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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. The lodging industry's oldest and most popular provider of ASP Central Reservations software.
Out of Order Rooms (OOO)
Guest History Database
Application Service Providers (ASPs)
Pegasus Solutions
2. Guest with confirmed/guaranteed booking who does not arrive - but has not cancelled
No Show
House Count
Expected Departures
Pegasus Solutions
3. History and preferences of that particular guest. Being used more often today
ASAE
Hotelligence Report
Independent Reservation Services
Guest History Database
4. Guests booked to arrive today
Adjusted Room Count
Components of the Simple Room Count
Hotel Web Sites
Expected Arrivals
5. Software companies that offer a suite of software applications via Internet-based access.
Room Count
Application Service Providers (ASPs)
Convention and Vistor Bureaus (CVBs)
Guest History Database
6. Advanced reservations (the best) -Guaranteed Reservation -Confirmed Reservation
Application Service Providers (ASPs)
Reservations to take
Third Party Travel Sites
Fenced Rates
7. The Airlines
Overbooking
Artificial Intelligence/ Expert Systems
Yield Management Revolution
Where did we steal Yield Management from?
8. 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
Overbooking
Four primary functions of ASPs
Out of Inventory Rooms (OOI)
Expedia Competitive Price Grid Report
9. 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
Optional Reservation Data
Global Distribution System (GDS)
Electronic Switch Technology
10. Hotel sets up and sells own package to individuals. May be better than the group rate.
Internet and Web-Based Reservations
IT packages
Convention and Vistor Bureaus (CVBs)
Central Reservation Office (CRO)
11. Sites that are not controlled either by the hotel or the chain. (hotwire - expedia - travelocity - orbitz etc..)
Unidentified Delegates
Electronic Switch Technology
Third Party Travel Sites
Where did we steal Yield Management from?
12. 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
Walking the Guest
Selling Against Room Block
Convention and Vistor Bureaus (CVBs)
Role of Yield Management Systems
13. 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
Hotelligence Report
Seamless Connectivity
Where did we steal Yield Management from?
Committed Rooms
14. Is able to determine the number of rooms available for sale for a given date. Offers various status reports under the reservations module.
Four primary functions of ASPs
Out of Order Rooms (OOO)
Automated Inventory Tracking System
Overbooking
15. Continuing guest - as per booking
PHASER complete Access Reports
Committed Rooms
Expedia Competitive Price Grid Report
Stayover
16. 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
Four primary functions of ASPs
Hotel Web Sites
Corporate Guests
17. A negotiated discount below the rack rate. Members pick the rate they want to pay
Expected Departures
Four primary functions of ASPs
In-House Reservation Center
Spread Rate
18. Guest who arrive days before booking
Categories of Group Business
Early Arrivals
Expected Arrivals
Amendments/alterations to the reservation
19. Very price sensitive - weekend travel - will trade price for restrictions - are motivated by deals
Seamless Connectivity
Leisure Guests
Role of Yield Management Systems
Role of the Housing Bureau
20. Yesterdays stay-overs + today's reserved arrivals
Committed Rooms
Flat Rate/Run of the House
Out of Inventory Rooms (OOI)
Convention and Vistor Bureaus (CVBs)
21. Guest without reservations needing rooms
House Count
Yield Management Revolution
Walk-ins
No Show
22. Some get suites - some get singles - all pay same rate
Spread Rate
Early Arrivals
Amendments/alterations to the reservation
Flat Rate/Run of the House
23. The actual office site at which chain reservationists reside.
Leisure Guests
Expedia Competitive Price Grid Report
Overbooking percentage
Central Reservation Office (CRO)
24. Rooms available -Occupied last night -Expected check-outs -Stayovers -Today's Reservations -Rooms committed today -Rooms available for sale -Occupancy percentage
Role of Yield Management Systems
Group Business
Components of the Simple Room Count
Yield Management Revolution
25. Sending a guest with confirmed or guaranteed booking to another hotel as we are full
Expedia Competitive Price Grid Report
Nests and Hurdles
Walking the Guest
Search Engine Optimization
26. Faster - more accurate - sells more rooms at higher rates
No Show
Seamless Connectivity
Committed Rooms
Third Party Travel Sites
27. 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.
Independent Reservation Services
Hotelligence Report
Search Engine Optimization
Leisure Guests
28. Speaking the same language within incompatible systems
Components of the Simple Room Count
Electronic Switch Technology
Committed Rooms
How many minutes should it take to process a reservation?
29. The act of controlling rates and restricting occupancy to maximize gross room revenues
Electronic Switch Technology
Selling Against Room Block
Yield Management Revolution
Expedia Competitive Price Grid Report
30. 100 booked - 40 used means 60% attrition - 40% pick-up
PHASER complete Access Reports
Early Arrivals
Expedia Competitive Price Grid Report
Attrition/Pick-Up Rate
31. Sites that search all available websites to present side-by-side comparisons and booking options (kayak - sidestep or travelzoo)
Early Arrivals
Electronic Switch Technology
Chain Sites
Meta-Search Technology
32. Number of guests in hotel
Expected Arrivals
Hotelligence Report
Seamless Connectivity
House Count
33. Unavailable long-term due to non-fixable problems. Cannot be sold due to unacceptable condition.
Components of the Simple Room Count
Expedia Competitive Price Grid Report
Optional Reservation Data
Out of Inventory Rooms (OOI)
34. Use stored data to form rules that govern decisions. Allows for instantaneous response to changing conditions
No Show
Committed Rooms
Group Business
Artificial Intelligence/ Expert Systems
35. Publicly funded - quasi-govermetnal organizations to represent city's hospitality industry. Represent bid for large and small conferences
Convention and Vistor Bureaus (CVBs)
Stayover
Application Service Providers (ASPs)
Artificial Intelligence/ Expert Systems
36. Estimated time of arrival -Special Requests -Smoking preferences -Discounts or Affiliations -Address
Optional Reservation Data
Expedia Competitive Price Grid Report
Leisure Guests
Automated Inventory Tracking System
37. Guest who stay longer than booked
Overstay
Walk-ins
Nests and Hurdles
Corporate Guests
38. Breaks the hotel rates into two categories - GDS and CRAS and looks for the lowest available rate in each of these areas
Role of the Housing Bureau
Role of Yield Management Systems
PHASER complete Access Reports
Understay
39. More rooms sold than available - done deliberately.
Nests and Hurdles
Role of the Housing Bureau
Overbooking
Flat Rate/Run of the House
40. In 2001 - Galileo was purchased by Cendant Corporation for $2.9 billion.
Components of the Simple Room Count
What are these global distribution system providers worth?
Convention and Vistor Bureaus (CVBs)
ASAE
41. Convention guest who try to get a better rate by using other deals
Categories of Group Business
Overbooking
Flat Rate/Run of the House
Unidentified Delegates
42. Estimated over $80 billion. Group delegates spend more dollars.
Overstay
No Show
Group Business
Fenced Rates
43. The role that airline reservation systems played
Expected Arrivals
Out of Inventory Rooms (OOI)
Central Reservation System (CRS)
Global Distribution System (GDS)
44. More sophisticated - accounting for many issues
Selling Against Room Block
Hotel Web Sites
Adjusting the Room Block
Adjusted Room Count
45. The American Society of Association Executives
Central Reservation System (CRS)
Meta-Search Technology
Categories of Group Business
ASAE
46. Rates are gathered through the CRS' seamless connection. Displays discounts and lowest available rates for all hotels in the competitive market set
Independent Reservation Services
Travel Information Management Services (TIMS)
How many minutes should it take to process a reservation?
Guest History Database
47. 2-3 minutes
Seamless Connectivity
How many minutes should it take to process a reservation?
Amendments/alterations to the reservation
Independent Reservation Services
48. Guest booked to depart today
Expected Departures
Overbooking
Pegasus Solutions
Smith Travel Research's STAR Reports
49. Based entirely on historical date. Does not share specific performance date for each competing property.
50. Needed for large conventions where delegates may stay in many hotels
Internet and Web-Based Reservations
Chain Sites
PHASER complete Access Reports
Role of the Housing Bureau
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