The motive drives people, and in business, it affects people's work and business success. That's why employee motivation is one of the techniques in human resource management. In the hotel industry, human work is of utmost importance. The satisfaction of the guest, which influences the success of the hotel business, depends on the service provided by hotel employees. Only a satisfied and motivated employee can be a successful employee who contributes to the fulfillment of company goals. Therefore, motivation is a prerequisite for the success of a hotel company, and it will be explored in this paper on the example of the Adriatic Luxury Hotels. Thank to many management theorists, whos research focuses on motivation methods and its forms, and their summarized list of papers and studies, we were able to make a link between the forms of motivation, ie. the necessary motivation witch encourages excellence in business, and efficiency of work. The emphasis in the first part of the paper is on the theoretical approach to motivation methods, and the second part deals with research results regarding the efficiency of application of different forms of motivation and different stimulating factors in the internal environment oh hotel businesses, for which purposes the primary research was conducted.