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Hotel Front Office Management
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.
How many minutes should it take to process a reservation?
Search Engine Optimization
Smith Travel Research's STAR Reports
Meta-Search Technology
2. Guest who stay longer than booked
Stayover
Internet and Web-Based Reservations
Overstay
IT packages
3. Advanced reservations (the best) -Guaranteed Reservation -Confirmed Reservation
Reservations to take
Four primary functions of ASPs
Third Party Travel Sites
Guest History Database
4. Breaks the hotel rates into two categories - GDS and CRAS and looks for the lowest available rate in each of these areas
Hotelligence Report
PHASER complete Access Reports
Central Reservation System (CRS)
Hotel Web Sites
5. Status of rooms sold and available
IT packages
Room Count
Walk-ins
Optional Reservation Data
6. Use stored data to form rules that govern decisions. Allows for instantaneous response to changing conditions
Search Engine Optimization
Automated Inventory Tracking System
Out of Order Rooms (OOO)
Artificial Intelligence/ Expert Systems
7. 40% of annual marketing budget may be spent on online products. Booking through own website nets more revenue than booking through 3rd party websites.
Adjusting the Room Block
Nests and Hurdles
Hotel Web Sites
Reservations to take
8. 5-7%
Overbooking percentage
Internet and Web-Based Reservations
Leisure Guests
In-House Reservation Center
9. Sending a guest with confirmed or guaranteed booking to another hotel as we are full
Third Party Travel Sites
Walking the Guest
Central Reservation Office (CRO)
Four primary functions of ASPs
10. Sites that are not controlled either by the hotel or the chain. (hotwire - expedia - travelocity - orbitz etc..)
Seamless Connectivity
PHASER complete Access Reports
Hotelligence Report
Third Party Travel Sites
11. A CRS -GDS connectivity -Connections to 'alternate' distribution systems -Internet Reservations
Central Reservation Office (CRO)
Four primary functions of ASPs
Expected Departures
Application Service Providers (ASPs)
12. Guests booked to arrive today
Seamless Connectivity
Expected Arrivals
Global Distribution System (GDS)
Four primary functions of ASPs
13. Is able to determine the number of rooms available for sale for a given date. Offers various status reports under the reservations module.
Nests and Hurdles
Automated Inventory Tracking System
Application Service Providers (ASPs)
Early Arrivals
14. Logical rules that give options based on sensitivity
Room Count
Seamless Connectivity
Walk-ins
Fenced Rates
15. Guest booked to depart today
Hotel Web Sites
Meta-Search Technology
Expected Departures
PHASER complete Access Reports
16. The Airlines
Adjusted Room Count
Where did we steal Yield Management from?
Guest History Database
Yield Management Revolution
17. Unavailable long-term due to non-fixable problems. Cannot be sold due to unacceptable condition.
Components of the Simple Room Count
Optional Reservation Data
Early Arrivals
Out of Inventory Rooms (OOI)
18. Encourage booking by enhancing quality of website - offering lowest price guarantee - letting users research for multiple brands at multiple price points with one click.
Expected Arrivals
Chain Sites
Committed Rooms
Group Guests
19. History and preferences of that particular guest. Being used more often today
Search Engine Optimization
Fenced Rates
Guest History Database
Corporate Guests
20. 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.
Four Global Distribution System Providers
Travel Information Management Services (TIMS)
Internet and Web-Based Reservations
Early Arrivals
21. The act of controlling rates and restricting occupancy to maximize gross room revenues
Chain Sites
Yield Management Revolution
Nests and Hurdles
Out of Inventory Rooms (OOI)
22. Less price sensitive - seek flexibility - weekday travel - book at the last minute - cannot wait for deals
Corporate Guests
Hotelligence Report
Reservations to take
Expected Departures
23. The American Society of Association Executives
Spread Rate
Fenced Rates
Group Guests
ASAE
24. Convention guest who try to get a better rate by using other deals
House Count
Where did we steal Yield Management from?
