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Industry : Hotels & Resorts
Department : Front of House
Location : Bahrain, Bahrain
Level : Staff Line level
Posted : 07 Jul 2024
Job Role : Reservations Agent
Recruiter : Accor Hotels
Job Ref : HOZ20638
Employment Type: Permanent
Job Type :
Validate Through : 2024-08-04
Salary Description: Competetive Salary Offered
Accor
Company Description
"Why work for Accor?
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By joining Accor, every chapter of your story is yours to write and together we can imagine tomorrow's hospitality. Discover the life that awaits you at Accor, visit https://careers.accor.com/
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Job Description
- Responsible for all rooms enquiries, reservations, confirmations, cancellations and operating yield management to ensure highest rates and occupancy are achieved.
- Communicate with front office, sales team, and senior management.
- Operate an efficient reservations department to ensure highest occupancy is achieved.
- Yield rates to ensure highest possible rates are achieved.
- Responsible for all individual, corporate, fit and Group bookings.
- Negotiate rates with guests, companies and travel agents as required.
- Ensure the completion of all reservations.
- In charged of all room enquiries, bookings, administration, deposits, payments and follow ups.
- Monitor websites for incoming reservations.
- Monitor future availability in order to set-up rates to be sold on intranet, on websites and open/close availability as required.
- Monitor daily availability and keep front office informed of best rates to sell.
- Operate wait list on busy days to ensure maximum occupancy
- Record turnaways on busy dates.
- Follow up charges on no show bookings.
- Show prospective clients around the hotel.
- Perform miscellaneous job-related duties as assigned.
- Be aware of and share all knowledge of competitor activity with Deputy Manager i/c RDV, Rates Manager and Sales Team.
- Liaise with Sales & Marketing department in the setting up of yearly rates and to be aware of monthly/yearly targets.
- Ensure all emails are replied to on a daily basis.
- When necessary to follow up out bookings and send apology if required.
- Perform regular checks of future bookings.
- Provide any reports required by the General Manager / Ass Manager / Director of Sales.
- Attend relevant promotional / PR events when required.
- Brief all Head of Departments of business on the books on a daily basis.
- Attend regular management meetings.
Qualifications
• University graduate / Hotel Management or related course. • At least 5 years experience in the same capacity preferrably in 4* or 5* Hotels.
Additional Information
- Health in good condition
- Fluent in English language and conversational Arabic
Atithi Jaiswal
Mumbai, India