Hospitality Management (Front Office)
- The major part of Telephone Etiquette is to listen the customer.
- The tone should be cheerful and friendly.
- Responsibility of the following Managers:
*Reception manager - Welcoming the guests, escorting them to the room, and seeing them off.
*Guest service manager - Handling guest mails, letters, and couriers.
*Night Audit Manager - Posting accommodation charges, taxes, and other paid services such as restaurant, internet charges to each guest's account accurately.
*Communication manager - Keeping in check all communication facilities such as PBX, facsimile, internet in the hotel.
*Reservation Manager - Providing and updating information on tours, prices, and itineraries.
- Front office staff qualities and competencies:
- Understand their respective roles and responsibilities in the hotel and front office as an operation.
- Equip themselves with basic etiquettes and mannerism.
- Possess pleasant, polite, and cordial personality.
- Wear clean and neat uniform with same accessories and footwear.
- Conduct themselves with professionalism, positive attitude, and cooperative nature.
- Difference between Whitney and Central Reservation.
- Whitney system of reservation is conventional manual way of reservation system in a hotel. This system is using a slip or any writable materials to record or make the reservation.
- Central Reservation system (CRS) is the advance and easiest reservation system. This system is computer-driven and can handle large amount of reservation data effortlessly.
- The potential causes of denying reservation are:
- All accommodations in a hotel booked.
- Requested type of accommodation not available.
- Guest or agent blacklisted.
- The one who prepares the list that contains vital information such as room preferences, and etc. is the reservation section of the front office.
- In cancellation, the purpose of updating is to know that there are changes in the reservation.
- A receptionist listens the guest, expresses sympathy, fixes the problem and if it requires higher command in a chain, the receptionist can call someone to resolve the problem.
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