Centro Capital Centre by Rotana, a leading lifestyle business hotel in Abu Dhabi, UAE, recently held its first Housekeeping Olympics; a unique competition which covers various disciplines related to the art of hospitality.

Through the competition, the hotel aimed to enhance the colleagues’ skills and competencies, to encourage talented colleagues to progress into senior management roles, to spread on-going motivation, resilience and positive energy which will lead to provide high quality service and exceed guests’ satisfaction.

The participants competed in several disciplines including bed making, mop race, vacuum race and buffer pad toss race and they are judged against their skills, accuracy and speed. Special scoring sheets had been developed in accordance with the hotel’s guidelines to demonstrate fairness and integrity along with the presence of judges and experts in the field.

After the first stage, 10 top-performing contestants at each discipline had qualified for the finals and the winners were allocated first, second and third places following Olympic games model.

“In Centro Capital Centre, we pay much attention to our colleagues’ development, because we believe, that people make the company’, said Ayman Ashor, Centro Capital Centre general manager. “It’s especially important in our industry, where colleagues communicate to our guests directly and the image of the hotel depends not only on how trained our colleagues are, but also on how happy they are at the workplace. With Housekeeping Olympics, we would like to bring more value to their job and ensure high standards of guest service.” – TradeArabia News Service