PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS OF MANAGEMENT OF HOTELS (A CASE) STUDY OF HOTEL PRESIDENTIAL

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

1.0.         BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

Hotel industry is define as the establishment responsible for provision of food, drinks and accommodation to quests who are willing to pay for services rendered to them and who are in the state to be received.  

iIt occupies a significant place in industrial soctor fo Nigeria and the world at large. It provides job opportunity, foreign exchange as well as helping in the light of all these that every country likes to manage its hotel industry well to enhance the hotel development system of management can be simple of complex matters in this preventing economic depression of our country.

In helping to develop hotel industries in Nigeria  government establishment oatering schools can encourage individuals to set up caterig schools. Commerece and tourism commission set up its standard which every catering school must meet in terms of grading and classificaton. There are also designed courses for instrucrtions  in hotel industries both at local and international level. All these were mad to address the problem of hotel industries in the country. But despite all these a loc of problems persisted. There were cases of gross qualified personnel and poor human relation. As a result of these problems, government in it’s effort to encourage hotel development    decided in conjunction with national board for technical education (N.B.TE),  and international training fund (ITF) to encourage the introduction of hotel management courses at advance level despite these efforts by the government, it was discovered that these problems continued to exist- these therefore from the basis for this study with a critical look at H OTE PRESIDENTIAL ENUGU.

PROBLEM(S) ASSOCIATED WITH THE SUBJECT MATTER

Hotel industries account for a large proportion of individual (quest in this country and are faced with numerous problem. These problems under the  growth and development of hotel industries in this country. Thereby limiting their potential contributions to the development of this nation’s economy.