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Wednesday, December 15, 2010
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Qatar Hotels May Feel Post-World Cup Blues
On the 2nd of December the FIFA surprisingly decided to select Qatar as country to host the Football World Cup in 2022. Qatar will have the honor to be the first Middle Eastern nation to host the event, but will also face major challenges during, and after world cup in order to fill up a massive quantity of rooms created for the occasion. The questions we could ask ourselves are what will happen with all these buildings after World Cup ends? Will investors have a good return? What future for the Qatar workers in hospitality industry?
Nowadays the country has a capacity of 44 000 rooms. According to Qatar plans, they should build an astonishing quantity of 55 000 supplementary rooms in order to satisfy tourists demand. These projects will of course boost the economy creating a lot of jobs, and bringing money from local and international investors. But for people working in the hospitality field, there are several problems to face.
Nowadays the country has a capacity of 44 000 rooms. According to Qatar plans, they should build an astonishing quantity of 55 000 supplementary rooms in order to satisfy tourists demand. These projects will of course boost the economy creating a lot of jobs, and bringing money from local and international investors. But for people working in the hospitality field, there are several problems to face.
One of them is the fact that the weather can be extremely hot in summer. Temperatures over 50 degrees Celsius are frequent. Even if football fields are constructed with air conditioning what would tourists do during the day? To avoid this problem, tourists may chose to stay shortly in Qatar or just come for the matches, avoiding long-distance flights and bringing down the hotels demand for rooms. One of the solutions to this problem would be to play World Cup during winter, which would be a premiere. But this solution has a considerable impact on the players and the schedules of different clubs championships. All calendars should actually be reorganized.
If we put aside the weather issue, our central preoccupation is what will happen after World Cup to buildings, and most of all, people.
Concerning buildings, in my opinion, it is fundamental that a big proportion is constructed with pre-fabricated and removable or recyclable materials. Hopefully, it is a solution they will adopt, because it is far from sure the occupancy room rate could be maintained over a good period of time, in order to absorb all the hospitality supply. Just to give some figures, currently, Qatar is only facing with occupancy levels next to 61 percent for the first half of this year. It is though legitimate to doubt about the ability of Qatar to attract a flow of people that could fill up almost 100 000 rooms easily.
Concerning people, it is very difficult to calculate the impact, but for sure, many of them will face problems to keep their jobs in hospitality after world cup. As a solution, Qatar could make contracts especially for young people or students willing to get a first experience in hospitality area. The special program would deliver special working visas for people from abroad. Those people would then only come for a limited period of time. If the flow of people continues to arrive, contracts could be renewed.
In conclusion, the organization of the World Cup is a big challenge in terms of logistic for Qatar and for the FIFA. It should be positive for Gulf countries in the region that could beneficiate from it. But if buildings are made to last in time, they could easily be empty after the event, leaving many people without jobs. But the Qatar Tourism Authority is confident the event will have a good impact on the economy diversification. They have an objective of 1 million visitors per year and a growth of 20 percent over the next five years…
If we put aside the weather issue, our central preoccupation is what will happen after World Cup to buildings, and most of all, people.
Concerning buildings, in my opinion, it is fundamental that a big proportion is constructed with pre-fabricated and removable or recyclable materials. Hopefully, it is a solution they will adopt, because it is far from sure the occupancy room rate could be maintained over a good period of time, in order to absorb all the hospitality supply. Just to give some figures, currently, Qatar is only facing with occupancy levels next to 61 percent for the first half of this year. It is though legitimate to doubt about the ability of Qatar to attract a flow of people that could fill up almost 100 000 rooms easily.
Concerning people, it is very difficult to calculate the impact, but for sure, many of them will face problems to keep their jobs in hospitality after world cup. As a solution, Qatar could make contracts especially for young people or students willing to get a first experience in hospitality area. The special program would deliver special working visas for people from abroad. Those people would then only come for a limited period of time. If the flow of people continues to arrive, contracts could be renewed.
In conclusion, the organization of the World Cup is a big challenge in terms of logistic for Qatar and for the FIFA. It should be positive for Gulf countries in the region that could beneficiate from it. But if buildings are made to last in time, they could easily be empty after the event, leaving many people without jobs. But the Qatar Tourism Authority is confident the event will have a good impact on the economy diversification. They have an objective of 1 million visitors per year and a growth of 20 percent over the next five years…
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
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Job Criteria Research
Requirements for the position of Sales Manager
- Sales skills
- Negotiation skills
- Building Relationship skills
- Presentation skills
- Team management
- Training skills
- Leadership skills
- Excellent verbal and written communications skills
- Must be able to work independently
- Must be able to think clearly, analyze and resolve problems, while exercising good judgment
- Able to remain calm and courteous in demanding situations
- Ability to manage in a culturally diverse work environment
Sales Manager, Amelia Island-Florida, Ritz Carlton
The online marketing and social networking is increasing day by day and it will be increasing even faster in the future. I think it is now crucial to understand the process of online marketing, communication through online social networks.
I'm happy to take this course because I'm sure by the end of this course I can improve my knowledge of digital reality !!!
How the course of digital marketing can help me in my future career
All requirements that I described earlier are relevant for the position of sales managers in a hotel. However, today it is more important to know how to work online, to better promote the hotel online, to create new online strategies as many travelers are consulting more and more internet for their trip.
I'm happy to take this course because I'm sure by the end of this course I can improve my knowledge of digital reality !!!
Hotels Save With Food Waste Recycling
Nowadays, the protection of the environment and sustainable development play an extremely important role for the survival of the planet.
This article talks about how the hotels mentality (here the case of the Hyatt’s hotels on food waste recycling) are evolving and integrating the sustainable development effectively in their management.
The author of this article begins by giving us the positive effects in savings made in 2009 thanks to the program of food waste recycling at the Hyatt Regency Princeton in New Jersey. In order to apply the program procedures as efficiently as possible each Hyatt decided to create its own “Green Team”. This team is formed by people from all sectors of the hotel, with a common objective to train employees on recycling procedures and finding new ways to improve the process.
After a waste audit made by the Rutgers SWRRG and a consultant, the Hyatt decided to make an agreement with Premier Food Waste Recycling, a subsidiary of Central Jersey Waste and Recycling, in order to take in charge its food waste. All materials accepted include food from the kitchen, restaurant, room service and banquet. The hotel also acquired special blue totes for the food waste, and green totes for commingled recyclables. The recycle food is now composted instead of landfilled.
An important factor in the success of the program is that employees are involved in this program and take it seriously. At the beginning, some of them were confused or didn’t take the time to throw the food in the right bin. After training employees for a couple of weeks, this problem was solved.
According to the statistics, it is possible to save approximately 100$/ton on waste and reduce the volume of trash pulls from weekly to once every three or four weeks.
To conclude, we should all be sensible to the waste recycling especially when we see between other things how the planet is getting polluted. And, some luxurious hotels, which are located on islands and also in the big cities, should follow correctly the procedure of recycling before reaching the point of no return in destroying the planet.
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