What is a hotel extranet? The “front end” of a hotel sales website (i.e. Expedia.com or Booking.com) displays the hotel’s information to allow guests to book stays with the hotel. The hotel extranet is the “back end” of a hotel sales...
What is a hotel brand? A hotel brand is referred to as the hotel chain (such as Holiday Inn, or Hilton) that a hotel joins with. A hotel can change their brand (i.e. switch from a Hilton to a Holiday Inn) during the course of the lifetime of the hotel. This can also...
What does hotel sell rate mean? When your hotel’s room nights are sold via one of your distribution channels, the amount the guest has to pay for your hotel’s room night is the sell...
What does the term hotel allocation mean? A hotel’s allocation is the number of rooms a hotel has available to sell. Example: If a 100 room hotel has 25 rooms reserved for the 10th, this means they have an “allocation” of 75 rooms left to sell via...
What does CTD or Closed To Departure mean? When CTD aka “closed to departure” is set for a date, a guest can not book this date if their stay ends on this date. If their stay includes this date, but does not end on it – then it would be bookable when the customer is...
