Hotel manager
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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