Free hotel staff training

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19 free lessons, about 4.1 hours of training in total. New to hotel work? Get familiar with the language and the everyday essentials. Explore new hire foundations

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Guest experience

ADA & Service Animals (12 min): The only two questions you may legally ask, what you must never ask, and how to handle service animal situations without creating liability or a viral clip.
Guest Complaint Resolution (12 min): The LEARN framework for complaints: listen, empathize, apologize, resolve, notify. See one complaint handled two ways, with two very different outcomes.
Guest De-escalation (12 min): The LEAD framework for angry guests: listen, empathize, adjust, deliver. Plus the words that help, the words that hurt, and when to stop and get help.
Guest Service Standards (10 min): The four ingredients of an elevated guest experience, how to anticipate what a guest needs, and how to catch a service slip before it becomes a complaint.

Safety & security

Bed Bugs in Hotels: Staff Detection & Response Procedures (12 min): What bed bugs look like, where they hide, how they arrive, and the exact steps to take when staff find them or a guest reports them at the front desk.
Bloodborne Pathogens (12 min, certificate available): Treat everything as infectious: gloves, handling soiled linens and body fluids, your free Hepatitis B vaccine, and what to do if you are ever exposed.
Drugs and Firearms: Safety and Liability (12 min): Why the first rule is never to touch, and the exact steps to take when staff find drugs, paraphernalia, or a firearm while servicing a guest room.
Eye Wash Stations (8 min): Which station your property needs, where to find it, and how to use plumbed, gravity-fed, or bottle units correctly in the first seconds of an exposure.
Fire Extinguisher (10 min): When to fight a fire and when to walk away, the P.A.S.S. method, what each extinguisher type is rated for, and how your building's fire alarm works.
Fire Sprinklers (10 min): How sprinkler heads work, what sets them off by accident, the difference between wet and dry systems, and what to do in the first minutes of a discharge.
Guest Room Access (10 min): Who may grant access to a room, the two checks every front desk agent owes a guest, and the tactics people use to talk their way past both of them.
Handling a Guest Death: What Every Hotel Should Know (18 min): Rare, but it happens. Learn the right first response when a guest dies on property, and how to handle the scene, the family, and your own team with care.
Human Trafficking Awareness: Recognition & Reporting (25 min, certificate available): Hotel staff are the front line against trafficking. Warning signs by department, the safe way to report, and the mistakes that put victims in more danger.
Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS/SDS) (10 min): Your right to know what you work with: reading the 16 sections of a safety data sheet, labeling every container, and finding yours before an emergency.

Hotel basics

Hotel Terms & Acronyms (12 min): Every hotel term and acronym a new hire runs into, in one plain-English A-to-Z list. Must-know terms are starred, with worked examples for ADR, occupancy, and RevPAR.

Sales & revenue

Front Desk Sales Training (12 min): Revenue is a team effort. How the front desk, housekeeping, and every other department spot opportunities and turn one-time guests into repeat business.
Sales Training (15 min): Sales in hospitality is relationship building, not pressure. Practical guidance on prospecting, writing sales emails, and making cold calls that connect.

Leadership

Hotel Leadership: Setting the Tone for Your Team (15 min): Leadership is not the same as being in charge. Learn to build a team that trusts you, and the six things effective hotel leaders actually do every day.
Hotel Manager Training: Leadership & Ownership Mindset (18 min): Own the results: know your numbers, protect your cash, plan ahead, and put your people first so the hotel stays Protected, Profitable, and Performing.

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Suggested sequences bring existing trainings together around a practical goal.

New hire foundations

Start with the language, service habits, and awareness that help a new teammate find their feet.

Guest experience essentials

Build confidence in welcoming guests, handling concerns, and keeping difficult conversations constructive.

Growing into management

Connect your leadership habits with the people, planning, and numbers behind a hotel.

Training a team? See how HOPE connects training, shift handoffs, and daily follow-through in one place. Explore HOPE

For hotel managers

Help the learning carry into the work.

Pair a lesson with a team conversation, a clearer shift handoff, and one shared place for the follow-through. That is what HOPE is for. See how HOPE connects the hotel