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Sleep-out

Meaning in tourism & hospitality, with examples

nounCommon term

In tourism & hospitality, sleep-out means: A registered guest's absence from their room overnight while the room remains assigned to them.

In Turkish: kayıtlı konuğun geceyi dışarıda geçirmesi

How it is used

Internal hotel jargon; verify facts before recording it and avoid treating absence as an automatic departure.

Example sentences

  1. The guest told reception about a planned sleep-out and asked us to keep the room for his return.

    The guest remains registered even though the room will not be used that night.

  2. We checked the reported sleep-out with reception before assuming the guest had checked out.

    An unused bed alone does not establish that the stay has ended.

Common collocations

  • record a sleep-out
  • reported sleep-out
  • in-houseDescribes guests who are staying in the hotel at the moment, or services and staff that the hotel provides itself rather than using an outside company.
  • room statusThe current condition of a room in the hotel system, such as vacant clean, vacant dirty, occupied or out of order.

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