Identifying and determining the key processes for quality management systems in the hotel sector

In response to the need to identify and establish the strategic value of the processes covered by the Quality Standards (ISO 9001, EFQM) this work proposes a methodology that combines the Resource-Based View (RBV) with the 'process-based approach' that enables the key processes and their importance to quality system management to be identified. This methodology is applied to the hotel sector, which allows a comparison to be made with the criteria of the Q Standard of Spanish Tourism Quality and the proposal to be validated. In this respect; three types of processes have been identified: principal, complementary and support processes.