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