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Hotel, Motel, and Resort Desk Clerks
Accommodate hotel, motel, and resort patrons by registering and assigning rooms to guests, issuing room keys or cards, transmitting and receiving messages, keeping records of occupied rooms and guests' accounts, making and confirming reservations, and presenting statements to and collecting payments from departing guests.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Make and confirm reservations.People already use AI for this at work
- 02Greet, register, and assign rooms to guests of hotels or motels.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 03Verify customers' credit, and establish how the customer will pay for the accommodation.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 04Post charges, such as those for rooms, food, liquor, or telephone calls, to ledgers, manually or by using computers.AI could speed this up a lot
- 05Issue room keys and escort instructions to bellhops.Mostly human for now
- 06Advise housekeeping staff when rooms have been vacated and are ready for cleaning.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 07Transmit and receive messages, using telephones or telephone switchboards.AI could speed this up a lot
- 08Record guest comments or complaints, referring customers to managers as necessary.AI could speed this up a lot
- 09Keep records of room availability and guests' accounts, manually or using computers.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 10Perform bookkeeping activities, such as balancing accounts and conducting nightly audits.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
Tasks from O*NET® 31.0 (US Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0, changed by us), most important first. “Already use” comes from Anthropic’s data on real work chats with Claude; “could speed up” from task ratings made with GPT-4 in 2023.
Four studies, side by side
None is a forecast of job loss17%of this job’s work time goes to tasks that people already do with Claude at work, counting tasks where AI only helps as half (2026).Anthropic, 2026
50%of this job’s tasks an AI model could do in half the time, counting tasks that need extra tools as half (rated in 2023).Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock, 2023
Above 76% of jobsin how often and how well AI helped with this job’s work in Microsoft Copilot chats (2024 data).Microsoft Research (Tomlinson et al.), 2025
Above 41% of jobsin how much of this job’s physical work robots have been shown to do, from factories to homes (2026).Anthropic, 2026
Your human edge
The main tasks with no real AI use seen and no big speed-up expected. This is where your skill counts most today.
- Issue room keys and escort instructions to bellhops.