
Check-in Check-Out
Managing Hotel Operations
Pearson (Publisher)
9th Edition
Published on 28. August 2012
Book
Hardback
480 pages
978-0-13-270671-1 (ISBN)
Description
Now in its Ninth Edition, Check-in Check-Out remains the leading guide to managing profitable hotel operations. Extensively revised to reflect the industry's rapid change, it presents rich detail about best practices and future directions, while offering the widest coverage of any book in the field. Students gain an intuitive understanding based on the flow of the guest's experience: through reservation, arrival, registration, service purchasing, departure, billing, and recordkeeping. The entire rooms division is covered thoroughly, and linked to other hospitality functions, related industries, and the broader economy. Extensive new coverage includes: increased internationalization; green operations; new financing sources; boutique and urban collections; new reservations strategies; and much more. This edition has been streamlined to help students learn more in less time, and contains 150+ exhibits to promote visual learning.
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Edition
9th edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Pearson Education (US)
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 276 mm
Width: 216 mm
Weight
1100 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-13-270671-1 (9780132706711)
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Previous edition

Gary K. Vallen | Jerome J. Vallen
Check-In Check-Out
Managing Hotel Operations: United States Edition
Book
04/2008
8th Edition
Pearson
€72.82
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Content
PART I: THE HOTEL INDUSTRY
1. The Traditional Hotel Industry
2. The Modern Hotel Industry
3. The Structures of the Hotel Industry
PART II: THE RESERVATIONS PROCESS
4. Forecasting Availability and Overbooking
5. Global Reservations Technologies
6. Individual Reservations and Group Reservations
PART III: GUEST SERVICE AND RATE STRUCTURES
7. Managing Guest Services
8. Arrival, Registration, Assignment and Rooming
9. The Role of the Room Rate
PART IV: THE HOTEL REVENUE CYCLE
10. Billing the Guest Folio
11. Cash or Credit: The City Ledger
PART V: TECHNOLOGY
12. The Night Audit
13. Hotel Technology
GLOSSARY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
1. The Traditional Hotel Industry
2. The Modern Hotel Industry
3. The Structures of the Hotel Industry
PART II: THE RESERVATIONS PROCESS
4. Forecasting Availability and Overbooking
5. Global Reservations Technologies
6. Individual Reservations and Group Reservations
PART III: GUEST SERVICE AND RATE STRUCTURES
7. Managing Guest Services
8. Arrival, Registration, Assignment and Rooming
9. The Role of the Room Rate
PART IV: THE HOTEL REVENUE CYCLE
10. Billing the Guest Folio
11. Cash or Credit: The City Ledger
PART V: TECHNOLOGY
12. The Night Audit
13. Hotel Technology
GLOSSARY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX