Which department in the hotel has the most potential?

The hotel development department has the most potential.

Whenever you check into any hotel, the front desk staff will check you in with a smile, the housekeeping cleaners will clean your room in order every day, and the restaurant waiters will serve you diligently. Meals... Our impression of hotel industry employees is largely made up of the service staff working in hotels. However, there are many people working in this industry that you don't usually see.

You may have stayed at a hotel under the InterContinental Hotels Group when you came to Shanghai for business, but you may not know that among the 6,400 employees of InterContinental Hotels in Shanghai, about 500 do not work in the hotel; Among the crowd, there is a group that few outsiders pay attention to, and that is the Development Department.

From a piece of vacant land to be developed to a magnificent hotel, the hotel development department can be said to play the role of a "bridgehead" - discovering land with hotel development potential, negotiating cooperation agreements, and supervising projects Landing until the hotel opens smoothly. Hotel revenue is greatly affected by season, climate and economic environment. For hotel management groups, the surest way to ensure profitable growth is to open more hotels, or to be more precise, to manage more hotels for owners. This task mainly relies on the Development Department to achieve breakthroughs.

What exactly do you do when you work in the development department? The vast majority of InterContinental brand hotels adopt a management operation model, that is, the group assigns a general manager to be responsible for recruiting the hotel team, fully responsible for the daily operations of the hotel, and managing the hotel for the owners. Therefore, most of the customers of the development department are real estate developers interested in investing in hotels. business. "When our clients have a piece of land, they will consider what the hotel will be like. Some developers will use external forces to find the kind of consulting company I worked for before to help them with brand positioning, and then the consulting company will assist Contact hotel brands. Some more experienced real estate development companies will not contact third-party consultants, but directly contact our brands. ”