You work very hard to gauge attendance and have gone through the site selection process to contract the best hotel.
Group room block attrition calculation.
Holiday inn central reservations.
If you fall short of picking up 160 room nights then you will pay an attrition penalty on the difference.
Avoiding room block attrition fees attrition fees continue to be the bane of existence for many organizations but especially in the smerf market said dunn o neal.
It is also important to block a few rooms early and late so the group rate will be loaded in the central reservation system i e.
Now you need to home in on an appropriate room block.
Now we re getting into the more advanced lingo.
Base attrition on the total number of guest rooms booked for the duration of the event not rooms reserved for each day.
The only disadvantage is that most hotels will not offer you a courtesy room block if you need more than 30 or 40 rooms per night.
If the contracted room block is 100 rooms per night for 3 nights and attrition is 10 then you may lower your total room commitment to 270 room nights.
A group should block rooms accordingly and never agree to room attrition holding the group responsible for more than 75 hopefully not more than 65.
This type of attrition is based on the total room pickup for the room block.
As a refresher attrition is a term used describe when your actual room block pickup is less than what you contracted if you don t make your room block then you re in attrition the term also describes the amount of leeway a hotel offers you if you don t pick up your block as in you have 20 allowable attrition.
However only 13 rooms are booked by your guests and your contract states that your attrition rate is 75.
This method looks at only the group s rooms commitment and assumes that when a room is empty the hotel.
A lost profits percentage of the room rate for each unused room in the group s block.
For example if you have a block of 50 rooms per night for a four day event this counts as a cumulative 200 room block.
For example let s say you make a block of 20 rooms for your wedding.
Cumulative attrition our next preferred attrition clause would be the cumulative attrition.
Attrition rate refers to the percentage of rooms that must be filled in order to avoid paying a penalty.
Industry veterans like to debate 3 different ways to calculate attrition each of which has its own proponents.
The percentage method.
As a refresher attrition is a term used describe when your actual room block pickup is less than what you contracted if you don t make your room block then you re in attrition the term is also used to describe the amount of leeway a hotel offers you if you don t pick up your block as in you have 20 allowable.
