Unit 41 Hospitality Provision in travel and tourism Sector St. Patrick's College London Level 4

PKF :- PKF was the innovator in hotel consulting. The section of the Uniform System of Accounts for the Lodging Industry (USALI) in 1927, marks the opening of the firm's dedicated hospitality consultative activities, backed by elaborate fiscal surveys and relevant standard services tailor-made for a globally rising commercial enterprise.

Task 1

1.1 Interrelationships between hospitality and wider travel and tourism businesses Hospitality

Hospitality is just the maintaining guest relations, customer relationships and improving customer relations. It can be defined as maintaining a healthy reception and treating guests and strangers by providing a friendly environment. It is a generous and warm way of treating guests.

The fields included in hospitality is cruise ships, amusement parks, restaurants, hotels, convention centres etc (Sheehan, 2018). Overlapping the catering industry with the hospitality industry, major food services are provided to the above institutions and also to the private parties and ptivate industries. Many basic operations are there like industry challenges, running trends like food service, spas, casinos etc. It depends on Disposable time and leisure time. Vacancy rate is an important variable factor in this industry. Hospitality players find advantage in the old locations only. It is also important to have direct contact with the customers. A competitive advantage lies in authenticity, professionalism and actual concern of the customers which is communicated by the organisation. It includes everything from small sofa bed to large star rated hotels.

Travel & Tourism Industry:

Travelling is something moving geagraphically at different locations, for any pleasure or for any work purpose. He key concept in tourism and travel includes area in which a person carries his/her regular routine life. Mainly it is accommodating, attraction of tourists and business of regulating tours. Tourism have parts i.e. international and inside the traveller's country. A person becomes travel agent by graduating in travel and tourism.It is an important source of generating income for various regions and countries. It also brings a huge amount of income to local economy and directly affects the cultural, economic, social and environmental sectors f the country. UN has described 3 types of tourism Domestic tourism which includes residents of its own country travelling in the same country. Inbound tourism which involves non residential people travelling in a particular country and Outbound tourism which combines residents travelling in some other country. Domestic and international both can be described as parts o