Inspection and compliance
[+] Hotel inspection:
- Operating audits
- On-line transmission of basic information and changes to standards/rules on the extranet (director’s manual)
[+] IT management:
- Computer equipment upgrades and orders (software and hardware) with the necessary development support
- IT maintenance and hot line
[+] Consulting, acquisition audits and Company Life Reporting
[+] Operating budget process:
- Monthly flash closing
- Simplified consolidated budget
- Quarterly and year-end closings
- Tracking reports
- Carrying out work and disbursements
- Controlling and issuing supplier payments
- Operating budgets
[+] Management control:
- Payroll and policy
- Operating ratios by cost/profit centre
- Annual negotiations with challenging suppliers
- Supplier negotiations and selection of buying syndicates or direct purchases
- Setting, coordinating and monitoring productivity (reception times, room maids, etc.)
See also...
Viewpoints / Interview
“The work by the marketing and sales team at Paris Honotel is first and foremost…teamwork with the Hotel Manager. The types of hotel customers – groups, businesspeople or tourists – are studied to set prices and yield. That is how we develop sales and hotel occupancy rates.
Who hasn’t made a purchase on the Internet? Web sales are also an essential element in getting new customers. Whether with on-line retailers or on the hotel’s own site, you have to make the most of each channel to make sure the hotel is visible on the Internet.
Lastly, each hotel is different. A hotel = a strategy.”