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Hotel Front Office Management
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hospitality
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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
Application Service Providers (ASPs)
Automated Inventory Tracking System
Selling Against Room Block
Hotelligence Report
2. Software companies that offer a suite of software applications via Internet-based access.
Convention and Vistor Bureaus (CVBs)
Corporate Guests
Components of the Simple Room Count
Application Service Providers (ASPs)
3. Establishes and monitors rate structure - Continually monitors reservations activity and sets inventory controls as needed - Aids rate negotiations with bulk buyers -Monitors and restricts the number of reservations that can be taken for any particul
Attrition/Pick-Up Rate
Four primary functions of ASPs
Role of Yield Management Systems
Hotelligence Report
4. Rooms available -Occupied last night -Expected check-outs -Stayovers -Today's Reservations -Rooms committed today -Rooms available for sale -Occupancy percentage
Travel Information Management Services (TIMS)
Optional Reservation Data
Understay
Components of the Simple Room Count
5. Encourage booking by enhancing quality of website - offering lowest price guarantee - letting users research for multiple brands at multiple price points with one click.
Categories of Group Business
House Count
Chain Sites
Artificial Intelligence/ Expert Systems
6. Logical rules that give options based on sensitivity
Adjusted Room Count
Travel Information Management Services (TIMS)
Pegasus Solutions
Fenced Rates
7. The lodging industry's oldest and most popular provider of ASP Central Reservations software.
Pegasus Solutions
Overbooking percentage
Corporate Guests
Group Guests
8. Status of rooms sold and available
Artificial Intelligence/ Expert Systems
Role of Yield Management Systems
Spread Rate
Room Count
9. Is able to determine the number of rooms available for sale for a given date. Offers various status reports under the reservations module.
Out of Inventory Rooms (OOI)
Group Guests
Fenced Rates
Automated Inventory Tracking System
10. CRS for hire - used by smaller chains - independent hotels.
Travel Information Management Services (TIMS)
Internet and Web-Based Reservations
Unidentified Delegates
Independent Reservation Services
11. In 2001 - Galileo was purchased by Cendant Corporation for $2.9 billion.
Internet and Web-Based Reservations
What are these global distribution system providers worth?
Leisure Guests
Travel Information Management Services (TIMS)
12. Guest with confirmed/guaranteed booking who does not arrive - but has not cancelled
Where did we steal Yield Management from?
Role of the Housing Bureau
Seamless Connectivity
No Show
13. Guest without reservations needing rooms
What are these global distribution system providers worth?
Seamless Connectivity
Walk-ins
Global Distribution System (GDS)
14. A negotiated discount below the rack rate. Members pick the rate they want to pay
Spread Rate
Leisure Guests
Corporate Guests
Group Guests
15. Place and date more important than rate.
PHASER complete Access Reports
Committed Rooms
Group Guests
Four Global Distribution System Providers
16. Convention guest who try to get a better rate by using other deals
Leisure Guests
Nests and Hurdles
Unidentified Delegates
Independent Reservation Services
17. Guest who stay longer than booked
How many minutes should it take to process a reservation?
Overstay
Expected Departures
Application Service Providers (ASPs)
18. Some get suites - some get singles - all pay same rate
Flat Rate/Run of the House
Overstay
Meta-Search Technology
Group Business
19. 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.
Fenced Rates
Search Engine Optimization
House Count
IT packages
20. Guest who leave earlier than expected
Artificial Intelligence/ Expert Systems
Central Reservation System (CRS)
Understay
Group Guests
21. Based entirely on historical date. Does not share specific performance date for each competing property.
22. Estimated over $80 billion. Group delegates spend more dollars.
Adjusting the Room Block
Overbooking percentage
Walk-ins
Group Business
23. A CRS -GDS connectivity -Connections to 'alternate' distribution systems -Internet Reservations
Overstay
Optional Reservation Data
Four primary functions of ASPs
Role of the Housing Bureau
24. Estimated time of arrival -Special Requests -Smoking preferences -Discounts or Affiliations -Address
Pegasus Solutions
Overstay
Leisure Guests
Optional Reservation Data
25. Publicly funded - quasi-govermetnal organizations to represent city's hospitality industry. Represent bid for large and small conferences
Understay
Convention and Vistor Bureaus (CVBs)
Expected Departures
Chain Sites
26. The Airlines
Where did we steal Yield Management from?
