniform coverage in the current body of literature. This Handbook aids in filling the gap by exploring and critically evaluates the debates, issues and controversies of all aspects of hotel chains from their nature, fundamentals of existence and operation, expansion, strategic and operational aspects of their activities and geographical presence. It brings together leading specialists from range of disciplinary backgrounds and regions to provide state-of-the-art theoretical reflection and empirical research on current issues and future debates. Each of the five inter-related section explores and evaluates issues that are of extreme importance to hotel chain management, focusing on theoretical issues, the expansion of hotel chains, strategic and operational issues, the view point of the individual affiliated hotel and finally the current and future debates in the theory and practice of hotel chain management arising from globalisation, demographic trends, sustainability, and new technology development. It provides an invaluable resource for all those with an interest in hotel management, hospitality, tourism and business encouraging dialogue across disciplinary boundaries and areas of study. This is essential reading for students, researchers and academics of Hospitality as well as those of Tourism, Marketing, Business and Events Management.
Download or read book Hotels and Resorts written by Fred R. Lawson and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hotel Revenue Management written by Dave Roberts and published by Business Expert Press. This book was released on 2022-01-27 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book guides the reader from the building blocks of revenue management, to pricing science and merchandising, and to broader issues of setting objectives in support of a revenue strategy. The discipline is evolving, and that evolution has been accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Leaders in hotel revenue management, and more broadly in sales & marketing, need to understand these changes, and lead and adapt accordingly. This will require a strong foundation in analytics–not just modeling, but also business analytics in support of a holistic strategy. As more of the tactics of revenue management are executed through automation, and powered by machine learning, revenue managers will become more focused on strategy and will need to think about revenue management in the context of marketing, loyalty, and distribution. As the strategy component of the discipline increases, so too must the breadth of knowledge of revenue managers.
Download or read book Revenue Management for the Hospitality Industry written by David K. Hayes and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: REVENUE MANAGEMENT FOR THE HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY Explore intermediate and advanced topics in the field of revenue management with this up-to-date guide In the newly revised second edition of Revenue Management for the Hospitality Industry, an accomplished team of industry professionals delivers a comprehensive and insightful review of hospitality pricing and revenue optimization strategies. The book offers realistic industry examples from hotels, restaurants, and other hospitality industry segments that use differential pricing as a major revenue management tool. The authors discuss concepts critical to the achievement of hospitality professionals’ revenue management goals and include new examinations of the growing importance of effective data collection and management. A running case study helps students learn how to incorporate the revenue management principles and strategies included in the book’s 14 chapters. Written for students with some prior knowledge and understanding of the hospitality industry, the new edition also includes: A brand-new chapter on data analysis and revenue management that addresses many of the most important data and technology-related developments in the field, including the management of big data, data safety, and data security In-depth discussions of revenue management topics including Net Revenue Per Available Room, Direct Revenue Ratio, and other KPIs Major changes to the book’s instructor support materials and an expansion of the instructor’s test bank items and student exercises. An indispensable resource for students taking courses in hospitality management or business administration, Revenue Management for the Hospitality Industry, Second Edition is also ideal for managers and executives in the hospitality industry.
Download or read book The Cornell School of Hotel Administration on Hospitality written by Michael C. Sturman and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-03-31 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This cutting edge and comprehensive book with contributions from the star faculty of Cornell University's School of Hotel Administration offers the latest thinking on the best practices and strategies for hospitality management. A must for students and professionals seeking to enter or expand their reach in the hospitality industry, The Cornell School of Hotel Administration on Hospitality delivers the authoritative advice you need to: Develop and manage a multinational career and become a leader in the hospitality industry Maximize profits from franchise agreements, management contracts, and leases Understand and predict customer choices, and motivate your staff to provide outstanding service Manage hospitality businesses and the real estate underlying the businesses Control costs, coordinate branding strategy, and manage operations across multiple locations
Download or read book The SAGE Handbook of Hospitality Management written by Roy C Wood and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2008-06-05 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At last, a comprehensive, systematically organized Handbook which gives a reliable and critical guide to all aspects of one of the world′s leading industries: the hospitality industry. The book focuses on key aspects of the hospitality management curriculum, research and practice bringing together leading scholars throughout the world. Each essay examines a theme or functional aspect of hospitality management and offers a critical overview of the principle ideas and issues that have contributed, and continue to contribute, within it. Topics include: • The nature of hospitality and hospitality management • The relationship of hospitality management to tourism, leisure and education provision • The current state of development of the international hospitality business • The core activities of food, beverage and accommodation management • Research strategies in hospitality management • Innovation and entrepreneurship trends • The role of information technology The SAGE Handbook of Hospitality Management constitutes a single, comprehensive source of reference which will satisfy the information needs of both specialists in the field and non-specialists who require a contemporary introduction to the hospitality industry and its analysis. Bob Brotherton formerly taught students of Hospitality and Tourism at Manchester Metropolitan University. He has also taught Research Methods to Hospitality and Tourism students at a number of international institutions as a visiting lecturer; Roy C. Wood is based in the Oberoi Centre of Learning and Development, India
Download or read book Resort Development and Management written by Chuck Y. Gee and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hotel Management and Operations written by Denney G. Rutherford and published by John Wiley & Sons Incorporated. This book was released on 1990 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a broad range of research and commentary on issues in the management of modern hotel departments for students. Covers changes in the industry reflecting the economy, organizational design, interdepartmental conflict in hotels, food and beverages, entertainment, front office management, marketing, financial control, and managing human resources. Includes numerous examples and case histories. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Disaster Planning and Preparedness in the Hotel Industry written by Ahmad Rasmi Albattat and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-04 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By identifying major emergencies that have occurred in the hotel industry; investigating hotels’ preparation for emergencies in the past; and exploring how hotels manage and overcome such emergencies; this book will increase the awareness of emergency managers on how to manage and overcome the impact of emergencies in the hospitality industry.
