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Hotel Front Office Management
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1. Is able to determine the number of rooms available for sale for a given date. Offers various status reports under the reservations module.
Selling Against Room Block
Expected Arrivals
Committed Rooms
Automated Inventory Tracking System
2. 80% of web visits start in a search engine. Need to be in the top .0005% of the search to be listed in the top few.
Walking the Guest
Internet and Web-Based Reservations
Search Engine Optimization
Out of Inventory Rooms (OOI)
3. Convention guest who try to get a better rate by using other deals
Adjusting the Room Block
Expedia Competitive Price Grid Report
Unidentified Delegates
Amendments/alterations to the reservation
4. As individual room requests arrive at the hotel - they are booked against the group room block. Reservation received after the closeout date - 20 to 30 days before the convention starts - are accepted on an availability basis only
Chain Sites
Four primary functions of ASPs
Selling Against Room Block
Pegasus Solutions
5. 100 booked - 40 used means 60% attrition - 40% pick-up
Reservations to take
Attrition/Pick-Up Rate
Central Reservation System (CRS)
Global Distribution System (GDS)
6. Continuing guest - as per booking
Understay
Stayover
Out of Inventory Rooms (OOI)
Travel Information Management Services (TIMS)
7. Some get suites - some get singles - all pay same rate
PHASER complete Access Reports
Expedia Competitive Price Grid Report
Flat Rate/Run of the House
Artificial Intelligence/ Expert Systems
8. Use stored data to form rules that govern decisions. Allows for instantaneous response to changing conditions
Artificial Intelligence/ Expert Systems
Chain Sites
Overbooking
Spread Rate
9. Hurdle point is set - lower rates rejected
Nests and Hurdles
Adjusted Room Count
Electronic Switch Technology
Components of the Simple Room Count
10. Compares a manager's room available with those available in the competitive market set and room -nights sold for the manager's hotel against room-night sold across the competitive set
Search Engine Optimization
Hotelligence Report
Automated Inventory Tracking System
Adjusting the Room Block
11. Guest booked to depart today
Expected Departures
Hotelligence Report
Out of Inventory Rooms (OOI)
Overbooking
12. History and preferences of that particular guest. Being used more often today
Seamless Connectivity
Guest History Database
Pegasus Solutions
Role of the Housing Bureau
13. The role that airline reservation systems played
Global Distribution System (GDS)
Chain Sites
In-House Reservation Center
Corporate Guests
14. A negotiated discount below the rack rate. Members pick the rate they want to pay
Hotel Web Sites
Amendments/alterations to the reservation
Nests and Hurdles
Spread Rate
15. Very price sensitive - weekend travel - will trade price for restrictions - are motivated by deals
Out of Inventory Rooms (OOI)
How many minutes should it take to process a reservation?
Leisure Guests
Four primary functions of ASPs
16. Logical rules that give options based on sensitivity
Fenced Rates
Walking the Guest
Expected Departures
Guest History Database
17. Sites that search all available websites to present side-by-side comparisons and booking options (kayak - sidestep or travelzoo)
Chain Sites
Committed Rooms
Out of Inventory Rooms (OOI)
Meta-Search Technology
18. Place and date more important than rate.
Group Guests
IT packages
Fenced Rates
Yield Management Revolution
19. Yesterdays stay-overs + today's reserved arrivals
Attrition/Pick-Up Rate
Expected Departures
Committed Rooms
Nests and Hurdles
20. Temporarily unavailable due to fixable problems. Can be fixed quickly if absolutely essential. Can be sol at a discount if un-fixed - with disclosure.
Out of Order Rooms (OOO)
Adjusting the Room Block
Early Arrivals
Hotelligence Report
21. Advanced reservations (the best) -Guaranteed Reservation -Confirmed Reservation
Group Guests
Application Service Providers (ASPs)
Yield Management Revolution
Reservations to take
22. Number of guests in hotel
House Count
Electronic Switch Technology
Room Count
In-House Reservation Center
23. Guest who stay longer than booked
Seamless Connectivity
Group Guests
Overstay
Convention and Vistor Bureaus (CVBs)
24. Software companies that offer a suite of software applications via Internet-based access.
Where did we steal Yield Management from?
Application Service Providers (ASPs)
Optional Reservation Data
How many minutes should it take to process a reservation?
