Occupancy Reports Samples For Students

Xenia Hotels & Resorts, Inc.: Financial Ratio Analysis

Introduction
Financial ratios divulge valuable information to the management of a firm that guides them in making significant operational and strategic decisions for their organizations. Financial ratio analysis is a significant technique that is used to analyze financial statements. Accounting ratios are a source of valuable information that helps the management of a firm to understand the financial state of their companies and be able to formulate strategies that will help them achieve the desired financial goals. Activity ratios, for instance, are used to judge the efficiency of the firm in using various assets that it has to generate ...

Analysis of LaSalle Hotel Properties

Introduction: Importance of ratio analysis
Financial ratios are important in analysing the financial performance of an organization. The financial performance is a key factor in the management of the organization. Financial ratios simplify the financial statements such as the income statement hence managers can easily determine whether the organization is profitable or not. For instance, profitability ratios such as the net profit margin indicate whether the organization is profitable or not. Managers can then identify areas of weaknesses and take corrective actions to improve the profitability of the organization. They are also used to assess the liquidity of an ...

Introduction

The growth of the hospitality industry plays a significant role in the development of country’s economy in terms of income generation, employment opportunities, social and cultural transformation. Hospitality and tourism is a service-based industry due to which utmost importance must be provided to promotional campaigns (Ernst & Young, 2013). A promotional campaign for hospitality is unique as it deals with tangible products, like bed and food, but also deals with the intangible aspects such as experience and social status (Barrows, & Powers, 2008).
The aim of this study is to develop a promotional campaign to significantly influence the travelers and tourists to ...

The Emerald is a 4-star hotel located in the city center and offers an assortment of services. The major goal of the management is the provision of comfort and unpretentious luxury and charm along with the integration of the best available technology. The hotel currently accommodates leisure tourists, business travelers, contracts, and small and large groups of people. It consists of 250 rooms (200 standard and 50 premium rooms). It also has a restaurant with 125 available seats and adjoining 50 seats in the bar lounge section. In addition, The Emerald has a bay exercise room, a conference and ...

INTRODUCTION

Financial ratio analysis is one of the key techniques for evaluating a company’s financial position. Financial ratios help getting additional information about financial performance of a company that might not be obvious from its financial statements (Erhardt and Brigham 89). They enable the management to evaluate the operating performance of the company in dynamics. Besides, the managers may track their financial goals achievement with the help of this type of analysis as ratios are widely used in planning and setting future performance goals (1). Moreover, the ratios are used to compare performance of companies within one industry, including ...

Introduction

Glorious Hotel (Glorious) is a small family run hotel located in the popular ski resort of Leysin Switzerland. The hotel is currently run by the third generation of its founders. The hotel focused on a niche market of skiers who visit Switzerland every winter. Rather than just being a hotel that offered boarding services, it also had a small spa to cate to the needs of the hotel’s visitors. The hotel also had a small bar that also accepts visitors who do not used it boarding services. With a boarding capacity of just 40 rooms, the revenues of the hotel were limited. However, since ...

The Strategic Issues facing Mandarin Oriental Hotel in London

Mandarin Oriental Hotel in London has been a success story, especially in 2011. Its performance has been boosted by high occupancy and strong demand, especially from the leisure travelers. In its efforts to be recognized as the world’s best luxury hotel, the company is faced with various strategic issues, both internally and externally. This section describes the strategic issues.

Internal

Maintaining the brand image - Mandarin Oriental Hotel already has a strong brand name and image; however, maintaining this brand remains a strategic issue. The company continues to invest in exceptional facilities, and creates some of the world’s most desired properties. It maintains ...

The airline industry is considered to be highly competitive and therefore airline company managers will need to determine the relevance of their current ERP systems with regards to the applicability of the financial information it generates. This is because the same quantitative and qualitative information is used for both financial and management accounting. However, the main goal of a company is to generate better profitability for its owners while remaining sustainable. This is done by controlling costs while improving revenues through the use of budgets and the standardization of costs and results to variances, which are primarily under management ...

Introduction

Genting Singapore is an international hospitality company that deals with integrated resort development and gaming (Genting 2017). Specifically, the company builds integrated resorts and runs casinos as its core business. It also consults for the hospitality industry businesses and investments in the area of sales and marketing support. Besides, it offers information technology services such as software development, systems integration and maintenance among others. Its markets of operation include Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, the Bahamas, Australia and the UK. The company that began as Genting International was first listed on the Singapore Securities exchange in 2005. It acquired the Stanley ...

- Key supply and demand issues of Singapore’s conference industry
Every industry has a number of challenges that it has to go through. It is upon the management of the industries to devise ways of mitigating some of the issues that may arise in the course of the operation of various business models. The conferencing industry experiences several issues in relation to demand and supply. Some of the issues lead to positive development of the industry while others lead to negative impacts in the operation of the industry. This section is dedicated towards analyzing demand and supply issues ...

Corporate objectives

According to McDonald (2002), a corporate objective describes a desired result or destination and most often it is expressed in terms of profit. Thus, when people talk about objectives, they mean actual results that are expected in a certain period of time. In the case of Melia Hotel, which is described in this paper, corporate objectives refer to the way the company sees itself in the future, the position it wants to hold in the market and the other aspects of its functioning. Below, the main Melia’s objectives will be analyzed in detail, especially the ones company’s administration usually focuses ...

[City and State]

Introduction

Structures such as large buildings can create its own unique internal environment that can significantly impact the comfort and health of its occupants. After many years of investigating and studying building infrastructures, engineers and designers have increased their understanding and knowledge on the environmental conditions that exists within the building in relation to its physical properties. For the same reason, a solid background in building physics is an integral part of a building’s design, particularly in this modern era wherein green buildings are the rising trend. Most modern buildings integrate building physics prior to construction ...

Industry Overview

Senegal is a West African country located along the Atlantic Ocean coastline. Its neighboring countries include Mauritania, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, guinea, and Gambia. The terrain of Senegal is generally low and flat, with rolling plains that rise to the foothills located in the southeast. Senegal covers an area of about 196,722 square kilometers, with a coastline stretching to about 531 km (Global Edge, 2015). By 2014, the population of the country stood at 14.7 million, with an annual growth rate of 3.126% (Global Edge, 2015). About 43% of this population stays in the urban centers. Senegal is one of ...

The Westmount Retirement Residence is a care center for the elderly located in Ontario. Since its inception in 1997, the facility has offered various services to its clients at a profit. In the recent days however, the company has had reduced profitability. This has caught the attention of the administrator, prompting her to come up with a way of increasing profits.

Despite offering high quality services, competition has increased and this has negatively affected the company. The pricing policy has been found to be flawed and ineffective. For this reason, a new pricing model which will ensure profitability is being sought.
This ...