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Hospitality Assured is the quality standard created by the Institute of Hospitality specifically for customer facing businesses. The Hospitality Assured process encourages businesses to look at their own operation for the customer’s perspective and to see where improvements should be made to benefit the business. This is done by looking at how businesses score against the criteria in the 10 step standard. |
Hospitality Assured was created for the industry by the industry and the development of the standard was undertaken by the then HCIMA in collaboration with representatives of the University of Surrey, Geyton Consultancy and MQA amongst others. The objective was to create a standard that took into account the unique characteristics of such a diverse industry. A wide range of practices were reviewed across business in the service sector and the specification was modelled on the European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM) excellence concepts.
Using the standard and reviewing how they do business using the 10 steps allows customers to see how well they are doing in relation to their own aspirations. In addition being assessed and scored allows them to compare their performance with others operating in their sector and with HA businesses in general.
The Hospitality Assured framework can help to:
Hospitality Assured has clients from a wide range of sectors within the hospitality industry that include: