Management Problem And Prospects Of Hotels

MANAGEMENT PROBLEM AND PROSPECTS OF HOTELS

(A CASE STUDY OF ROYAL PALACE HOTELS LTD ENUGU)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Title Page

Certification

Dedication

Acknowledgment

Abstract

Table of Contents

CHAPTER ONE:         INTRODUCTION

1.1            Background of the Study

1.2            Problem(s) Associated with the Subject Matters

1.3            Problem(s) that the Study will be Concerned with

1.4            Importance of Studying the Area

1.5            Definition of Important Terms

1.6            Reference

CHAPTER TWO:        LITERATURE REVIEW

2.1            An Overview of Hotel Industry

2.2            The School of Thought Relevant to the problem of Study

2.3            Different Methods of Studying the Problems

2.4            Summary

2.5            References

CHAPTER THREE:             CONCLUSION

3.1            Data Presentation

3.2            Data Analysis

3.3            Recommendation

3.4            Conclusion

3.5            References

3.6            Bibliography

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

1.1            BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

Hotel industry is defined as the establishment responsible for prevision of food, drinks and accommodation to guests who are willing to pay for services rendered to them and who are in the state to be received.

It occupies a significant place in industrial sector of Nigeria and the world at large.   It provides job opportunity, foreign exchange as well as helping in the light of all these that every country likes to manage its hotel industry well to enhance the hotel development.

System of management can be simple or complex matters in this prevailing economic depression of our country.   In helping to develop hotel industries in Nigeria, government establishment catering schools can encourage individuals to set up catering schools.

Commerce and Tourism commission set up its standard which every catering school must meet in terms of grading and classification.   There are also designed courses for instructions in hotel industries both at local and international levels.   All these were made to address the problem of hotel industries in the country.   But despite all these, a lot of problems persisted.  

There were cases of gross qualified personnel and poor human relations.   As a result of these problems, government in its effort to encourage hotel development, decide of in conjunction with National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) and International Training Fund (ITF), to encourage the introduction of hotel management courses at advance level. Despite these efforts by the government it was discovered that these problems continued to exist.    These therefore, form the basis for this study with a critical look at Royal Palace Hotels Limited Enugu.

1.2            PROBLEM (S) ASSOCIATED WITH THE SUBJECT MATER

Hotel industries account for a large proportion of individual (guest) in this country and are faced with numerous problems.   These problems hinder the growth and development of hotel industries in this country, thereby limiting their potential contributions to the development of this nation is economy.

However, the hotel industries have many roles they play in the economic development of less developed country like Nigeria, of course they remain important in the economies.   The problems of hotel industries are lack of funds by the proprietors and the difficulty they encounter in raising funds.