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Group booking

Meaning in tourism & hospitality, with examples

nounCommon term

In tourism & hospitality, group booking means: A single reservation for many rooms or people travelling together, such as a tour group, a wedding party or a company event.

In Turkish: grup rezervasyonu, grup kaydı

How it is used

Hotels often define a group as ten rooms or more. Group bookings have special rates, deposit dates and a rooming list deadline, and are usually handled by the sales or groups team. Staff talk about group check-in, group arrivals and group billing.

Example sentences

  1. We have a group booking of 40 rooms arriving from Germany on Friday.

  2. For group bookings, we need the rooming list at least seven days before arrival.

Common collocations

  • make a group booking
  • group booking rate
  • group check-in
  • group arrival
  • group rate
  • rooming listA list of the guests in a group, sent before arrival, showing their names, room types and who shares a room with whom.
  • allotmentA number of rooms that a hotel gives a tour operator or agency to sell for set dates at agreed rates under a contract.
  • tour operatorA company that puts together holiday packages from flights, hotels, transfers and tours and sells them directly or through travel agencies.
  • MICEShort for meetings, incentives, conferences and exhibitions: the part of tourism that deals with business events and group travel for companies.

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