The 5 Big Advantages of Outsourcing your Hotel Housekeeping in New Zealand

Camilla Yang • July 1, 2024

In today's fiercely competitive hotel industry, minimising operational costs while ensuring a clean and welcoming environment is essential to securing a steady flow of returning guests.


For hotels in New Zealand, collaborating with a professional outsourced housekeeping service offers numerous financial and operational benefits, along with significant peace of mind. Here, we delve into the five major advantages of outsourcing your hotel housekeeping.


1. Flexibility and Scalability To Suit Demand

One of the significant advantages of partnering with an outsourced housekeeping company like ahs hospitality is the flexibility of our service offering to compliment the demand of your hotel in real time. For example, during peak seasons or special events your hotel is hosting, you can hire additional housekeeping staff on demand through our labour hire solution. On the other hand, during the quieter periods, we can support with adjusting the number of housekeeping staff you need on shift, optimising operational efficiency.


2. Fantastic Cost Savings

Outsourcing housekeeping services can be more cost-effective than your hotel trying to maintain an in-house team yourself. This also means that you can focus on your core business operations. With ahs hospitality offices in both Auckland and Christchurch, we will happily take care of recruitment, training, insurance, salaries, and housekeeping equipment and most importantly, productivity and quality outcomes for hotel guests. We also have our own dedicated Human Resources, Marketing, Legal, Safety and Performance teams ready to provide comprehensive support.


3. Consistency and Reliability

As an outsourced housekeeping company that has been operating in New Zealand for over 10 years, we are committed to providing a consistent and reliable professional cleaning service to all our hotel partners. With established protocols, quality control measures and cleanliness standards that our housekeepers adhere to, it is this reliability that you can trust that ensures your guests will have a consistently pleasant experience during their stay.


4. Access to Specialised Expertise

At ahs hospitality, our New Zealand team have the specialised knowledge, experience and expertise in how to run a housekeeping department effectively and efficiently for large hotel chains. We train our housekeepers in the best cleaning techniques and processes, provide them with safe and eco-friendly products, and most importantly ensure compliance with New Zealand Health and Safety at Work regulations.


5. Enhanced Guest Experience and Satisfaction

We all know that a clean, inviting and well-maintained hotel room directly impacts guest satisfaction. At ahs hospitality we take pride in bringing our cleaning expertise and meticulous attention to detail to our hotel clients, ensuring that every room and public area we clean is looking its very best. This high standard of cleanliness can significantly increase the guest experience, leading to positive reviews, higher ratings, and increased bookings across hotel booking sites.


In conclusion, partnering with New Zealand’s top outsourced housekeeping company ahs hospitality, your hotel can gain from numerous financial and operational benefits that outsourced housekeeping offers. If you are interested in exploring how we can best support your hotel in achieving its housekeeping goals, get in touch today!

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