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HOSPITALITY TERMS

PRESENTATION SUBMITED BY-


• Nikhil Gurav
• Anagha V R
• Mahesh Ager
• Rakshita D
• Occupied: A guest is currently registered to the room.
• Cut-Off Date: Date at which all unused guest rooms in a room block
will be released to the public.
• Late Charge: A transaction requiring posting to a guest account that
does not reach the front office system for posting until after the guest
has checked out.
• Registration Card: A printed form for a registration record, a legal
document between the guest and the hotel
• Voucher: A Document detailing a transaction to be posted: used to
communicate information from an unconnected point of sale to the
front office system.
• Block: An agreed-upon number of rooms set aside for members of a
group planning to stay at a hotel.
• No Show: A guest who made a room reservation but did not register or
cancel.
• FIT: Free independent traveller, a traveller who is not part of group.
• Due-out: Guests expected to check out on a given day who have not yet
done so.
• PIA :( Paid in advanced) A guest who pays his or her room charges in
cash during registration or reservations.
• Room rate: The price a hotel charges for a overnight accommodation.
• Log book: A journal in which important front office events and decisions are
recorded for reference during subsequent shifts.
• Guest Folio: It is a record of the charges incurred.
• POS: Point of sale systems, it allows guest account transactions to be
quickly transmitted from remote revenue centres to guest account.
• Cancellation hour: The hour after which a hotel may release for sale all
unclaimed non-guaranteed reservation according to hotel policy.
• CRC: Central reservation centre.
• Guest Ledger: The set of guest account that correspond to registered
hotel guests.
• Cash Bank/Float: is an amount of cash assigned to a receptionist so
that he/she can handle the various transactions during the particular
work shift.
• Overstay: A guest who stays on after their indicated departure date.

• Stay over: A guest not checking out today and will remain at least one
more night.
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