HOSP 1370 - Accommodations: Accommodations II Term Project

Accommodations 2 Housekeeping Assignment

Research a local hotel housekeeping department that is incorporating green sustainable housekeeping into their operations. Talk about the hotel and how they are going green.  

·             Books (subject heading: Hotel housekeeping):

o       High performance hospitality : sustainable hotel case studies / by Michele L. Diener, Amisha Parekh, Jaclyn Pitera. TD 195 H67 D54 2008

o       The professional housekeeper / Madelin Schneider, Georgina Tucker, Mary Scoviak. TX 928 S33 1999 (includes a chapter on “new trends” including environmental practices)

·             British Columbia business-to-business sales & marketing directory. HF 5072 B7 B75 [to find local hotels]

·             http://lhonline.com/green/housekeeping/ Articles from Lodging Hospitality about green housekeeping.

·             http://www.greenlodgingnews.com/default.aspx Green Lodging News

·             http://greenhotels.com “Green” Hotels Association (American)

·             http://www.hotelassociation.ca/site/programs/green_key.htm Hotel Association of Canada – Green Key Program

·             http://www.tourismvancouver.com/stay/hotels-with-eco-friendly-amenities/ Tourism Vancouver Green Hotels page

Topic of your choice: housekeeping related. Think about topics from the course. You should seek out a local hotel to base your research on or find examples of articles online.

·             Books in VCC Library catalogue:

o       Subject heading: Hotel housekeeping

o       Subject heading: Hotel management + Your topic

o       Subject heading: Hotels + Your topic

·             British Columbia business-to-business sales & marketing directory. HF 5072 B7 B75 [to find local hotels]

If you do not have a local hotel included in your research you must reference at least one article.

Conducting Research: Use the library

Magazines:  Executive housekeeping Today, Hotelier magazine, Western Hotelier

o       Cornell Hospitality Quarterly

o       Executive Housekeeping Today

o       Hotel Management

o       Hotelier

o       Innfocus

o       Lodging

o       Lodging Hospitality, also online: http://lhonline.com/

o       Western Hotelier

Article databases:

o       Hospitality and Tourism Complete

o       Business Source Premier

o       Canadian Newsstand

o       Academic Search Premier

Make contact with a Housekeeping department of a hotel.  

Format

1.       Maximum 4 pages written- no title page, no table of contents, no pictures

2.       Double spaced

3.       Font size 12

4.       Font choices: Arial, Courier, Times New Roman

5.       References using APA format(see links below):

·             http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/

·             http://www.library.ubc.ca/home/about/instruct/apastyle.html

·             http://library.vcc.ca/research/research_apamla.cfm