Hospitality Management

A key element of providing that level of good service involves the most basic task of being able to communicate with one's guests, which requires - in most parts of the United States today - both staff who speak languages other than English as well as (probably even more importantly) a sensitivity to a multicultural clientele. While training existing hospitality staff in languages and cross-cultural sensitivity is thus of course important, hotels and other hospitality institutions should also actively pursue staff who are themselves from other cultures and are already multilingual.

The addition to any staff of people from a range of cultures does introduce some new complexities. Although it is a clichT of the business world, it is nonetheless also true that no business that neglects - or abuses - its workers can prosper for long. Badly trained, badly prepared, or badly treated workers do not do their best - and indeed, why should they? The best way to get the most out of a worker is to ensure that that worker feels appreciated and respected, and it is the job of those i

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