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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. Guests booked to arrive today
Leisure Guests
Committed Rooms
Expected Arrivals
Hotel Web Sites
2. CRS for hire - used by smaller chains - independent hotels.
Expedia Competitive Price Grid Report
Independent Reservation Services
IT packages
Electronic Switch Technology
3. Speaking the same language within incompatible systems
Group Guests
Hotel Web Sites
ASAE
Electronic Switch Technology
4. Based entirely on historical date. Does not share specific performance date for each competing property.
5. Faster - more accurate - sells more rooms at higher rates
Selling Against Room Block
Out of Order Rooms (OOO)
Seamless Connectivity
Stayover
6. Yesterdays stay-overs + today's reserved arrivals
Application Service Providers (ASPs)
Committed Rooms
Role of the Housing Bureau
Leisure Guests
7. Rooms available -Occupied last night -Expected check-outs -Stayovers -Today's Reservations -Rooms committed today -Rooms available for sale -Occupancy percentage
Where did we steal Yield Management from?
Components of the Simple Room Count
Flat Rate/Run of the House
Corporate Guests
8. Temporarily unavailable due to fixable problems. Can be fixed quickly if absolutely essential. Can be sol at a discount if un-fixed - with disclosure.
Attrition/Pick-Up Rate
Convention and Vistor Bureaus (CVBs)
Independent Reservation Services
Out of Order Rooms (OOO)
9. 1)Amadeus 2)Galileo 3)Sabre 4)Worldspan
Hotel Web Sites
Four Global Distribution System Providers
ASAE
Out of Inventory Rooms (OOI)
10. 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.
Reservations to take
Search Engine Optimization
Overbooking
Flat Rate/Run of the House
11. Some get suites - some get singles - all pay same rate
Early Arrivals
Role of Yield Management Systems
Flat Rate/Run of the House
Third Party Travel Sites
12. A negotiated discount below the rack rate. Members pick the rate they want to pay
Committed Rooms
Flat Rate/Run of the House
How many minutes should it take to process a reservation?
Spread Rate
13. 40% of annual marketing budget may be spent on online products. Booking through own website nets more revenue than booking through 3rd party websites.
Central Reservation System (CRS)
Pegasus Solutions
Hotel Web Sites
Role of Yield Management Systems
14. The actual office site at which chain reservationists reside.
Adjusted Room Count
Out of Inventory Rooms (OOI)
Artificial Intelligence/ Expert Systems
Central Reservation Office (CRO)
15. Estimated time of arrival -Special Requests -Smoking preferences -Discounts or Affiliations -Address
Reservations to take
Optional Reservation Data
Pegasus Solutions
Role of the Housing Bureau
16. 100 booked - 40 used means 60% attrition - 40% pick-up
Expedia Competitive Price Grid Report
Attrition/Pick-Up Rate
Hotel Web Sites
House Count
17. Logical rules that give options based on sensitivity
Independent Reservation Services
Fenced Rates
How many minutes should it take to process a reservation?
Pegasus Solutions
18. Guest who leave earlier than expected
PHASER complete Access Reports
Adjusting the Room Block
Understay
Electronic Switch Technology
19. Publicly funded - quasi-govermetnal organizations to represent city's hospitality industry. Represent bid for large and small conferences
Convention and Vistor Bureaus (CVBs)
Role of the Housing Bureau
Role of Yield Management Systems
Central Reservation System (CRS)
20. Guest who stay longer than booked
Four primary functions of ASPs
Adjusted Room Count
Overstay
Role of Yield Management Systems
21. Needed for large conventions where delegates may stay in many hotels
Role of the Housing Bureau
Application Service Providers (ASPs)
Expected Arrivals
No Show
22. History and preferences of that particular guest. Being used more often today
Group Guests
Spread Rate
Selling Against Room Block
Guest History Database
23. 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.
Adjusting the Room Block
How many minutes should it take to process a reservation?
Fenced Rates
Pegasus Solutions
24. Guest with confirmed/guaranteed booking who does not arrive - but has not cancelled
Nests and Hurdles
No Show
Guest History Database
Selling Against Room Block
25. The act of controlling rates and restricting occupancy to maximize gross room revenues
Four primary functions of ASPs
Artificial Intelligence/ Expert Systems
Corporate Guests
Yield Management Revolution
26. Unavailable long-term due to non-fixable problems. Cannot be sold due to unacceptable condition.
Selling Against Room Block
ASAE
Out of Inventory Rooms (OOI)
Smith Travel Research's STAR Reports
27. A CRS -GDS connectivity -Connections to 'alternate' distribution systems -Internet Reservations
Understay
Four primary functions of ASPs
Smith Travel Research's STAR Reports
Third Party Travel Sites
28. More rooms sold than available - done deliberately.
Understay
Overbooking
Four primary functions of ASPs
Seamless Connectivity
29. The Airlines
Where did we steal Yield Management from?
Seamless Connectivity
Out of Order Rooms (OOO)
How many minutes should it take to process a reservation?
30. The lodging industry's oldest and most popular provider of ASP Central Reservations software.
Expedia Competitive Price Grid Report
Optional Reservation Data
Expected Departures
Pegasus Solutions
31. The American Society of Association Executives
ASAE
Categories of Group Business
IT packages
How many minutes should it take to process a reservation?
32. Hotel sets up and sells own package to individuals. May be better than the group rate.
IT packages
Walk-ins
House Count
Travel Information Management Services (TIMS)
33. More sophisticated - accounting for many issues
Stayover
Out of Order Rooms (OOO)
Group Guests
Adjusted Room Count
34. 2-3 minutes
Role of Yield Management Systems
How many minutes should it take to process a reservation?
Overbooking percentage
Attrition/Pick-Up Rate
35. 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
Electronic Switch Technology
Hotelligence Report
Overbooking percentage
Adjusting the Room Block
36. 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
Nests and Hurdles
Spread Rate
House Count
37. Very price sensitive - weekend travel - will trade price for restrictions - are motivated by deals
Attrition/Pick-Up Rate
Leisure Guests
Where did we steal Yield Management from?
Expected Arrivals
38. Estimated over $80 billion. Group delegates spend more dollars.
Global Distribution System (GDS)
Group Business
Understay
Nests and Hurdles
39. Less price sensitive - seek flexibility - weekday travel - book at the last minute - cannot wait for deals
Out of Order Rooms (OOO)
Internet and Web-Based Reservations
Four primary functions of ASPs
Corporate Guests
40. Encourage booking by enhancing quality of website - offering lowest price guarantee - letting users research for multiple brands at multiple price points with one click.
Four primary functions of ASPs
Adjusted Room Count
Overbooking percentage
Chain Sites
41. Convention guest who try to get a better rate by using other deals
Group Guests
Unidentified Delegates
Attrition/Pick-Up Rate
Internet and Web-Based Reservations
42. 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)
Committed Rooms
Travel Information Management Services (TIMS)
Chain Sites
43. 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 Inventory Rooms (OOI)
Role of Yield Management Systems
Selling Against Room Block
Overbooking
44. In 2001 - Galileo was purchased by Cendant Corporation for $2.9 billion.
Corporate Guests
Meta-Search Technology
Central Reservation Office (CRO)
What are these global distribution system providers worth?
45. Continuing guest - as per booking
Stayover
Adjusting the Room Block
Chain Sites
Selling Against Room Block
46. 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
Room Count
Expedia Competitive Price Grid Report
Expected Arrivals
Role of the Housing Bureau
47. The role that airline reservation systems played
Flat Rate/Run of the House
Walking the Guest
Global Distribution System (GDS)
Four Global Distribution System Providers
48. Hurdle point is set - lower rates rejected
Early Arrivals
IT packages
Nests and Hurdles
Walk-ins
49. When a person calls directly to the hotel to book their reservations.
House Count
Third Party Travel Sites
In-House Reservation Center
Group Guests
50. Use stored data to form rules that govern decisions. Allows for instantaneous response to changing conditions
Hotel Web Sites
Spread Rate
Flat Rate/Run of the House
Artificial Intelligence/ Expert Systems