Hotel housekeeping modern practices, challenges and opportunities –An appraisal
Singh Amrik
Assistant professor School of Hotel Management & Tourism, Lovely Professional University (Punjab) India
Online published on 5 June, 2014.
Abstract
In present era hotel housekeeping is not confined to clean and maintain the various surfaces in the hotels but much more beyond that. Present article explore the current challenges, best practices and emerging trends in hotel housekeeping which if executed well, could lead to higher growth and cost-effective tool for the hotel industry. This paper has reviewed the academics and popular hotel housekeeping trends. Hotel housekeeping need to meet leading challenges, trends and best practices as eco-friendly practices, outsourcing, IT savvy housekeeping, training, retention of employees, payroll performance and Ergonomics techniques. If the hotels implement these trends in an organised manner, it can lead to hotel growth opportunities and long term profitability. This paper augments new urgency to develop new trends in hotel housekeeping domain specific for manifold benefits.
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