Work process and the ways of working have been tremendously transformed since the British Industrial Revolution in the nineteenth century. While in the late twentieth century the evolution of computers and the Internet marked a new page in human history, the twenty-first century has witnessed a huge breakthrough in new technology with the era of portable smart devices, which seems to absolutely change the ways we live and work. It has always been changing and challenging the ways we used to be. In the hospitality industry and the hotel business in particular, Information Technology (IT) applications have been greatly contributed to the management of operational routine tasks (Law & Jogaratnam, 2005). In the recent years, new applications using smart devices have been widespread in hotel businesses, which was usually limited in the front office system until the adoption of IT programs, for example housekeeping during the past few years.
This research deals with a housekeeping management mobile application as a new phenomenon in the hospitality industry. The subject of the research paper is Serviator – a program that is currently in use at Solo Sokos Hotel Paviljonki Jyväskylä, Finland with the aim to uncover the essence of housekeepers’ experience using the application; thus, to unfold the strengths and weaknesses of the application and suggest how to improve its capability in practice.
Work process and the ways of working have been tremendously transformed since the British Industrial Revolution in the nineteenth century. While in the late twentieth century the evolution of computers and the Internet marked a new page in human history, the twenty-first century has witnessed a huge breakthrough in new technology with the era of portable smart devices, which seems to absolutely change the ways we live and work. It has always been changing and challenging the ways we used to be. In the hospitality industry and the hotel business in particular, Information Technology (IT) applications have been greatly contributed to the management of operational routine tasks (Law & Jogaratnam, 2005). In the recent years, new applications using smart devices have been widespread in hotel businesses, which was usually limited in the front office system until the adoption of IT programs, for example housekeeping during the past few years.This research deals with a housekeeping management mobile application as a new phenomenon in the hospitality industry. The subject of the research paper is Serviator – a program that is currently in use at Solo Sokos Hotel Paviljonki Jyväskylä, Finland with the aim to uncover the essence of housekeepers’ experience using the application; thus, to unfold the strengths and weaknesses of the application and suggest how to improve its capability in practice.
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