Guest Service Agent

Hilton New Orleans Airport; Kenner (LA); On-site; USD 32,000 - 46,000; Full time

Job summary

Hilton New Orleans Airport welcomes guests with a warm, efficient check-in experience at the front desk in Kenner, LA. You will register guests, assign rooms, and provide essential information about hotel services and local amenities.

The role includes upselling available upgrades and Hilton Honors participation, while ensuring all transactions are accurate and guests are satisfied. Beyond check-in/check-out, you will respond to guest inquiries, coordinate with bell staff, and resolve issues

Responsibilities

• Greet and register guests with prompt, courteous service.
• Assist guests with checkout, handle payments and currency exchanges.
• Upgrade guests and upsell Hilton services and amenities.
• Promote hotel services and locations, provide information and directions.
• Handle guest inquiries via phone and email and relay to team members.
• Resolve guest challenges with calm, professional problem solving.

Job description

Principle Responsibilities/Position Purpose:

Greets and registers guests, providing prompt and courteous service. Checks guests out of the hotel. Resolves guest challenges throughout their stay in our hotel. Upgrades guests, as required. Promotes hotel services, amenities and upsells products to the guests.

• Completes the registration process by inputting and retrieving information from a computer system, confirming pertinent information including number of guests and room rate. Makes appropriate selection of rooms based on guest needs. Codes electronic keys. Non-verbally confirm the room number and rate. Promotes and administers Hilton Marketing Programs such as Hilton Honors, for arriving guests. Ensures guest knows location of room, and arranges for team member to accompany guest to room. Provides welcome packet containing room keys, tokens of our appreciation, gifts, etc. to guest.
• Ensure rooms and services are correctly accounted for within guest statement. Properly accounts for services provided by the hotel. Assists guest with check out payments or charges. Accepts and records vouchers, credit, traveler's checks, and other forms of payment. Converts foreign currency at current posted rates.
• Greets customers immediately with a friendly and sincere welcome. Use a positive and clear speaking voice, listen to understand requests, respond with appropriate action and provide accurate information such on outlet hours, special VIP programs, events, etc.
• Receives special requests from guests, and responds appropriately or forwards requests to appropriate team members for decisions and actions.
• Promptly answers the telephone and email inquiries. Inputs messages into the computer and advises other team members of special guest needs. Retrieves messages and communicates the content to the guest. Retrieves mail, packages and facsimiles or other special items for customers as requested.
• Field guest complaints, conducting through research to develop the most effective solutions and negotiate results. Listen and extend assistance in order to resolve problems such as price conflicts, insufficient heating or air conditioning, etc. Remain calm and alert especially during emergency situations and heavy hotel activity. Plan and implement detailed steps by using experienced judgement and discretion.

SUPPORTIVE FUNCTIONS

In addition to performance of the essential functions, this position may be required to perform a combination of the following supportive functions, with the percentage of time performing each function to be solely determined by the supervisor based upon the particular requirements of the company.

• Attempts to communicate with guest in guest's native language, if applicable.
• Remains calm and alert, especially during emergency and/or heavy hotel activity, and resolve complications.
  such as location changes or credit issues.
• Summons Bell services team members to escort guests to/from their rooms as appropriate.
• Provides safety deposit boxes for guest by escorting them to the vault pulling the box from the vault and carrying it to the guest.
• Operate various office machines.