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Room attendant

Meaning in tourism & hospitality, with examples

/ˈruːm əˌtendənt/nounCore term

In tourism & hospitality, room attendant means: A housekeeping employee who cleans guest rooms, makes the beds and restocks towels and supplies.

In Turkish: kat görevlisi, oda görevlisi, kat hizmetleri görevlisi

How it is used

The standard modern job title; older words such as maid or chambermaid can sound outdated. Each room attendant gets a list of rooms for the shift and reports problems such as broken items or forgotten belongings to the housekeeping office.

Example sentences

  1. In high season, each room attendant cleans about fourteen rooms a day.

  2. The room attendant found a phone under the bed and took it to lost and found.

Common collocations

  • work as a room attendant
  • room attendant trolley
  • assign rooms to room attendants
  • room attendant checklist
  • housekeepingThe hotel department that cleans and prepares guest rooms and public areas and looks after towels, sheets and room supplies.
  • make up a roomTo clean and tidy a hotel room, make the bed and replace towels and supplies so that it is ready for the guest.
  • linenIn a hotel, all the cloth items used in rooms and restaurants, such as sheets, pillowcases, duvet covers, towels and tablecloths.
  • lost and foundThe place or system in a hotel for keeping items that guests have lost or left behind until they are collected or sent back.

More terms: Housekeeping

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