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Driving Question: How do we create a unique hotel experience to drive custom?

Launch activity:

Create a Unique Experience Hotel/Resort

Discuss these questions:

1. Why is a unique experience important for a business?

2. What makes up the experience in a hotel/resort?

3. What resort ideas can you find that already exist?

4. What are your best three ideas?

5. Discuss and decide upon one

Check the webpages on the next page

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Driving Question: How do we create a unique hotel experience to drive custom?

Launch activity:

Create a Unique Experience Hotel/Resort

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The activities

The food

The entertainment

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The building

The staff

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Driving Question: How do we create a unique hotel experience to drive custom?

Launch activity:

Create a Unique Experience Hotel/Resort

You can now start to sketch out your unique ideas visually. Remember to include:

An overall theme

A building design

Ideas for entertainment, food and activities that fit the theme

Check the examples on the next page

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Here are some example designs

Take your time to make them professional. Create a rough plan collectively.

One person can draw, others can write and plan text, another can colour etc.

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Brief:

You are going to learn about the key aspects of running a resort or hotel. You will consider food, quality of service, interior and exterior design, event management and activity design, marketing and branding in order to produce a leisure proposition that appeals to people interested in sustainability and fairness, but also like to have a good time…

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Assign roles - what will each person do?

Working in teams of 4 students assign appropriate roles for your project. Some tasks might need discussion as a team, others can be left for one person to report back findings.

You should also spend some time planning your project. What deadlines will you set for l?

You can use Project Management tools

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Task 1: Create a report on the jobs available in the sector

Research at least 30 roles in the accommodation, hospitality and catering industry

  1. Look into pay, skills, qualifications, tasks and so on
  2. Can you sort the careers in to groups of similar roles?
  3. Consider how technology and community values are impacting on careers in the sector

Use the links and videos on the next couple of pages to help you

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Meet the team

Listen to… in the video - He will talk about the types of work at the club and the skills required to do the jobs.

Task 1: Create a report on the jobs available in the sector

Research at least 30 roles in the accommodation, hospitality and catering industry

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Task 1: Create a report on the jobs available in the sector

Useful Links

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Task 1: Create a report on the jobs available in the sector

Create a Job description for one role (each) that you may consider working within the accommodation, hospitality and catering industry - present this to the group

Include the following:

Job Description

Skills and Qualities

Qualifications

Pay Scale

Location

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Task 2a: The Importance of the Menu

Create a themed food menu to fit the brand

You will need to answer these questions

1. Why is a themed menu important?

2. What style fits into your experience?

3. What meals are you going to include?

4. What does a high quality menu look like?

5. How is the food explained to the guests?

6. How will the staff be trained?

Use the content on the next slides to support your planning for this activity

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Now hear from the experts……

The HIT Training team talk about Themed Menu Design

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Task 2a: The Importance of the Menu

Create a themed food menu to fit the brand

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Task 2b: The importance of setting and furnishings

Design your hotel interior and exterior

You will need to answer/complete these questions/tasks:

1. What difference does the design of the inside and outside of the hotel make?

2. What features do you need to include to support your hotel experience?

3. How do you want your guests to feel?

4. How will you achieve that?

5. Create a mood board of images that portray the feeling you want guests to have.

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Now hear from the experts……

The HIT Training team talk about Hotel Design

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Task 2b: The importance of setting and furnishings

Design your hotel interior and exterior

Here are some useful links to support you:

Hotel Interior Design: What you need...

Why Furniture Matters!

12 Things to Consider When Buying Hotel Furniture | Ep. #314

How do Hotels Make a Great Room?

The Importance of Exteriors

How to make a Mood Board

Once you’ve done some research, use your mood board to help you design a room in your hotel and the building itself

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Task 2c: The activities and events

Create a timetable of events

You will need to be able to answer these questions

1. What interesting activities/events could you organise that fits your experience?

2. What does it take to organise an event/activities?

3. When are the best times for different activities?

Use the resources over the next two slides to help you

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Now hear from the experts……

The HIT Training team talk about Events Management

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Task 2c: The activities and events

Create a timetable of events

You can use

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Task 3a: Staff Training

Design a training handbook

Driving Question: How do we create a unique hotel experience to drive custom?

You will need to be able to answer these questions:

1. What are the critical knowledge, skills and behaviours you want your staff to have?

2. What difference would this make to the business?

3. Create a two page training guide with instructions and images

Use the resources over the next three slides to help you

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Now hear from the experts……

The HIT Training team talk about the key aspects of guest care

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Task 3a: Staff Training

Design a training handbook

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Task 3b: Marketing and Promotion

Design a brochure or launch video

You will need to be able to answer these questions:

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Now hear from the experts……

The

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Task 3b: Marketing and Promotion

Design a brochure or launch video

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Task 4: Presentation

Present your overall Hotel/Resort Brand

You now need to present your overall Hotel/Resort package as a pitch to HIT Training. Remember to include all the elements of your project:

-Brand and Brochure

-Menu

-Setting

-Events

-Staff Training

Have a look at some of these pitches to get an idea:

Dragons' Den Pitches

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Reflection:

How well did you collaborate and communicate as a team?

  • Collaboration - the ability to to work collaboratively to identify and create solutions to academic, social, vocational and personal challenges
  • Communication: the ability to communicate effectively to clearly organise data, findings and thoughts.
  • Critical thinking and complex problem solving - the ability to think critically and solve complex problems. These tools include data analysis, statistical reasoning, and scientific inquiry as well as creativity, nonlinear thinking, and persistence.
  • Character development - this skill requires students to accept responsibility for expending the time and energy necessary to think about a task, select the proper learning strategies, and judge how well those strategies are working. When students encounter difficulty or setbacks, this skill development requires students to diagnose the type of difficulty they are facing, select appropriate strategies to resolve the difficulty, and continue forward toward their learning goal.

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