Electronic Switch Technology
Nests and Hurdles
Travel Information Management Services (TIMS)
27. Rates are gathered through the CRS' seamless connection. Displays discounts and lowest available rates for all hotels in the competitive market set
Application Service Providers (ASPs)
Travel Information Management Services (TIMS)
Nests and Hurdles
Early Arrivals
28. 100 booked - 40 used means 60% attrition - 40% pick-up
House Count
Expedia Competitive Price Grid Report
Attrition/Pick-Up Rate
Overbooking
29. More rooms sold than available - done deliberately.
Travel Information Management Services (TIMS)
Overbooking
Independent Reservation Services
Pegasus Solutions
30. 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
Out of Order Rooms (OOO)
Selling Against Room Block
Expected Arrivals
No Show
31. Continuing guest - as per booking
Stayover
Artificial Intelligence/ Expert Systems
Convention and Vistor Bureaus (CVBs)
Amendments/alterations to the reservation
32. Advanced reservations (the best) -Guaranteed Reservation -Confirmed Reservation
Attrition/Pick-Up Rate
Reservations to take
Smith Travel Research's STAR Reports
House Count
33. Faster - more accurate - sells more rooms at higher rates
Convention and Vistor Bureaus (CVBs)
Role of the Housing Bureau
Seamless Connectivity
Flat Rate/Run of the House
34. More sophisticated - accounting for many issues
Yield Management Revolution
Four primary functions of ASPs
Adjusted Room Count
Overbooking percentage
35. The American Society of Association Executives
ASAE
Electronic Switch Technology
Convention and Vistor Bureaus (CVBs)
Stayover
36. The electronic system - including the last-room availability interface with individual chain properties. Linked airlines with travel agents.
Central Reservation System (CRS)
Corporate Guests
Search Engine Optimization
Expedia Competitive Price Grid Report
37. 1)Tour Groups 2)Convention Groups 3)Exposition and Trade Shows
Independent Reservation Services
Categories of Group Business
Smith Travel Research's STAR Reports
Reservations to take
38. Travel related bookings are the largest category of Internet transactions. Each year - the Internet attracts a larger share of reservations away from more traditional sources - growing at a rate four times faster than the rest of the industry.
Where did we steal Yield Management from?
Selling Against Room Block
Stayover
Internet and Web-Based Reservations
39. Sending a guest with confirmed or guaranteed booking to another hotel as we are full
Adjusted Room Count
Walking the Guest
Chain Sites
Hotelligence Report
40. Sites that search all available websites to present side-by-side comparisons and booking options (kayak - sidestep or travelzoo)
Meta-Search Technology
Four Global Distribution System Providers
Fenced Rates
Selling Against Room Block
41. 2-3 minutes
Global Distribution System (GDS)
Meta-Search Technology
Walking the Guest
How many minutes should it take to process a reservation?
42. Needed for large conventions where delegates may stay in many hotels
No Show
Where did we steal Yield Management from?
Role of the Housing Bureau
Internet and Web-Based Reservations
43. Hurdle point is set - lower rates rejected
Chain Sites
Nests and Hurdles
Global Distribution System (GDS)
Categories of Group Business
44. Speaking the same language within incompatible systems
Room Count
Expedia Competitive Price Grid Report
Electronic Switch Technology
Out of Order Rooms (OOO)
45. 1)Amadeus 2)Galileo 3)Sabre 4)Worldspan
Four Global Distribution System Providers
Guest History Database
Stayover
How many minutes should it take to process a reservation?
46. Changes in dates - names - numbers - room types etc.
Amendments/alterations to the reservation
Independent Reservation Services
Optional Reservation Data
Early Arrivals
47. Use stored data to form rules that govern decisions. Allows for instantaneous response to changing conditions
Flat Rate/Run of the House
Stayover
Artificial Intelligence/ Expert Systems
Categories of Group Business
48. Very price sensitive - weekend travel - will trade price for restrictions - are motivated by deals
IT packages
Leisure Guests
Artificial Intelligence/ Expert Systems
Application Service Providers (ASPs)
49. 5-7%
Role of Yield Management Systems
Group Business
Four Global Distribution System Providers
Overbooking percentage
50. Unavailable long-term due to non-fixable problems. Cannot be sold due to unacceptable condition.
Walk-ins
Corporate Guests
Global Distribution System (GDS)
Out of Inventory Rooms (OOI)