How Well Does The Hotel Industry Understand Jargon?

The ‘Hotel Language Quiz’ from Hotel Speak launched in February 2016 and ended in September 2017. During this time, a total of 973 people completed the quiz and we thought it would be fun to take a look at the results to see just how well the industry ‘speaks hotels’.

The Results

Of the 973 who completed the quiz, the average score was an impressive 72%, with an average time spent on the quiz of just over 11 minutes.

• The most commonly known term was F&B (Food & Beverage) – 93% answered correctly.
• The least commonly known term was RDR (Residential Delegate Rate) – only 34% answered correctly
• Surprisingly, 16% of participants didn’t know what OTA (Online Travel Agents) typically stands for with 3% guessing ‘Opaque Travel Agents’.
• RevPAR (or Revenue Per Available Room) proved tricky too – 40% of participants didn’t know what this stood for.
• Only 56% of participants knew that Worldspan, Galileo and Amadeus are typically know as types of GDS (Global Distribution Systems)

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The Questions

1. Within hospitality, what does ADR commonly stand for?

• Average Daily Rate – 79%
• Additional Day Rate – 8%
• Advance Daily Rate – 7%
• Advance Dinner Reservation – 6%

2. We need to improve our F&B revenue… what does F&B stand for?

• Food & Beverage – 93%
• Front & Back – 3%
• Free & Booked – 2%
• First & Best – 2%

3. MICE business is looking strong this month… what does MICE commonly stand for?

• Meetings, Incentives, Conventions and Exhibitions – 70%
• Monthly, International, Corporate, Events – 16%
• Meetings, Internal, Contracted, External – 7%
• Meetings, Incentives, Contracted, Exhibitions – 7%

4. Our Valentine’s Day offer has a MLOS… what does MLOS typically stand for?

• Minimum Length Of Stay – 66%
• Maximum Limit of Stay – 14%
• Minimum Limited Occupancy Standard – 13%
• Maximum Limit On Stock – 7%

5. Those OTAs keep ‘pinching’ my direct business! What does OTA stand for?

• Online Travel Agents – 84%
• Online Travel Associations – 11%
• Opaque Travel Agents – 3%
• Overall Trade Associations – 2%

6. Worldspan, Galileo and Amadeus are common types of…

• GDS – 56%
• OTA – 19%
• Metasearch Channels – 14%
• Hotel Brands – 10%

7. RevPAR stands for Revenue Paid Against Room…

• False – 60%
• True – 40%

8. Standard rooms are £99 PRPN… what does PRPN usually stand for?

• Per Room per Night – 88%
• Permanent Rate Per Night – 8%
• Private Rate Per Night – 3%
• Payment Returned Per Night – 2%

9. What best describes the average revenue of all rooms, divided by the number of rooms in a hotel, divided by 365 nights…?

• Annual Room Yield – 70%
• Annual Room Inventory – 17%
• Annual Room Volumes – 9%
• Annual Room Stock – 5%

10. Guests staying over after the conference will be charged a RDR of £120… what does RDR stand for?

• Room and Delegate Rate – 36%
• Residential Delegate Rate – 34%
• Representative Daily Rate – 26%
• Residential Dinner Rate – 5%