Many hotels ignore the convention market because convention delegates spend so much less per day than do other guest types.
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High-demand days (New Year's eve; Super Bowl, etc.) can be stretched to high-demand weekends or even 3-day affairs by requiring a minimum stay and refusing one-night reservations.
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Placing the bath on the inside corridor wall of the guest room creates a sound buffer to the hall and leaves the external wall for windows and balconies.
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A budget hotel might have a 1:1 employee to guest ratio, while a casino hotel would be even better, say 0.05 employees to each room.
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The actual size of a projected hotel can be determined simply by multiplying the number of guest rooms by the square footage of each room.
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Late charges are reduced dramatically when POS terminals are used in the dining room because they:
a. Identify guests who have already checked out, preventing new charges from being made.
b. Flag paid-in-advance guests who are not permitted to charge
c. Alert cashiers to balances that exceed allowable credit limits
d. Record charges instantaneously rather than waiting for a runner to take the voucher to the desk
e. All of the above
Opaque web sites disassociate the name of the hotel from the deeply discounted rate until the transaction has been completed.
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Hotel reservations are legal contracts, which is why law suits by hotels against guests for no-shows and law suits by guests against hotels for failing to honor their reservations are growing in number and dollar settlements.
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Guest-service agents play solitaire with the room rack by shifting room blocks and changing pre-assigned reservations, as the arrival/departure pattern of walks-ins and check-outs becomes apparent.
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A three-day billing pattern is used by most hotels for speedy check outs and banquet charges because prompt billing is one key to reducing bad debts.
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