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Hotel Acronyms & Abbreviations: The 2025 Glossary Every Hospitality Professional Should Know

STAAH

A ADR – Average Daily Rate : The average revenue earned per occupied room in a given period. ALOS – Average Length of Stay : The average number of nights guests spend at the property. BEO – Banquet Event Order : A document outlining the details of an event for the operations team. corporate travel).

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Hotel terminology: A complete guide for hotel owners

SiteMinder

Hotel terminology is the specialised vocabulary and shorthand that hospitality professionals use to describe rooms, rates, technology, and performance metrics. ABVPAR (Average booking value per available room) Divides total booking value by the number of available rooms to reveal how much revenue each room could generate.

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Maximizing Hotel Revenue: Advanced Channel Manager Strategies for 2025

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GDS and Niche OTA Power b. With consumer behaviours evolving, and the lines between tech platforms, marketing, and operations blurring, a modern strategy goes far beyond just listing rooms on online travel agents (OTAs). Pooled Inventory: Smart Inventory Distribution Forget manually allocating rooms to different OTAs.

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Effective Hotel Sales Strategies to Increase Revenue

Hotelogix

Maximize Direct Bookings to Reduce Dependence on OTAs When guests book through Online Travel Agents (OTAs) like Booking.com or Expedia, hotels often have to pay hefty commission fees, sometimes up to 20%. While OTAs help bring in new customers, relying too heavily on them can hurt your bottom line. front-page listing).

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How to build a strong travel brand: Guide for hotels

SiteMinder

Those details back up the promise and set the property apart from the sea of generic listings on OTAs. For multi-property operators, consistency is vital. Technology that syncs rates, availability and content across channels keeps the story straight and avoids brand-damaging surprises.

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Tryp.com: Expert guide for hotel owners

SiteMinder

By listing your property on Tryp.com, you appear where these younger travellers are already researching trips, without relying solely on the usual OTAs. In this blog, we’ll show you how to set up and optimise your Tryp.com listing and explain how SiteMinder keeps your rates and availability perfectly in sync.

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EBITDAR explained: Driving financial health for hotels

Cloudbeds

EBITDAR (Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, Amortization, and Restructuring/Rent) is a profit metric that excludes costs not directly related to operational performance. EBITDAR is calculated using details from the income statement, which presents a company’s revenues and operating expenses over a specific period.