Leading Hotels: Activities 4-6 Introduction These work based activities build on Activities 1 to 3. They provide further opportunities for you to use and develop your skills in ICT and Maths while also increasing your knowledge of the hotel sector in the UK.
Situation You are undertaking a work experience placement with the British Hospitality Association. Your work experience supervisor needs your help in sorting out and presenting some information about hotels. The information is going to be used for a report the BHA is preparing about the UK hotel sector. Activity 4 Table 2 is similar to Table 1 (from Activity 1), but in addition to giving the number of hotels that each of these leading hotel companies has in the UK and their brands, Table 2 records the number of bedrooms each company has in the UK. (a) Using the information in Table 2, rank the hotel companies 1 to 10, in order of size by the number of bedrooms in the UK. (b) Now revise Table 2 so that the companies are listed in order of rank by the number of bedrooms in the UK. (c) Write a brief description of your revised Table 2, comparing the content with your revised Table 1 from Activity 1 (b). You might like to comment on: •
whether any hotel companies are ranked the same in both tables
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whether it matters which approach to ranking the hotels is used
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other ways of ranking hotel companies and/or sorting them into different categories
Activity 5 Draw charts or graphs to illustrate in different ways the information in your revised Table 2 about the top 10 hotel groups and the number of hotel bedrooms they have in the UK. Activity 6 Your Supervisor needs information for a careers magazine. Choose one area of hotel work that interests you such as reception, housekeeping, kitchen, front of house management. Carry out research to find out about the career opportunities in the UK and/or abroad offered by one of the hotel companies listed in the tables and the career opportunities offered by a small hotel company not listed in the tables. Compare your findings.
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TABLE 2: TOP 10 HOTEL GROUPS WITH MORE THAN 200 BEDROOMS IN THE UK TO 31 AUGUST 2008 (BY NUMBER OF BEDROOMS) (LISTED IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER) Ranking
Company
No. of Hotels in UK
Total Bedrooms in UK
Brands
Accor Hotels
130
18,952 *Sofitel (3), Novotel (31), Mercure (29), Ibis (50), Etap (12), Formule 1 (5)
Best Western
285
15,305 Best Western
Carlson Hotels Worldwide
40
7,725 *Radisson (11), *Park Inn (19), *Country Inns & Suites (1)
De Vere (AHG)
62
7,310 De Vere Hotels (12), Village (20), Venues (30)
Hilton Hotel Corporation
71
Intercontinent al Hotels Group (IHG)
256
Marriott International
52
Travelodge Dubai International Capital Whitbread Hotel Company Wyndham Worldwide
15,610 Hilton (69), *Garden Inn (1), *Doubletree (1) 34,530 InterContinental (1), *Crowne Plaza (18), *Holiday Inn (116), *Express by Holiday Inn (120), Staybridge Suites (1) 11,436 Renaissance (3), Marriott (48), JW Marriott (1)
333 (+)
23,150 Travelodge
518 (+)
36,000 Premier Inn (+)
107
10,589 *Days Inn (25), *Days Hotel (10), *Ramada (65), *Ramada Encore (6), Wyndham Grand (1)
* Some or all franchised to another operator Source: These figures for the year to 30 August 2008 show the leading hotel groups in the UK (based on the number of bedrooms). The figures are from British Hospitality: Trends and Statistics 2008, published by the British Hospitality Association, as reported on 5 December 2008 on the website www.caterersearch.com. This table shows the number of hotels each group has in the UK, their brands, and the number of bedrooms in the UK.
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