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• Room Types based on intended numbers of occupants:

  • Single Occupancy: has one bed
  • Double Occupancy: for two people
  • Triple Occupancy: for three occupants
  • Quad Occupancy: for four guests
• Common Room Categories in the United States, the Caribbean, Canada, and Mexico:

  • Partial Ocean View
  • Ocean View
  • Ocean Front
  • Beach Front
  • City View
  • Mountain View
  • Water View
  • Island View
  • Pool View
  • Garden View
• Room Views:

  1. Single room: a room with a single bed

  2. Twin room: a room with two single beds

  3. Double room: a room with a large bed

  4. Double-double: has two or queen beds

  5. Triple rooms: with 3 single beds

  6. Quadruple room: a room for four fitted with four single beds

  7. Family room: a room with at least 1 double bed, with 1 or more single beds

  8. King room: has a king-size bed, occupied by 1 or 2 people

  9. Connecting rooms: have 2 or more rooms with an entrance door from the outside and a door between them
• Room Configurations:

  • Standard configuration: the majority of the sleeping rooms at a particular hotel
  • Enhanced configuration: includes more amenities and services than the standard configuration
  • Suite configuration: involves a larger room than the standard configuration, with examples like "Jr." Suite, Corner Suite, "Bi-level" Suite, Hospitality Suite, Presidential Suite
• Disabled access configurations include rooms equipped with features like raised beds, wider doorways, telecommunication devices, voice-activated dialing, clocks with larger, brighter numbers, and closed-caption televisions
• Bed Classifications:

  1. Single Bed: approximately 36" x 75" in size

  2. Double Bed: approximately 54" × 75" in size

  3. Queen Bed: about 60' x 80" in size

  4. King Bed: about 78 × 80" in size

  5. California King Size Bed: approximately 84" x 72" in size

  6. Roll-away bed: a portable bed

  7. Pull-out bed: inserted into a bed and pulled out when used

  8. Sofa-bed: a couch that converts into a bed
• Revenue sources in hotels are divided into three main categories: Sleeping Rooms, Meeting/Function Space, and Outlets/Ancillary Revenue Sources

  
• Sleeping rooms are the main product of any hotel, with the primary purpose of providing accommodations
• Occupancy, the measurement of how many rooms are sold each night versus how many rooms the hotel has available to sell, is crucial for overall hotel performance
• Meeting/Function Space revenue sources come from renting out meeting rooms for group functions and providing food and beverage services in these spaces
• Outlets/Ancillary Revenue Sources include food and beverage points of sale, business centers, golf courses, and in-room amenities like minibars and in-room movies
• Different types of hotel guests include:

  • Walk-in Guests: those who come unannounced looking for rooms
  • Corporate Accounts: apply to companies with special credit arrangements in the hotel
  • Associations: groupings of individuals or groups for a common purpose, using hotel services for events
  • Travel Agencies: pre-arrange bookings for tour groups in hotels or serve as intermediaries for booking clients
  • Government Institutions/Offices: have special booking or credit arrangements with hotels

  
• Other types of hotel guests include Educational Institutions, Local/Domestic Travelers, Balikbayan, and Free Independent Travelers (FIT)