Hotel Management

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Best Western The Dartmouth Hotel, Golf and Spa

Vine Hotels are happy to tailor make a Management package to suit your individual needs and would love the opportunity to talk to you about your business.

Finance

To ensure smooth control of the business, we can provide the following support functions.

• Account processing from daily banking and cash control to full P&L accounting
• Monthly and three monthly and annual forecasting
• Value of business on the books
• Debtors analysis
• Creditors analysis
• Purchasing analysis and supplier purchasing advice
• Cash handling analysis
• Liquor stock management ~ including monthly reports
• Food stock management ~ including monthly reports
• Financial controls in place
• Review of point of sale systems for F&B

HR

One of the highest costs in the business, it is very important that any organisation has the right skills and knowledge to develop their people. There are many tools available to help and support this function and these can be used in a number of ways to support your team. We can implement the following:

• Up to date training plan
• Employee records keeping
• Recruitment procedures
• Statutory training
• Team development
• Benchmarking against industry norms
• Adherence to legislation

Compliance

• Legal compliance
• Health & safety
• Food Safety
• Fire, Life Safety
• Insurance
• Water testing

Sales and Marketing

• Full annual sales and marketing plan
• Review of local advertising
• Carry out a competitor analysis SWOT
• Evaluate current local corporate contracts
• Review of current and lapsed users
• Review activity with main booking agents
• Review activity with major web sites
• On the road sales presence
• Public relations activity
• Online and direct marketing
• Hotel website management with opportunity to feature promotions/offers

Group Purchasing

To ensure that all purchases for the business are made at best market prices from a list of nominated, industry suppliers. Including:

• Food purchasing
• Liquor purchasing
• Laundry
• Energy
• Boiler plant, fire alarm system and kitchen maintenance contracts
• Guest Supplies
• Stationery

Rooms Management

• Evaluate rooms sales strategies
• Evaluate room rate strategies being offered to the market
• Monitor competitor rates and benchmark your hotels performance by using external sources
• Improvement of Yield and inventory management internally
• Review local corporate deals and usage
• Review Corporate Agents business and optimise sales through Global Distribution Channel
• Review third party web sites and ecommerce policy