Managing Facilities provides a clear introduction to the concepts, development and application of managing facilities in hotels. Premises and services operations management are considered through the application of generic management techniques.
In hotels, buildings, land, assets, people and services are essential resources which need to be managed to meet organizational objectives. Through practical techniques and examples, Jowett and Jones show how these facilities can be continuously improved to increase competitiveness and meet the ever changing needs of the customer.
Managing Facilities is:
- the only UK book to reflect modern facilities management practices in hospitality
- full of practical examples
- a reference source and introduction in one format
Managing Facilities is a concise guide for hotel, hospitality and facilities managers. It is also an excellent text for undergraduate and postgraduate students of hospitality management.
Val Jowett MSc FHCIMA is Principal Lecturer at Leeds Metropolitan University and has taught Accommodation Management, and now Facilities Management, for over 25 years. In her earlier career she worked for British Transport hotels and then in Domestic Services Management in the N.H.S. She has taught in the USA and India and now manages a series of developmental initiatives which centre around NVQs, mentoring and careers development learning.
Christine Jones BA MIMgt MHCIMA is the Head of School of Business and Professional Studies at Burton Upon Trent College. She has a wide range of occupational and research experience in the hospitality industry and has held teaching posts in a number of Further and Higher Educationalestablishments.
The only UK book to reflect modern facilities management practices in hospitality
Practical examples throughout
Reference source & introduction in one format

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Through this book, you will be moved by powerful stories of personal loss and triumph. You will learn important tips on how to learn, how to mend fences, how to make the world better, and all the while do it with energy and with a smile. This book is the product of the creative contributions on an extraordinary collection of individuals who sought each other out for the purpose of pushing each other to succeed. We're always seeking like minded folks to join our mastermind. Find us at http://www.alternativebookclub.com.

War is fought, not only on the field and with one's self, but also within the mind. Nothing is what it seems, take nothing for granted. The gifted are fighting for you. Do you have the right to become an entity? Take the challenge and go with them, through their trials and tribulations, whilst tapping into the unfolding, universal truth. Nothing is what it seems, take nothing for granted. Christine Jones has created a masterpiece, a journey beyond imagination. The mind is a locked door; she opens it to a greater knowledge and awareness. Are the Mariard Volumes fantasy or reality? Nothing is what it seems, take nothing for granted.

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Rating - PG - Spiritual literature - Humor Snakelex is a first class demon on assignment to a small country town in Australia. Spiritual warfare will be battled out between good and evil. Snakelex must use every dirty trick in the book to cause chaos in the community and sway those from attending the only church in town. The elite at Hell's head office take an interest in Snakelex and aid him to learn the truth about their enemy and Hell's best kept secrets that mislead and control the lower ranks of Satan's establishment. Manuscript was written in 1995

Obsession with genetic engineering segregated humanity into the perfected and defective. Dictated by science and technology, the search for immortality near destroyed the human race. What remains of mankind, struggles to survive in barbaric clans suppressed by Masters and false doctrine. Known as Project Noah, an underground community seeks to restore civilization by rehabilitating those snatched from the surface. An enemy from the past is out to re-establish a plan to cleanse the earth. Assaults on both the surface and underground survivors reveal devastating truths regarding their sanctuary and savours.

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Romantic comedy for mature audiences Chris O'Keith was a loving wife, mother and practising Christian. The end of her marriage brought a dramatic change of character. Her vicious hatred towards men is public knowledge and has males avoiding her like the plague. Chris and her four children live with Bill, her grandfather, who employs a builder, Rick Eastly, to do extensive renovations. She will attempt to insult and humiliate this builder; however, he can give as much he gets and has Bills full blessing to do so. Rick learns Chris has a secret. Without revealing he knows, he seeks to tame the shrew and get her to openly admit her problem. Manuscript written in 1994

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Diweddariad o'r gyfrol Cyflwyno'r Gymraeg: Llawlyfr i Diwtoriaid (2000) dan olygyddiaeth Christine Jones yw Cyfoethogi'r Cyfathrebu: Llawlyfr Ymarferol i Diwtoriaid Cymraeg i Oedolion. Mae'r gyfrol hon yn cynnwys rhai o benodau'r gyfrol wreiddiol wedi'u diweddaru, ynghyd a phenodau newydd ar feysydd sydd wedi dod yn fwy amlwg yn y maes ers 2000 (er enghraifft, dysgu anffurfiol, addysgu ar-lein, y fframwaith asesu newydd a chyfraniad y maes i bolisiau iaith cenedlaethol). Ceir penodau ar y wers gyntaf, gweithgareddau cyfathrebol, meithrin sgiliau gwahanol megis sgiliau ysgrifennu neu sgiliau gwylio, a phennod agoriadol ar ddulliau dysgu ar dwf y maes a'r syniadau a ddylanwadodd ar fethodoleg dros yr ugeinfed ganrif a'r ganrif hon.