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APRIL Guest Service: A Culture of YES |
Monday April 22, 2019 |
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Guest Service: What's Your Yes Spend?
By Scott Hale, Chief Experience Officer, Brand New Stay
If you're like most hoteliers, you're always on the lookout for ways to differentiate your venue and enhance your Team and Guest experience. You've got things that you'd like to start doing, things that you'd like to stop doing, and things that you'd like to do better. Is spending on yes in your plans? If it's not, it should be. If you spend on yes, you'll transform your venue. You'll demonstrate to your Team and your Guests that you value and trust them. Assessing your yes will get you off to a good start. Next, empowering your Team to seamlessly spend on yes will better serve your guests and ensure that they enjoy a truly memorable experience worth sharing and repeating.
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| TRENDING THIS WEEK |
Hotel Guest Injuries: Managing the Seen and Unseen Risks
By Kurt Meister, Senior Vice President , Distinguished Programs
While a slip or fall remains the most common cause of guest injuries, a hotel's largest risk exposure may lie in the water. Legionella outbreaks have been reported at several hotels nationwide. This deadly bacterium can be fatal. When it spreads, it affects multiple guests. And when your hotel receives a claim, you may not be covered if your insurance policy includes a bacteria exclusion. This article walks through common causes of guest injuries – from legionella and E. coli to bed bugs and molestation – and offers best practices for preventing injuries, protecting your hotel and safeguarding your guests.
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DAILY HEADLINES - Monday Apr 22, 2019 |
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More from our online Library Archives... |
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Creating the Guest Experience on a Multi-Sensory Level
By Richard Graham, General Manager, The Fontaine
Following The Fontaine's remodel and rebranding in December of 2017, we decided it was a crucial turning point in the hotel's future. Success is dependent on evolution and we knew with the ever-changing hospitality and travel industries we were at a crossroad in the industry. In order to adapt with the current hotel trends, we had to re-organize our goals and come up with a game-plan for the future of the hotel. This included focusing on the little things that act as the building blocks for an experiential experience for our guests. We strive to give guests a memorable stay that would further enrich their lives as travelers.
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The Hotel Concierge: Owning the Guest Experience Through Technology
By Alexander Shashou, Co-Founder and President, ALICE
Many concierges we speak with today fear technology is putting them out of a job. The reality is the right technology will actually safeguard their profession and place them at the center of the guest experience, because guests want and will always want convenient, personalized service. The reason the concierge role is undervalued today is because of the gap in technology between what consumers have on their phones and what concierges use at their desks. The right technology, in contrast, lets concierges provide guests with mobile first communication, personalized, curated hospitality and flawless guest itinerary orchestration.
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Motivating Hotel Employees into Staying the Course of Service
By Kevin Robinson, COO & Managing Partner, Aparium Hotel Group
Maybe you've been there…you look at the clock and the minutes slowly tick by. You've fallen into a rut. Often associates feel the same way. It's vital that managers engage teams to sustain their motivation and passion, both in their day-to-day roles as well as in the service they deliver to guests and customers. According to Gallup's State of the Global Workplace report, a mere 13 percent of employees worldwide are engaged at work, a sobering figure. With engagement at an all-time low, it's important to motivate your workforce and the impact that it has on engagement.
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May 2019: |
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Eco-Friendly Practices: Corporate Social Responsibility |
The hotel industry has
undertaken a long-term effort to build more responsible and socially conscious
businesses. What began with small efforts to reduce waste - such as paperless
checkouts and refillable soap dispensers - has evolved into an international
movement toward implementing sustainable development practices. In addition to
establishing themselves as good corporate citizens, adopting eco-friendly
practices is sound business for hotels. According to a recent report from
Deloitte, 95% of business travelers believe the hotel industry should be
undertaking “green” initiatives, and Millennials are twice as likely to support
brands with strong management of environmental and social issues. Given these
conclusions, hotels are continuing to innovate in the areas of environmental
sustainability. For example, one leading hotel chain has designed special
elevators that collect kinetic energy from the moving lift and in the process,
they have reduced their energy consumption by 50% over conventional elevators. Also, they
installed an advanced air conditioning system which employs a magnetic
mechanical system that makes them more energy efficient. Other hotels are
installing Intelligent Building Systems which monitor and control temperatures
in rooms, common areas and swimming pools, as well as ventilation and cold
water systems. Some hotels are installing Electric Vehicle charging stations,
planting rooftop gardens, implementing stringent recycling programs, and
insisting on the use of biodegradable materials. Another trend is the creation
of Green Teams within a hotel's operation that are tasked to implement
earth-friendly practices and manage budgets for green projects. Some hotels
have even gone so far as to curtail or eliminate room service, believing that
keeping the kitchen open 24/7 isn't terribly sustainable. The May issue of the
Hotel Business Review will document what some hotels are doing to integrate
sustainable practices into their operations and how they are benefiting from
them.
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