o All hotel facilities / services, hours of operation.
o Room availability for any given day.
o Restricted dates, rates and room types.
o All room rates, packages and promotions.
o Specific arrangements between hotel and travel agencies, corporate reservations center.
o Entertainment / special events scheduled in the hotel.
- Take personal responsibility for driving up selling, achieving set revenue targets by months.
- Be fully aware at all times of the sales strategy, rates, packages and booking status of the hotel.
Customer Service Role :
- Provide customer services to local tour operators and travel agencies in a friendly and expedient manner.
- Communicates effectively with all guests and colleagues.
- Ensure all issues relating to guest satisfaction that have been raised to the reservations team are reported monitored, and followed up on a timely basis.
- Monitor and maintain guest satisfaction by ensuring all guest requests are carried out, all realistic expectations are met, and reservations are honored.
- Provide additional guest service such as transportation, visa requests, restaurant reservations and tours.
- Offer the alternative dates, waitlists or sister hotels to guests on overbooked situations.
Administrative Role :
- Adhere to all Dusit International Standard Operating Procedures.
- Maintain high standards of data quality through regular data cleansing activities.
- Manage all reservation requests, changes, and cancellations in compliance with the hotel’s business strategy.
- Reply to all guest requests within 24 hours of receipt.
- Ensure effective office administrative procedures that will safeguard and detect double-bookings, non-guaranteed bookings, filing errors and other inaccuracies, as well as guest data privacy and security.
- Able and understand hotel policies for no-shows, cancellations, credit and pre-payment policies.
- Handle daily trace / follow up reports according to the requirements.
RELATIONSHIP
- Assist reservation leaders to effectively manage and operate the reservations department in order to meet the business goals of the hotel and maximize guest satisfaction.
- Maintain clear and complete booking correspondences in order to properly communicate with the Front Office team to achieve guest satisfaction.
- Interact with all customers (internal and external) in a friendly, helpful and expedient manner.
ACCOUNTABILITIES
- Understand the roles of Sales, GSOs and Front Office in relation to the role of reservations.
- Liaise with IT in report and faults on telephone lines or computer network.
- Proactively promote other sister properties of the Dusit Hotels and Resorts.
- Maintain a good working environment within the department, and also maintains a positive working relationship with other departments in the hotel.
TECHNICAL RESPONSIBILITIES
- Knowledge of technical and managerial applications of the following systems and their utilization:
- Opera Property Management System (OPMS)
- GDS Interface (GDS)
- Oasis Hospitality Software (PMS for China Properties)
COMMERCIAL RESPONSIBILITIES
- Maintain high level of effective communications with guests and colleagues.
- Exercise and ensure proper selling and up-selling techniques to help in generating maximum revenue for the hotel.
HUMAN RESOURCES RESPONSIBILITIES
- Adhere to the grooming standard and the Hotel’s policy and ensure that the reservations team follow the same.
- Maintain good relationship with his/her colleagues and other departments.
- Develop him/herself to be able to grow in the company.
OTHERS
- Continuous learning through own IDP.
- Any other duties as may be assigned by the superior.
ACCOUNTABILITIES
- Represent Dusit’s brand and its values at all times. Establish relationships and foremost deliver an exceptional guest experience and promote Thai graciousness.
COMPANY’S CULTURE
- Communicate and fully embrace the Company’s culture (our Vision, our Mission and our Values), lead by example and cascade to all your subordinates – “Proud to belong and to contribute”.
CONFIDENTIALITY
- Ensure confidentiality and secure storage of all intellectual property and databases, both hard copy and electronic. Adhere to Dusit Internet and E-mail policy. Ensure Hotel, Customer and Staff information or transactions are kept confidential during or after employment with the company.
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
- Minimum education of Bachelor degree in hotel management, Business Administration or relevant discipline.
- Minimum of 1 year in relevant experience in a similar capacity.
- Basic experience with OPMS and all related system and its day to day support.
- Good knowledge of Microsoft office programs.
- Enthusiastic and self-motivated, according to Dusit International’s core values.
- Ability to communicate effectively and professionally in written and spoken English.