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Room inventory

Meaning in tourism & hospitality, with examples

nounCommon term

In tourism & hospitality, room inventory means: The total set of rooms a property has available to sell, often organized by type, date, condition, and sales channel.

In Turkish: oda envanteri

How it is used

Common in revenue management and distribution when planning rates, opening or closing room types, and controlling allocations across channels.

Example sentences

  1. Because maintenance blocked three deluxe rooms, the revenue manager adjusted the room inventory before updating channel availability.

    Here it means the count and mix of sellable rooms after unavailable units are removed from commercial use.

  2. The hotel reviews room inventory every morning to decide which categories can support group requests without hurting transient sales.

    In this sentence, the term refers to operational stock used for sales decisions, not just a physical list of rooms.

Common collocations

  • manage room inventory
  • room inventory control
  • available room inventory
  • room rateThe price a hotel charges for a room for one night, which can change with the season, room type and booking channel.
  • ADRShort for average daily rate: the average price paid for each room sold, calculated as room revenue divided by the number of rooms sold.

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