This document defines key hospitality terms used in hotel front office operations. It includes terms such as occupied, cut-off date, late charge, registration card, voucher, block, no show, FIT, due-out, PIA, room rate, log book, guest folio, POS, cancellation hour, CRC, guest ledger, cash bank/float, overstay, and stay over. These terms relate to guest reservations, bookings, payments, check-ins, check-outs, and other front office processes and procedures. The document was submitted by Nikhil Gurav, Anagha V R, Mahesh Ager, and Rakshita D.
This document defines key hospitality terms used in hotel front office operations. It includes terms such as occupied, cut-off date, late charge, registration card, voucher, block, no show, FIT, due-out, PIA, room rate, log book, guest folio, POS, cancellation hour, CRC, guest ledger, cash bank/float, overstay, and stay over. These terms relate to guest reservations, bookings, payments, check-ins, check-outs, and other front office processes and procedures. The document was submitted by Nikhil Gurav, Anagha V R, Mahesh Ager, and Rakshita D.
This document defines key hospitality terms used in hotel front office operations. It includes terms such as occupied, cut-off date, late charge, registration card, voucher, block, no show, FIT, due-out, PIA, room rate, log book, guest folio, POS, cancellation hour, CRC, guest ledger, cash bank/float, overstay, and stay over. These terms relate to guest reservations, bookings, payments, check-ins, check-outs, and other front office processes and procedures. The document was submitted by Nikhil Gurav, Anagha V R, Mahesh Ager, and Rakshita D.
• 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. THANK YOU