25. A CRS -GDS connectivity -Connections to 'alternate' distribution systems -Internet Reservations
Yield Management Revolution
Four primary functions of ASPs
Components of the Simple Room Count
Pegasus Solutions
26. Guests booked to arrive today
ASAE
Walk-ins
Overstay
Expected Arrivals
27. 40% of annual marketing budget may be spent on online products. Booking through own website nets more revenue than booking through 3rd party websites.
Adjusted Room Count
What are these global distribution system providers worth?
Hotel Web Sites
Room Count
28. 1)Tour Groups 2)Convention Groups 3)Exposition and Trade Shows
Understay
Categories of Group Business
How many minutes should it take to process a reservation?
Meta-Search Technology
29. Changes in dates - names - numbers - room types etc.
Amendments/alterations to the reservation
Corporate Guests
Components of the Simple Room Count
Unidentified Delegates
30. CRS for hire - used by smaller chains - independent hotels.
Global Distribution System (GDS)
Meta-Search Technology
Application Service Providers (ASPs)
Independent Reservation Services
31. The act of controlling rates and restricting occupancy to maximize gross room revenues
Role of the Housing Bureau
Where did we steal Yield Management from?
Yield Management Revolution
How many minutes should it take to process a reservation?
32. Sending a guest with confirmed or guaranteed booking to another hotel as we are full
Group Guests
Four Global Distribution System Providers
Walking the Guest
Corporate Guests
33. Rooms available -Occupied last night -Expected check-outs -Stayovers -Today's Reservations -Rooms committed today -Rooms available for sale -Occupancy percentage
Four primary functions of ASPs
Components of the Simple Room Count
Search Engine Optimization
Electronic Switch Technology
34. In 2001 - Galileo was purchased by Cendant Corporation for $2.9 billion.
Application Service Providers (ASPs)
What are these global distribution system providers worth?
Chain Sites
Nests and Hurdles
35. 5-7%
Overbooking percentage
Hotelligence Report
Room Count
Expected Arrivals
36. When a person calls directly to the hotel to book their reservations.
Where did we steal Yield Management from?
Four primary functions of ASPs
Attrition/Pick-Up Rate
In-House Reservation Center
37. More rooms sold than available - done deliberately.
Group Business
Out of Inventory Rooms (OOI)
Overstay
Overbooking
38. Unavailable long-term due to non-fixable problems. Cannot be sold due to unacceptable condition.
Group Guests
Out of Inventory Rooms (OOI)
Artificial Intelligence/ Expert Systems
Spread Rate
39. 1)Amadeus 2)Galileo 3)Sabre 4)Worldspan
Walk-ins
Chain Sites
Stayover
Four Global Distribution System Providers
40. Based entirely on historical date. Does not share specific performance date for each competing property.
41. Guest with confirmed/guaranteed booking who does not arrive - but has not cancelled
Components of the Simple Room Count
Pegasus Solutions
Adjusted Room Count
No Show
42. The hotel wants to see the rates it is listing in Expedia as well as the rates listed by competitors in order to manage its own hotel-direct Web site
Expedia Competitive Price Grid Report
PHASER complete Access Reports
ASAE
Hotel Web Sites
43. Breaks the hotel rates into two categories - GDS and CRAS and looks for the lowest available rate in each of these areas
How many minutes should it take to process a reservation?
Corporate Guests
PHASER complete Access Reports
Application Service Providers (ASPs)
44. The electronic system - including the last-room availability interface with individual chain properties. Linked airlines with travel agents.
Central Reservation System (CRS)
Unidentified Delegates
Leisure Guests
Artificial Intelligence/ Expert Systems
45. Hotel sets up and sells own package to individuals. May be better than the group rate.
House Count
Leisure Guests
Electronic Switch Technology
IT packages
46. Needed for large conventions where delegates may stay in many hotels
Leisure Guests
Role of the Housing Bureau
Walk-ins
Expedia Competitive Price Grid Report
47. The Airlines
Where did we steal Yield Management from?
Overbooking percentage
Electronic Switch Technology
Role of the Housing Bureau
48. Guest who arrive days before booking
Independent Reservation Services
Optional Reservation Data
Early Arrivals
Meta-Search Technology
49. Estimated over $80 billion. Group delegates spend more dollars.
IT packages
Walk-ins
Group Business
Role of the Housing Bureau
50. Guest who leave earlier than expected
Understay
Fenced Rates
Smith Travel Research's STAR Reports
Central Reservation System (CRS)