Hotel Industry
The organisational structures and dynamics that characterises the hotel industry. ... This essay is based on the interpretation and analyses of the organisational structure and dynamics of the hotel industry. ... The main topic that will be analysed is the organisation structure of the hotel industry. Other issues considered will be the past and present trends of the hotel industry, the structure of the hotel industry and what kind of organisations make up the hotel industry. The essay will be concluded with the issues that may effect the hotel industry and any other issues raised throughout the essay. The hotel industry has withstood the recession years quite well, by adapting to changing trends, identifying new markets, better market segmentation and more efficient management. The growth in the number of foreign tourists in the UK, in the 1970s and 1980s has clearly helped the hotel industry. ... Spending on the accommodation sector has increased dramatically over the years, benefiting the hotel industry greatly. It is instructive to preference the broader discussion of managing in the hotel industry with an outline summary of what can be termed the organisational framework. ... Holiday inn is a good example of a hotel or chain of hotels that is highly bureaucratic. ... Studies of organisational structure in the industry have tended to focus on hotels within the broad framework of the contingency theory, and have generally rejected the bureaucratic model. Shamir (1978) found, contrary to expectation, that although the ‘traditional hotel organisation displays a essential bureaucratic “ menechanistic” structure, albeit with some deviations (like the high degree of autonomy in some departments)… it also displays some operational practices of an organic “flexible” nature’. The more ‘flexible’ an hotel was required to become in some respects, the more ‘mechanistic’ structures were in others. ... In most countries of the world, hotel businesses are dominated by small, family owned organizations, which have developed hand in hand with the tourism sector often earlier in the twentieth century. ... The UK hotel market has remained fairly unchanged during the 1980s and faced with increasing competition for a share of this market a number of new companies have emerged as well as consortia of independent hotels who have combined their marketing options.