Hotel manager

:"This article is about hotel management in practice. For academic study of hotel management, see Hospitality management studies and Hospitality industry."

A hotel manager or hotelier is a person who handles the everyday function and management of a hotel. Larger hotels often have management teams, instead of individual managers, where each member of the group begins to specialize on a certain area of interest.

Occupational tasks

Some of the responsibilities of a hotel manager include:

* organizing and directing the hotel's services
** concierge
** reception
** reservations
** catering
* controlling budget and formulating financial plans
* promoting the business
** marketing
** advertising
* archiving profits and expenses
* meeting with customers, contractors and suppliers
* hiring, training, reviewing and overseeing staff members
* attending to problems or customer complaints and comments
* addressing maintenance and upkeep
* seeing to accommodations
** furniture
* meeting safety, health and licensing regulations
** security