2020-2021 Catalog 
    
    Apr 28, 2024  
2020-2021 Catalog [PREVIOUS CATALOG YEAR]

HOS 150 - Hospitality Property Management


Description: Examination of planning, implementing, and monitoring the hospitality operation environment with the aim of enhancing the guest experience by fostering a proactive approach to compliance, conformance to standards and competitiveness. Includes design and layout of guestrooms, lobbies, food outlets, and recreation outlets as it pertains to maintenance and housekeeping; product and service analysis; inventory control; preventative maintenance; renovations; liability; protecting guests and their property; asset protections; grounds and landscaping; ecology; and transportation.

Credits: 3
Lecture: 3
Course Content:
  1. Inn keeping legal practices
  2. Security of guests, guestrooms, and employees
  3. Inn keeping safety
  4. Departmental responsibilities in guest and assets protection
  5. Ecology
  6. Housekeeping human resouorces and organization
  7. Expenses, inventory, and bar stock control
  8. Guestroom and public areas
  9. Ceilings, wall, furniture, and fixtures
  10. Beds, linens, and uniforms
  11. Carpets and floors
  12. Bathroom furnishings and fixtures
  13. Industry research 

Learning Outcomes:
  1. Use industry policies and practices to legally protect the guest and property. (1)
  2. Securely protect guestrooms, guests, and employees. (2)
  3. Identify and reduce the risks associated with slip, trip, fall, fire, water systems, power outages, air quality, food borne illness, and bed bugs. (3)
  4. Explain departmental responsibilities in guest and asset protection. (4)
  5. Recognize the purpose and process of a green certified hospitality operation including the impact of ecological and psycho-environment principles on hospitality operation design and layout. (5)
  6. Select and train an executive housekeeper and guest room attendants. (6)
  7. Describe methods to determine par stock and inventory control for linens, uniforms, guest loan items, equipment, cleaning products, in-room products. (7)
  8. Inspect and clean a model guestroom (8)
  9. Minimize potential for physical injury in public areas of Inn. (8)
  10. Construct concepts of ceilings, walls, furniture, and fixtures. (9)
  11. Choose beds, linens, and uniforms. (10)
  12. Choose carpets and floors. (11)
  13. Choose bathroom furnishings and fixtures. (12)
  14. Analyze and use common industry issue or practice to design and inform traditional ideas of guestrooms, lobbies, food outlets, and recreation outlets. (13)