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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. Publicly funded - quasi-govermetnal organizations to represent city's hospitality industry. Represent bid for large and small conferences
Search Engine Optimization
Automated Inventory Tracking System
Adjusted Room Count
Convention and Vistor Bureaus (CVBs)
2. The role that airline reservation systems played
Global Distribution System (GDS)
Automated Inventory Tracking System
Four primary functions of ASPs
Flat Rate/Run of the House
3. Blanket reservation is made initially. Is adjusted as dates come closer. Convention hotels cooperate to determine 'show rate' of a particular group from past records.
Seamless Connectivity
Reservations to take
ASAE
Adjusting the Room Block
4. Is able to determine the number of rooms available for sale for a given date. Offers various status reports under the reservations module.
Automated Inventory Tracking System
Central Reservation Office (CRO)
Unidentified Delegates
Categories of Group Business
5. CRS for hire - used by smaller chains - independent hotels.
Walk-ins
Artificial Intelligence/ Expert Systems
How many minutes should it take to process a reservation?
Independent Reservation Services
6. Some get suites - some get singles - all pay same rate
Flat Rate/Run of the House
Third Party Travel Sites
Expedia Competitive Price Grid Report
Optional Reservation Data
7. Guest with confirmed/guaranteed booking who does not arrive - but has not cancelled
Guest History Database
Categories of Group Business
Spread Rate
No Show
8. Logical rules that give options based on sensitivity
Fenced Rates
How many minutes should it take to process a reservation?
Role of the Housing Bureau
Hotel Web Sites
9. Estimated time of arrival -Special Requests -Smoking preferences -Discounts or Affiliations -Address
No Show
Adjusted Room Count
Expected Arrivals
Optional Reservation Data
10. 5-7%
Overbooking percentage
Seamless Connectivity
Pegasus Solutions
ASAE
11. A negotiated discount below the rack rate. Members pick the rate they want to pay
Attrition/Pick-Up Rate
What are these global distribution system providers worth?
Adjusting the Room Block
Spread Rate
12. Number of guests in hotel
Meta-Search Technology
House Count
Out of Inventory Rooms (OOI)
IT packages
13. Guests booked to arrive today
Expected Arrivals
Global Distribution System (GDS)
Yield Management Revolution
Smith Travel Research's STAR Reports
14. Guest who stay longer than booked
Automated Inventory Tracking System
Out of Inventory Rooms (OOI)
Hotel Web Sites
Overstay
15. The lodging industry's oldest and most popular provider of ASP Central Reservations software.
Components of the Simple Room Count
Pegasus Solutions
Selling Against Room Block
Corporate Guests
16. Guest who leave earlier than expected
Understay
Categories of Group Business
Attrition/Pick-Up Rate
Travel Information Management Services (TIMS)
17. More rooms sold than available - done deliberately.
Overbooking
Adjusting the Room Block
What are these global distribution system providers worth?
Search Engine Optimization
18. Based entirely on historical date. Does not share specific performance date for each competing property.
19. Software companies that offer a suite of software applications via Internet-based access.
Application Service Providers (ASPs)
Search Engine Optimization
Room Count
What are these global distribution system providers worth?
20. Sites that search all available websites to present side-by-side comparisons and booking options (kayak - sidestep or travelzoo)
Meta-Search Technology
Adjusting the Room Block
Unidentified Delegates
Reservations to take
21. Use stored data to form rules that govern decisions. Allows for instantaneous response to changing conditions
Automated Inventory Tracking System
Artificial Intelligence/ Expert Systems
Chain Sites
Early Arrivals
22. 1)Tour Groups 2)Convention Groups 3)Exposition and Trade Shows
Unidentified Delegates
ASAE
What are these global distribution system providers worth?
