With a hotel’s reputation increasingly made or broken in a single tweet or TripAdvisor review, increased guest expectations and the need to provide as good an F&B offer as any restaurant or bar, staff training is arguably more crucial in hotels than other hospitality businesses.
In the second part of our feature investigating the latest trends and case studies in training for consistency in the hospitality sector, we speak to a number of hotel operators, both small and large on the key areas they are focusing on, and seeing success in, when it comes to staff development.
Big boys and small fish
With news stories written every week on the latest schemes and projects the so-called ‘big boys’ are using to ensure their employees are up to scratch, the average hotelier might be forgiven for thinking the only advances are at the higher end of the market.
Whilst it is undeniably true Accor and Hilton Worldwide made waves with the Government and helped the cause of the industry by creating academies this year helping to kick-start careers and apprenticeships for young people, there is activity at all levels of the sector.