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Breakfast can make the difference between a hotel and restaurant being viewed as a commodity or as an exceptional experience. This article offers 13 specific steps to success.

Hotel Security: Navigating concerns and identifying solutions Jul 26, 2021: Business and recreational travelers demand safe and secure hotel accommodations, as well as responsive and friendly customer service. How can hoteliers ensure that their property provides as secure an environment as possible, while maintaining friendly customer service?

As Warren Buffet said, “it takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.”

With that said, here are nine things to consider when it comes to blending hospitality and security.

A Baker's Dozen Approach to Success in Today's Hospitality Operations Jul 24, 2021: Workshop Focus: Hotel Profitability Ratios, Hotel Sales and Marketing Ideas, Hotel Operations

This workshop highlights the problems facing individual departments within every hotel and offers specific solutions on how to link efforts between departments for a cohesive team approach.

How to Recognize Suspicious Slip-And-Fall Claims Jul 23, 2021

Slip and fall accidents are often not witnessed and usually result in soft tissue - or "invisible" - injuries. Because of these characteristics, such incidents are prime candidates for fraud. Whether perpetrated by a "professional claimant" or by an employee seeking unwarranted Workers' Compensation benefits, insurance fraud is a serious and costly issue.

The Value of A Good Idea Jan 4, 2021: What's the Problem™? Too small a budget to find new marketing approaches

This video clip identifies the need to be creative and find small points of competitive edge. The short article identifies ways to find and introduce new ways of updating marketing and operational best practices.

Understanding Hospitality Brands Today - Maximizing the Equity in All of Your Brands Feb 4, 2020: With literally dozens of hospitality and hotel brands in every major category of our business, the pressure is very real to capitalize on the value of the brands we represent and use. This seminar offers a fresh look at the ways we use the equity in each of our brands in our everyday business decisions on pricing, purchasing, maintaining quality, and increasing our market share.

Preventative Maintenance for Profitability Feb 2, 2020: Lodging managers are responsible for ensuring a successful, smoothly run property. Guests and their satisfaction are obviously a top priority and there are a number of recent resources and articles that address how to ensure existing guests become repeat customers. Unfortunately, the current focus on customer service and marketing programs overshadows the back-of-the-house operations which can ultimately determine if a property is profitable or not.

This article briefly highlights the main cost factors of PM and PM’s importance in guest satisfaction, and illustrates that a piece of equipment’s useful life may be enough to justify implementing a PM program for an asset type.

11 Minimum Guidelines for Going Green Mar 22, 2019: Below is a list of actions properties of any size should take to stake their claim as an eco-friendly establishment. Each step contains further tactics, including case studies, statistics, and additional resources. AH&LA members who have further questions may get one-on-one advice from our Green Guru.

Making Customer Service Real Mar 16, 2018: Customer service is one of the most personal experiences in all of hospitality and is, at times, difficult to measure. It can often be the deciding factor in a hotel or restaurant customer's satisfaction and intent to return.

Legally Speaking, By: Karen Morris Hotel and Motel Management Sep 9, 2017

Selecting a lawsuit to write about is akin to going on a safari. The message from both cases here is not new but seems to regularly trip up hospitality facilities: Always, always be alert to conditions at your hotel that can cause
injury, and do what's necessary to remove the danger.

Karen Morris is a lawyer, municipal judge and Distinguished Professor at Monroe Community College in Rochester, N.Y., where she teaches hospitality law. Contact her at judgekaren@aol.com.

Planning Considerations for a Boutique Hotel Feb 23, 2017: Planning to build or make a Boutique hotel? Congratulations for taking the right decision, hopefully you are in the right city and location. Today many hoteliers or entrepreneurs are opting to go into Boutique segment. I therefore thought it timely to pen down my own experiences of creating Boutique hotels.
Ram Gupta is a management professional with specialisation in hospitality, real estate, product and e-marketing. He has over four decades of experience in India, Far East, Middle East and Europe. He has completed his management studies from New Delhi, India and higher studies from Germany.

DO's and DON'Ts of Hotel Technology v4 Oct 5, 2016: Terence Ronson has been adding some amazing and practical tips on guest service and ideas for almost every department in hotels over the past several years and we @ HospitalityEducators.com are delighted to share his latest list of recommendations!