Reference no: EM132698002

Assessment

This assessment develops your researching and critical thinking skills. By researching best practices from hotel industry you are able to contrast best practices to further refine your understanding of hotel operations and their associated strategies.

Your Task

You will choose three (3) best practices in operations strategy and practices from the global hotel industry and/or hospitality industry. Next, you should research recent industry and academic sources (within the last 5 years) to locate evidence and examples of each best practice to then provide discussion of the implications for hotel sector.

If you are working at this organisation, please make sure NOT to divulge any sensitive information (you may wish to check online what information is made public by the organisation to ensure this). While the scope is reflected by topics 1-3, you are expected to use journal articles (minimum of 6) to support your statements.

Other information about this assessment

Your assignment will be a 1000 words document (referenced in text).This does not include appendix in word count. The submission will form the basis for Assessment 2 - presentation and be structured as follows:

1. Introduction (50 words) - Introduce the identified three best practices in operations and practices from the global hotel industry and/or hospitality industry and why you selected them.

2. Best Practices (900 words) - should describe and explain the three best practices using a sub-heading for each issue clearly identifying relevance of that best practice to hotel industry and topics that cover week 1-3.

3. Conclusion (50 words) - a brief conclusion to summarise contract between best practices for global hotel industry into the future.

4. Reference List - a list of references - minimum 6 - (industry and academic).