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Hotel terminology: A complete guide for hotel owners

SiteMinder

CTA (Closed to arrival) A yield restriction preventing check-ins on a specific date to protect high-demand periods. CTD (Closed to departure) Blocks check-outs on a chosen date, encouraging guests to stay through a peak night.

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Hotel Budget Plan: Are you Ready for 2026? (Template & Example)

Xotels

Typically, the hotel budget season starts towards the end of August with presentations to management starting the following month. However, with trends ever evolving and Covid-19 impacting booking behaviour, it is important to take factors such as booking windows, cancellations trends, increasing room rates, and inflation into account.

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What is Yield Management: Guide for Hotels

SiteMinder

What is Yield Management? Yield management is a pricing and revenue management strategy that is used to maximise business performance. It involves adjusting prices based on predicted demand and other external factors to maximise revenue or yield. A similar principle can apply to distribution.

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What is a channel manager? All you need to know

Cloudbeds

And even then, manually-managed distribution is risky: any delays in updating rates and availability on a channel’s extranet could mean selling a room that isn’t available or selling at a lower rate, which can lead to overbooking and sub-optimal yield management. The same happens with a cancellation. What’s allotment ?

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Hotel Revenue Management Strategies

Xotels

Key factors considered in market segmentation include length of stay , day-of-week stays, total revenue per room , total revenue per client, booking lead time, cancellation percentage, and no-show ratio. The graph considers cancellations and identifies peak or slow booking days.

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How Google Hotel Ads is Penetrating the Hotel Distribution Vertical, and the Opportunity this Presents for Hotels

Xotels

This means that, in case of cancellation, no commission is due to Google. “What became clear as the COVID crisis unfolded,” Michael Trauttmansdorff, Google’s Group Product Manager for Travel Ads, stated, “was that cancellations especially were a major factor.

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Occupancy vs ADR, the Never Ending Discussion in Revenue Management

Xotels

I have been in hotel revenue management consulting since 2006, and it is a question that keeps coming back. Owners that are closely watching the P&L statement are especially keen to understand how they can drive the bottom line of their hospitality business. How can I make more profit with my hotel?’ Article Summary: Which is it?