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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. Breaks the hotel rates into two categories - GDS and CRAS and looks for the lowest available rate in each of these areas
Central Reservation Office (CRO)
How many minutes should it take to process a reservation?
Corporate Guests
PHASER complete Access Reports
2. 1)Amadeus 2)Galileo 3)Sabre 4)Worldspan
Room Count
Four Global Distribution System Providers
Artificial Intelligence/ Expert Systems
Travel Information Management Services (TIMS)
3. Temporarily unavailable due to fixable problems. Can be fixed quickly if absolutely essential. Can be sol at a discount if un-fixed - with disclosure.
Out of Order Rooms (OOO)
Committed Rooms
Flat Rate/Run of the House
Pegasus Solutions
4. Guest with confirmed/guaranteed booking who does not arrive - but has not cancelled
Global Distribution System (GDS)
No Show
Group Guests
House Count
5. When a person calls directly to the hotel to book their reservations.
Corporate Guests
Where did we steal Yield Management from?
In-House Reservation Center
House Count
6. Hotel sets up and sells own package to individuals. May be better than the group rate.
Role of the Housing Bureau
Corporate Guests
IT packages
Walk-ins
7. The American Society of Association Executives
What are these global distribution system providers worth?
Group Business
Selling Against Room Block
ASAE
8. Very price sensitive - weekend travel - will trade price for restrictions - are motivated by deals
Central Reservation System (CRS)
Artificial Intelligence/ Expert Systems
Group Guests
Leisure Guests
9. Rooms available -Occupied last night -Expected check-outs -Stayovers -Today's Reservations -Rooms committed today -Rooms available for sale -Occupancy percentage
Guest History Database
Room Count
Components of the Simple Room Count
Four primary functions of ASPs
10. Publicly funded - quasi-govermetnal organizations to represent city's hospitality industry. Represent bid for large and small conferences
ASAE
Convention and Vistor Bureaus (CVBs)
In-House Reservation Center
Group Guests
11. Needed for large conventions where delegates may stay in many hotels
Attrition/Pick-Up Rate
Role of the Housing Bureau
Hotel Web Sites
Travel Information Management Services (TIMS)
12. Guest who arrive days before booking
Global Distribution System (GDS)
How many minutes should it take to process a reservation?
Pegasus Solutions
Early Arrivals
13. Is able to determine the number of rooms available for sale for a given date. Offers various status reports under the reservations module.
Adjusting the Room Block
Reservations to take
Automated Inventory Tracking System
Independent Reservation Services
14. The lodging industry's oldest and most popular provider of ASP Central Reservations software.
Fenced Rates
Artificial Intelligence/ Expert Systems
Hotelligence Report
Pegasus Solutions
15. Status of rooms sold and available
Overstay
Guest History Database
Room Count
Pegasus Solutions
16. 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
Hotel Web Sites
Expedia Competitive Price Grid Report
Understay
Components of the Simple Room Count
17. More sophisticated - accounting for many issues
Central Reservation Office (CRO)
Yield Management Revolution
Role of Yield Management Systems
Adjusted Room Count
18. Guest who stay longer than booked
What are these global distribution system providers worth?
Overstay
Selling Against Room Block
Search Engine Optimization
19. 40% of annual marketing budget may be spent on online products. Booking through own website nets more revenue than booking through 3rd party websites.
Categories of Group Business
Central Reservation System (CRS)
Travel Information Management Services (TIMS)
Hotel Web Sites
20. 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
Early Arrivals
Role of Yield Management Systems
Optional Reservation Data
Walking the Guest
21. Sites that search all available websites to present side-by-side comparisons and booking options (kayak - sidestep or travelzoo)
IT packages
Overbooking
Meta-Search Technology
Search Engine Optimization
22. 100 booked - 40 used means 60% attrition - 40% pick-up
Pegasus Solutions
Attrition/Pick-Up Rate
Electronic Switch Technology
Optional Reservation Data
23. Less price sensitive - seek flexibility - weekday travel - book at the last minute - cannot wait for deals
Corporate Guests
How many minutes should it take to process a reservation?
