Hotel Escargo: Process Mapping
Introduction
The current situation at Hotel Escargo clearly indicates that it requires new processes when it comes to its check-in as well as check-out procedures. In addition to these procedures, it also requires a new hotel offering process, aimed at improving its customer satisfaction (King, 1985). For the hotel to be in a position to demonstrate these desired processes, it needs a new process map. A process map will be able to show the hotel management how the needed changes can be effected to facilitate these changes easier and quicker among employees. Such a state will ensure that the checks in/out processes in the hotel are efficient and quick among the guest.
In the past, Hotel Escargo the visitors’
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The significance of such knowledge is that assist in the measurements constructions like a record sheet that can be used by the hotel in determining how the visitors learned about the new check-in processes and services provided.
The process that the study will analyze at this point will be the check-in data, check-out data, and the hotel offerings (Gober and Tannehill, 1984). The initial process of the assessment will be coming up with flows charts detailing the above hotel processes. The data used for constructing the flow charts was collected from the managers’ desks as the managers are linked directly with the different processes in question. A study was also carried out involving the staff members to identify their activities as well as their roles, and how they interact with visitors and the rest of the staff. The process part had to seen in action to make sure that the information collected in the interviews was correctly understood. Flow charts were then constructed for the required processes. After processes definition, measurement points were the identified so as to allow for satisfaction, integrity, and timeless
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However, none of the guests stated that this was a reasonable information source. One of the respondents accessed this information from external links such as travel agents. The findings indicate that the hotel needs to come up with better channels of communicating to their visitors with regards to the check-in services including online booking.
Check Out
The aim of this process was to find out the number of visitors checking out each day at the front desk. The management was concerned with this data considering the policy of the hotel to administer questionnaires to visitors who check out of the hotel in a move to determine the response of the visitors to the services offered by the hotel. The study is mainly done to get an insight of the efficiency and state of the services of the hotel (Cathcart, 1988). The questionnaire included questions on the every service offered. It put into different categories visitors enquiries on their satisfaction with regards to the services of the hotel and also the reason in case of any