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Wash factor

Meaning in tourism & hospitality, with examples

nounAdvanced term

In tourism & hospitality, wash factor means: An estimated proportion of booked rooms expected to cancel or otherwise not be used.

In Turkish: rezervasyon kayıp oranı tahmini

How it is used

Revenue planners apply it to forecasts; it is an estimate, not permission to ignore confirmed bookings.

Example sentences

  1. Using a ten percent wash factor, we forecast ninety occupied rooms from the block of one hundred.

    The forecast subtracts expected booking losses from the reserved total.

  2. We reduced the wash factor after this group's bookings became fully prepaid.

    Stronger commitment changes the expected loss rather than the current booking count.

Common collocations

  • apply a wash factor
  • estimated wash factor
  • unconstrained demandEstimated demand for rooms if the hotel had no sell-out limits, closed dates, or other inventory restrictions affecting bookings.
  • no-showA guest who has a reservation but neither arrives nor cancels; the word also describes the booking itself.

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