Adjusting the Room Block
Internet and Web-Based Reservations
24. Software companies that offer a suite of software applications via Internet-based access.
Application Service Providers (ASPs)
Four Global Distribution System Providers
Components of the Simple Room Count
Overbooking
25. CRS for hire - used by smaller chains - independent hotels.
Room Count
Independent Reservation Services
Where did we steal Yield Management from?
Expected Arrivals
26. Some get suites - some get singles - all pay same rate
Committed Rooms
Travel Information Management Services (TIMS)
Flat Rate/Run of the House
Independent Reservation Services
27. Convention guest who try to get a better rate by using other deals
Components of the Simple Room Count
Adjusting the Room Block
Smith Travel Research's STAR Reports
Unidentified Delegates
28. Number of guests in hotel
Smith Travel Research's STAR Reports
ASAE
Four primary functions of ASPs
House Count
29. 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.
Internet and Web-Based Reservations
Yield Management Revolution
Leisure Guests
Fenced Rates
30. History and preferences of that particular guest. Being used more often today
Smith Travel Research's STAR Reports
Guest History Database
Expedia Competitive Price Grid Report
Stayover
31. Estimated time of arrival -Special Requests -Smoking preferences -Discounts or Affiliations -Address
Out of Order Rooms (OOO)
Group Guests
Optional Reservation Data
Overstay
32. Sending a guest with confirmed or guaranteed booking to another hotel as we are full
Global Distribution System (GDS)
Out of Inventory Rooms (OOI)
Group Guests
Walking the Guest
33. Place and date more important than rate.
In-House Reservation Center
Group Guests
Amendments/alterations to the reservation
Convention and Vistor Bureaus (CVBs)
34. Guest who leave earlier than expected
Hotel Web Sites
Group Guests
Understay
Chain Sites
35. Yesterdays stay-overs + today's reserved arrivals
Categories of Group Business
Convention and Vistor Bureaus (CVBs)
Committed Rooms
Role of the Housing Bureau
36. Encourage booking by enhancing quality of website - offering lowest price guarantee - letting users research for multiple brands at multiple price points with one click.
Unidentified Delegates
Electronic Switch Technology
Chain Sites
No Show
37. Guests booked to arrive today
Committed Rooms
What are these global distribution system providers worth?
Expected Arrivals
Adjusting the Room Block
38. 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.
IT packages
No Show
Adjusting the Room Block
Expected Departures
39. Guest without reservations needing rooms
Walk-ins
Reservations to take
Role of the Housing Bureau
No Show
40. The role that airline reservation systems played
Yield Management Revolution
Global Distribution System (GDS)
Understay
Overbooking percentage
41. The Airlines
Room Count
Where did we steal Yield Management from?
Search Engine Optimization
Stayover
42. Rates are gathered through the CRS' seamless connection. Displays discounts and lowest available rates for all hotels in the competitive market set
Expected Departures
Travel Information Management Services (TIMS)
Convention and Vistor Bureaus (CVBs)
Four Global Distribution System Providers
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
Corporate Guests
Adjusted Room Count
Hotelligence Report
PHASER complete Access Reports
44. In 2001 - Galileo was purchased by Cendant Corporation for $2.9 billion.
Where did we steal Yield Management from?
Central Reservation System (CRS)
Categories of Group Business
What are these global distribution system providers worth?
45. A CRS -GDS connectivity -Connections to 'alternate' distribution systems -Internet Reservations
Stayover
Global Distribution System (GDS)
Selling Against Room Block
Four primary functions of ASPs
46. The actual office site at which chain reservationists reside.
Unidentified Delegates
Central Reservation Office (CRO)
Categories of Group Business
Selling Against Room Block
47. Advanced reservations (the best) -Guaranteed Reservation -Confirmed Reservation
Electronic Switch Technology
Reservations to take
Yield Management Revolution
Out of Order Rooms (OOO)
48. 5-7%
Electronic Switch Technology
Pegasus Solutions
Overbooking percentage
Fenced Rates
49. 2-3 minutes
Committed Rooms
Seamless Connectivity
Where did we steal Yield Management from?
How many minutes should it take to process a reservation?
50. Guest booked to depart today
PHASER complete Access Reports
Expected Departures
Application Service Providers (ASPs)
In-House Reservation Center