Last updated: May 1, 2026
Student: Axana Gordon
Course Unit: L5 THM230913 Hotel Operations Management
Learning Outcome 1: Pass 78%
You demonstrate a solid and structured understanding of hotel operational differences between budget/select-service and full-service upscale properties. Your responses show clear applied reasoning and good awareness of staffing intensity, service expectations, and how positioning shapes operational complexity. Your strongest areas are in practical operational logic and realistic recommendations, particularly in Question 7 where your suggestions are feasible and aligned with each hotel's positioning.
Improvements: You need to deepen analytical depth by explicitly applying hotel operations theory. For example, referencing service intensity models, the service gap model, ADR/RevPAR logic, or spatial efficiency principles would elevate your evaluation from strong applied reasoning to academic-level analytical depth. Some responses, particularly in Questions 4 and 5, would benefit from more expanded systems thinking and measurable business impact analysis.
Overall, this is a well-structured and logically argued submission that meets Learning Outcome 1 requirements with competence and clarity."
Learning Outcome 2: Pass 80%
Your response to Task 1 demonstrates a solid practical understanding of communication breakdowns in a full-service hotel environment. You correctly identified key interdepartmental failures and clearly explained their impact on guest experience, staff performance, and operational efficiency. Your proposed communication strategies were realistic, relevant, and logically linked to improving service flow. This shows good applied operational reasoning."
Learning Outcome 3: Pass 78%
Axana, your submission demonstrates a clear and practical understanding of contemporary operational trends in hotel management. You show good awareness of how digitalisation, sustainability pressures, and labour shortages affect guest expectations, staff performance, operational efficiency, and long-term competitiveness. Your strongest areas are your practical reasoning and your ability to propose realistic hotel-based strategies, especially your recognition that technology should support staff rather than replace them and that sustainability must become part of daily operations rather than remain a marketing claim.
To improve future work, you should develop your analysis with more measurable operational indicators. For example, when discussing digitalisation, sustainability, or labour shortages, include specific targets such as reduced check-in time, lower energy usage, improved guest satisfaction, reduced staff turnover, or improved room-readiness rates. You should also strengthen your use of formal hotel operations theory and academic terminology. Overall, this is a competent and well-applied response that meets the LO3 requirements and earns a clear pass."
Learning Outcome 4: "Incomplete/Fail
No Attempt"
LO1:
96.25%LO2:
98.75%LO3:
87.50%LO4:
90%