Unidentified Delegates
Four Global Distribution System Providers
25. More sophisticated - accounting for many issues
Early Arrivals
Adjusted Room Count
Role of the Housing Bureau
Independent Reservation Services
26. Estimated over $80 billion. Group delegates spend more dollars.
Group Business
Internet and Web-Based Reservations
Four primary functions of ASPs
PHASER complete Access Reports
27. Faster - more accurate - sells more rooms at higher rates
Independent Reservation Services
Adjusting the Room Block
Seamless Connectivity
Artificial Intelligence/ Expert Systems
28. Software companies that offer a suite of software applications via Internet-based access.
Corporate Guests
Travel Information Management Services (TIMS)
Walk-ins
Application Service Providers (ASPs)
29. Yesterdays stay-overs + today's reserved arrivals
No Show
Expedia Competitive Price Grid Report
Adjusted Room Count
Committed Rooms
30. Place and date more important than rate.
Expedia Competitive Price Grid Report
Amendments/alterations to the reservation
Group Guests
Hotel Web Sites
31. Guest with confirmed/guaranteed booking who does not arrive - but has not cancelled
Four primary functions of ASPs
Adjusted Room Count
Leisure Guests
No Show
32. CRS for hire - used by smaller chains - independent hotels.
Independent Reservation Services
Search Engine Optimization
How many minutes should it take to process a reservation?
Group Business
33. Rates are gathered through the CRS' seamless connection. Displays discounts and lowest available rates for all hotels in the competitive market set
Travel Information Management Services (TIMS)
Out of Inventory Rooms (OOI)
Artificial Intelligence/ Expert Systems
Expected Departures
34. 2-3 minutes
How many minutes should it take to process a reservation?
Central Reservation System (CRS)
Smith Travel Research's STAR Reports
Unidentified Delegates
35. Hurdle point is set - lower rates rejected
What are these global distribution system providers worth?
Expected Departures
Unidentified Delegates
Nests and Hurdles
36. The lodging industry's oldest and most popular provider of ASP Central Reservations software.
Walking the Guest
Group Business
Pegasus Solutions
Role of Yield Management Systems
37. The electronic system - including the last-room availability interface with individual chain properties. Linked airlines with travel agents.
Optional Reservation Data
Central Reservation System (CRS)
Chain Sites
Four primary functions of ASPs
38. Temporarily unavailable due to fixable problems. Can be fixed quickly if absolutely essential. Can be sol at a discount if un-fixed - with disclosure.
Seamless Connectivity
What are these global distribution system providers worth?
Central Reservation System (CRS)
Out of Order Rooms (OOO)
39. Speaking the same language within incompatible systems
Convention and Vistor Bureaus (CVBs)
Electronic Switch Technology
Reservations to take
Understay
40. When a person calls directly to the hotel to book their reservations.
What are these global distribution system providers worth?
Out of Order Rooms (OOO)
Committed Rooms
In-House Reservation Center
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
Leisure Guests
Expedia Competitive Price Grid Report
No Show
Independent Reservation Services
42. Estimated time of arrival -Special Requests -Smoking preferences -Discounts or Affiliations -Address
Yield Management Revolution
Group Guests
Optional Reservation Data
Out of Order Rooms (OOO)
43. 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
Adjusted Room Count
Expedia Competitive Price Grid Report
Internet and Web-Based Reservations
44. Guest who arrive days before booking
Early Arrivals
Pegasus Solutions
What are these global distribution system providers worth?
Search Engine Optimization
45. Changes in dates - names - numbers - room types etc.
Expected Departures
Amendments/alterations to the reservation
Travel Information Management Services (TIMS)
Internet and Web-Based Reservations
46. 1)Amadeus 2)Galileo 3)Sabre 4)Worldspan
Four Global Distribution System Providers
Automated Inventory Tracking System
Stayover
Central Reservation Office (CRO)
47. A negotiated discount below the rack rate. Members pick the rate they want to pay
Spread Rate
Electronic Switch Technology
Walk-ins
Expedia Competitive Price Grid Report
48. In 2001 - Galileo was purchased by Cendant Corporation for $2.9 billion.
Expected Arrivals
Adjusting the Room Block
What are these global distribution system providers worth?
Independent Reservation Services
49. Very price sensitive - weekend travel - will trade price for restrictions - are motivated by deals
Leisure Guests
Global Distribution System (GDS)
Application Service Providers (ASPs)
Fenced Rates
50. 100 booked - 40 used means 60% attrition - 40% pick-up
Pegasus Solutions
Selling Against Room Block
Attrition/Pick-Up Rate
Smith Travel Research's STAR Reports