Categories of Group Business
23. Guest booked to depart today
Application Service Providers (ASPs)
Group Business
Expected Departures
In-House Reservation Center
24. Advanced reservations (the best) -Guaranteed Reservation -Confirmed Reservation
No Show
Group Business
Reservations to take
Artificial Intelligence/ Expert Systems
25. 100 booked - 40 used means 60% attrition - 40% pick-up
Global Distribution System (GDS)
Stayover
Attrition/Pick-Up Rate
In-House Reservation Center
26. The act of controlling rates and restricting occupancy to maximize gross room revenues
Smith Travel Research's STAR Reports
Automated Inventory Tracking System
IT packages
Yield Management Revolution
27. History and preferences of that particular guest. Being used more often today
Fenced Rates
Guest History Database
Automated Inventory Tracking System
Four Global Distribution System Providers
28. Continuing guest - as per booking
Stayover
Search Engine Optimization
Hotelligence Report
Nests and Hurdles
29. 40% of annual marketing budget may be spent on online products. Booking through own website nets more revenue than booking through 3rd party websites.
Early Arrivals
Stayover
Hotel Web Sites
Search Engine Optimization
30. Status of rooms sold and available
PHASER complete Access Reports
Electronic Switch Technology
Room Count
Corporate Guests
31. Place and date more important than rate.
Group Guests
Amendments/alterations to the reservation
Understay
How many minutes should it take to process a reservation?
32. 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
Out of Inventory Rooms (OOI)
33. Guest who arrive days before booking
Overbooking
Nests and Hurdles
Categories of Group Business
Early Arrivals
34. Temporarily unavailable due to fixable problems. Can be fixed quickly if absolutely essential. Can be sol at a discount if un-fixed - with disclosure.
Yield Management Revolution
Application Service Providers (ASPs)
Stayover
Out of Order Rooms (OOO)
35. A CRS -GDS connectivity -Connections to 'alternate' distribution systems -Internet Reservations
Four primary functions of ASPs
Role of the Housing Bureau
Nests and Hurdles
No Show
36. Faster - more accurate - sells more rooms at higher rates
Components of the Simple Room Count
Flat Rate/Run of the House
Artificial Intelligence/ Expert Systems
Seamless Connectivity
37. Yesterdays stay-overs + today's reserved arrivals
Stayover
Room Count
Committed Rooms
Out of Inventory Rooms (OOI)
38. The actual office site at which chain reservationists reside.
Reservations to take
Central Reservation Office (CRO)
Components of the Simple Room Count
In-House Reservation Center
39. The electronic system - including the last-room availability interface with individual chain properties. Linked airlines with travel agents.
Room Count
Smith Travel Research's STAR Reports
Stayover
Central Reservation System (CRS)
40. Changes in dates - names - numbers - room types etc.
Artificial Intelligence/ Expert Systems
Components of the Simple Room Count
Yield Management Revolution
Amendments/alterations to the reservation
41. 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
Room Count
Amendments/alterations to the reservation
Flat Rate/Run of the House
42. More sophisticated - accounting for many issues
Adjusted Room Count
Internet and Web-Based Reservations
Amendments/alterations to the reservation
Out of Order Rooms (OOO)
43. 2-3 minutes
How many minutes should it take to process a reservation?
Smith Travel Research's STAR Reports
Overbooking percentage
Global Distribution System (GDS)
44. 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
Role of Yield Management Systems
Overstay
Global Distribution System (GDS)
Walking the Guest
45. Estimated over $80 billion. Group delegates spend more dollars.
Group Business
Yield Management Revolution
Where did we steal Yield Management from?
What are these global distribution system providers worth?
46. Encourage booking by enhancing quality of website - offering lowest price guarantee - letting users research for multiple brands at multiple price points with one click.
Chain Sites
Seamless Connectivity
Leisure Guests
Role of Yield Management Systems
47. Needed for large conventions where delegates may stay in many hotels
Out of Inventory Rooms (OOI)
Nests and Hurdles
Role of the Housing Bureau
House Count
48. 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
Selling Against Room Block
Third Party Travel Sites
Role of Yield Management Systems
Walking the Guest
49. The Airlines
Where did we steal Yield Management from?
Expected Departures
Central Reservation Office (CRO)
Artificial Intelligence/ Expert Systems
50. Rates are gathered through the CRS' seamless connection. Displays discounts and lowest available rates for all hotels in the competitive market set
Expedia Competitive Price Grid Report
Travel Information Management Services (TIMS)
Where did we steal Yield Management from?
Hotelligence Report