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Yordanka Mitkova Iliykova
Opportunities for Optimizing Accounting and Analysis of Costs, Relating to Buffet Restaurants of Hotels
Summary:
A problem in the hotels that provide the "buffet" service, the price of which is included in that for overnight stay in the room, is the accounting and the effective control of the full use of the allowances groceries in finished kitchen products. Keeping track of changes in the prices of supplying goods at the height of the tourist season („Food and Beverage Cost Control“), the calculation of so-called "Food Costs for Day" and "Beverage Costs for Day", and frequent inventory inventories to excample date, relation to accurate and true cost accounting for a certain period, are objectively necessary.
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Snejina Kadieva
Àdditional Sevices in Hospitality as a Tool for Enhancing Customer Satisfaction
Summary:
The article aims at examining the nature, characteristics and classification of additional services in the hospitality industry. Their role and importance for adding value to the hotel product and increasing customer satisfaction are outlined. Special attention is paid to the modern aspects in offering additional services. The emphasis is on the effect of introducing digital technology on innovation when offering additional services in the modern hospitality business.
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Petya Emilova, Kremena Marinova
Innovative Solutions and Technologies in Tourism as an Opportunity for Digitalization of the Hotel Business
Summary:
Modern information and communication technologies are a factor for achieving effective management in the tourism sector and in particular hotels, and for this purpose they need to implement appropriate to their scale and requirements modern hotel information systems.
The purpose of this article is to study the hotel information systems offered on the software market and in particular those that successfully combine leading innovative trends such as application in the business of web technologies, cloud solutions and others. In this regard, the following tasks have been solved: the possibilities of Web 2.0 technologies, cloud services and Internet of Things (IoT) technology as important technological factors for the development of the tourism and hotel industry have been analyzed; the peculiarities and functional possibilities of the hotel information systems are presented; criteria for selection of hotel information system are outlined; în this basis, a comparative analysis of the web-based hotel information systems offered on the software market has been made; factors and recommendations for selection and implementation are defined.
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Pavlin Pavlov
State and Development of „The Green Hospitality“ in Bulgaria
Summary:
The number of tourists aware of the great importance of environmental problems is constantly increasing. As a result, the number of eco-entrepreneurship initiatives in the hospitality industry has gradually increased. Therefore, the aim of the present scientific research is to establish the situation and to follow the development of the „green hospitality“ in Bulgaria, as well as to outline the prerequisites and the main obstacles for the creation of „green hotels“.