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When evaluating hotel performance for the sake of implementing strategic goals, all management aspects have to be assessed. Interior of a hotel plays a very important role in formation of customer loyalty and satisfaction. Read this article to learn info on evaluation of hotel interior performance. Check additional information about hotel interior performance.

Different people have different goals when coming to a hotel. Some of them simply want to spend a night somewhere and thus they only need shower, bed and breakfast while others are ready to pay huge money to stay in luxurious hotels where they can do everything: from gambling in casino and playing tennis to holding a business meeting in a conference hall. Interior of a hotel is perhaps the first thing most people pay attention to when opening entrance doors and coming in. By the way, there are hotels with fancy interior designs, for instance rock-n-roll hotels where you can find interior typical of 1950s and photos of rock-n-roll stars on the walls. Some hotels feature antique or baroque designs with massive chandeliers, servants, antique furniture etc. Staying in such a hotel is a fascinating experience, although you have to pay for this pleasure a bit more as compared to traditional hotels.

Everything in a hotel can be evaluated. Yes, just about everything - from kitchen, laundry and housekeeping to interior and security. So far, Balanced Scorecard is perhaps the best tool to evaluate hotel performance in terms of implementation of strategic goals. Sure, there are other performance evaluation tools but none of them help put strategy into action. In this article we will talk about evaluation of hotel interior with Balanced Scorecard.

Traditionally, Balanced Scorecard consists of 4 categories: financial, customer, internal business processes, learning and growth. You may think that it is impossible to apply the above categories for interior evaluation. Well, you are mistaken. BSC is so flexible and universal that it can be used for various evaluation purposes. Let's have a look at these categories and think of KPIs that might be successfully used.

Financial category contains KPIs that are directly or indirectly related to expenses and revenue in connection with interior. Of course, hotel management should spend some money to maintain interior in a perfect condition. At the same time, this is investment that should come back in profits in future. How? Customers will like it in a hotel and come back again just because they liked interior and the way it has been designed. Thus, measurement of such KPI as interior expenses vs. total spending budget can help evaluate how much has been spent to renovate interior.

As to customer perspective, everything is quite simple here. Everything done in a hotel is done for the sake of customers. Thus, customer satisfaction with interior design is extremely important. If hotel visitors do not like interior they will probably choose another hotel next time. Thus, investments in renovation may fail. It is not very reasonable to waste money. Thus, we would recommend asking hotel guests if they like interior design.

Internal business processes category covers KPIs that demonstrate efficiency of hotel management in organizing work related to interior design and renovation. They answer the question "How can we make the best interior." The last category concerns KPIs related to education and development of personnel skills and knowledge.

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