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Tourism & Hospitality vocabulary · Reservations & Rates

Early booking

Meaning in tourism & hospitality, with examples

/ˌɜːrli ˈbʊkɪŋ/nounCommon term

In tourism & hospitality, early booking means: Booking a holiday or hotel stay months in advance, often to get a discount offered for bookings made before a certain date.

In Turkish: erken rezervasyon

How it is used

Hotels and tour operators run early booking campaigns, usually in winter for the following summer. Common phrases: early booking discount, early booking period, early booking deadline. In English, early bird offer is also common.

Example sentences

  1. Book before 31 January to get our 25% early booking discount.

  2. Guests with early booking rates can't change their dates without paying the difference.

Common collocations

  • early booking discount
  • early booking period
  • early booking campaign
  • early booking deadline
  • bookTo arrange in advance to have a room, table, ticket or tour on a certain date, by phone, online or through an agency.
  • high seasonThe busiest time of year for tourism, when demand is strongest and hotel and travel prices are at their highest.
  • rack rateThe hotel's full, standard price for a room before any discounts, special offers or contract rates are applied.
  • tour operatorA company that puts together holiday packages from flights, hotels, transfers and tours and sells them directly or through travel agencies.

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