5 Research Results
5.1 Observation
The observation took place at the Solo Sokos Hotel Paviljonki for approximately one and a half hours. The author had meetings with the hotel manager and the hotel su- pervisor in order to create the first impression, got to know the hotel organization and staff related to housekeeping and especially got to know the housekeeping appli- cation Serviator and its functions. A detailed description of Serviator was given and a demonstration was performed.
In general, Serviator is a web-based application, meaning all or some part of the pro- gram were downloaded from the web each time it was run (PC Magazine, 2015) or it was accessed over a connection using the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) rather
than existing within a device memory (Techopedia, 2015). Therefore, it was unnec- essary to install the program and the reception, housekeeping supervisor and house- keepers could access on the same interface through the Internet. The housekeeping department dominantly used the application while the reception claimed that they occasionally used it, only with the purpose of checking the Room Status in case it might not show correctly on the Property Management System (PMS) Opera - the program that the Reception mainly used. Its interface was designed with a number of columns of small squares, which had different colors to show different meanings. For example, if the room was clean and ready for sale, the square color became ‘green’ while ‘red’ indicated that the room was unavailable or dirty, and ‘yellow’ meant the room required checking. Serviator had five main features, including Room Status, Maintenance, Special Cleaning, Minibar and VIP Room; thus, mainly utilized in the day shift where the housekeepers cleaned the rooms.
5 Research Results5.1 ObservationThe observation took place at the Solo Sokos Hotel Paviljonki for approximately one and a half hours. The author had meetings with the hotel manager and the hotel su- pervisor in order to create the first impression, got to know the hotel organization and staff related to housekeeping and especially got to know the housekeeping appli- cation Serviator and its functions. A detailed description of Serviator was given and a demonstration was performed.In general, Serviator is a web-based application, meaning all or some part of the pro- gram were downloaded from the web each time it was run (PC Magazine, 2015) or it was accessed over a connection using the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) ratherthan existing within a device memory (Techopedia, 2015). Therefore, it was unnec- essary to install the program and the reception, housekeeping supervisor and house- keepers could access on the same interface through the Internet. The housekeeping department dominantly used the application while the reception claimed that they occasionally used it, only with the purpose of checking the Room Status in case it might not show correctly on the Property Management System (PMS) Opera - the program that the Reception mainly used. Its interface was designed with a number of columns of small squares, which had different colors to show different meanings. For example, if the room was clean and ready for sale, the square color became ‘green’ while ‘red’ indicated that the room was unavailable or dirty, and ‘yellow’ meant the room required checking. Serviator had five main features, including Room Status, Maintenance, Special Cleaning, Minibar and VIP Room; thus, mainly utilized in the day shift where the housekeepers cleaned the rooms.
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