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Room status

Meaning in tourism & hospitality, with examples

nounCommon term

In tourism & hospitality, room status means: The current condition of a room in the hotel system, such as vacant clean, vacant dirty, occupied or out of order.

In Turkish: oda durumu

How it is used

Housekeeping and the front desk share room status all day through the PMS or a phone app. Common codes are VC (vacant clean), VD (vacant dirty), OC (occupied clean), OD (occupied dirty) and OOO. Reception should give guests only rooms that are vacant and inspected.

Example sentences

  1. Can you update the room status for 506? It's clean and ready now.

  2. The room status report shows twelve vacant dirty rooms on the third floor.

Common collocations

  • update the room status
  • room status report
  • vacant clean
  • vacant dirty
  • room status discrepancy
  • housekeepingThe hotel department that cleans and prepares guest rooms and public areas and looks after towels, sheets and room supplies.
  • out of orderNot working; for a hotel room, closed for repairs and taken off sale until the problem is fixed.
  • room inspectionA check by a housekeeping supervisor that a cleaned room meets the hotel's standards before it is given to a new guest.
  • stayoverIn housekeeping, a room whose guest is staying another night, so it needs daily cleaning but not a full departure clean.
  • PMSShort for property management system: the hotel software used for reservations, check-in and check-out, room status and guest bills.

More terms: Housekeeping

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