the Hospitality Industry

ASSIGNMENT ONE

 

The lodging industry serves a variety of travelers, and each business specializes in a particular type of customer. In this CheckPoint, you review the American Hotel & Lodging Association’s website listed in Introduction to the Hospitality Industry and reflect on the different types of travelers the lodging industry serves.

 

Please review Exercise 1 on page 306 of Introduction to the Hospitality Industry.

 

 

Prepare a paper responding to the item (b) posed in this exercise using no less than 200 words. Your response should be structured as a formal report using APA format

 

ASSIGNMENT TWO

 

 

Your response should be at least 200 words.

 

1. Identify three hotels with which you are familiar.

▪         If you were a hotel rater, how would you rate these properties, and why would you rate them as such?

 

▪         Which of the five criteria listed on page 278 of Introduction to the Hospitality Industry would you use to determine your rating?

 

2. Choose a type of traveler and create a scenario for a fictitious person. Provide your traveler with a name and describe his or her characteristics and reasons for traveling. You may include where he or she is traveling, how often he or she travels, his or her age, and so forth. Identify one need or preference your traveler may have.