Why do hotel overbookings occur?

The reasons for overbookings in hotels varies as you can see below.

  • You try to distribute rooms with multiple OTAs to avoid being with a single agency
  • It’s a tedious process to update room inventory manually leading to errors
  • OTAs have no access to the latest room inventory details from your end
  • Fear of wasted inventory and profits/loss (Allowing overbooking for increased revenue in case of no shows, or fear of zero revenue due to unused rooms.)
Expedia booking screen image – Hotelogix connects with global OTAs like Expedia for real-time room distribution.

Hotel overbookings

Hotel overbookings are a major concern for hoteliers. The fear of wasted room inventory prompts uncalculated risks that often leads to overbooking issues. You may also face the challenge to manually update room inventory details on multiple OTA channels. The result? Incorrect room inventory reflected online leading to hotel overbookings. What follows is a tarnished image of the hotel brand due to irate guests. What you need is a well-calculated strategy to avoid hotel overbooking issues and keep your occupancy high all through the year.

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