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Reservation system

Meaning in tourism & hospitality, with examples

nounCommon term

In tourism & hospitality, reservation system means: Software or a booking platform used to record, manage, update, and track reservations, rates, and room availability.

In Turkish: rezervasyon sistemi

How it is used

Common in hotel operations, call centers, and online booking management. Often appears with access, update, sync, and outage.

Example sentences

  1. The reservation system was temporarily offline, so the agent wrote new bookings on paper and entered them later.

    Here, reservation system means the operational tool needed to process bookings, and its outage changes the workflow.

  2. Before opening more rooms for sale, revenue checked whether the reservation system had synced with the channel manager.

    In this sentence, the term refers to the booking platform whose data must match other sales tools.

Common collocations

  • online reservation system
  • reservation system outage
  • update the reservation system
  • reservationAn arrangement made in advance to keep a room, table, seat or service for a guest on a particular date.
  • availabilityWhether rooms, tables, seats or places on a tour are free to be booked on a particular date.

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