CHALUPA, Štěpán and Karel CHADT. The Changes in Client-Employee Communication at Hotel Front Office in Connection to CoVid19 Pandemic. Online. In Khalid S. Solimon. Innovation Management and information Technology impact on Global Economy in the Era of Pandemic. Cordoba: International Business Information Management Association (IBIMA), 2021, p. 752-757, 7 pp. ISBN 978-0-9998551-6-4.
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Original name The Changes in Client-Employee Communication at Hotel Front Office in Connection to CoVid19 Pandemic
Authors CHALUPA, Štěpán and Karel CHADT.
Edition Cordoba, Innovation Management and information Technology impact on Global Economy in the Era of Pandemic, p. 752-757, 7 pp. 2021.
Publisher International Business Information Management Association (IBIMA)
Other information
Original language English
Type of outcome Proceedings paper
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
Publication form electronic version available online
Organization unit University College Prague – University of International Relations and Institute of Hospitality Management and Economics, Ltd.
ISBN 978-0-9998551-6-4
ISSN 2767-9640
Keywords in English Customer Care, Hospitality Industry, Soft Skills, Communication Changes
Tags International impact, Reviewed
Links TL04000153, research and development project.
Changed by Changed by: Ing. Štěpán Chalupa, Ph.D., učo 10522. Changed: 15/2/2022 21:15.
Abstract
The current hospitality industry is highly influenced by the pandemics of CoVid 19 and connected national and international measures. Several studies are already proposing the strategies for hospitality industry recovery, and the majority of them do not consider a significant shift in customer behaviour and employee skills and abilities. This study aims to understand the difference in communication with hotel clients in the front office before the pandemics and when the national measures were applied. The study is based on the semi-structures questioning of 59 front-office, HR and operations manager in Prague and their evaluation of several concepts. During the pandemics, the front office employees were mainly handling the request for cancellation of the stay, their move or other reimbursement and information handling via phone or email. Only 12 % of the respondents prepared the training programme for their employees to handle these situations. As the results, we propose sustainable HR, learning and development strategy as the hospitality recovery basics. Quest satisfaction can be the only driver to improve hotels and other accommodation facilities' performance and sustainable operation.
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