{"id":22445,"date":"2020-04-07T09:15:14","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T09:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/uncategorized\/allocation\/"},"modified":"2024-12-23T09:22:29","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T09:22:29","slug":"allocation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/allocation","title":{"rendered":"Allocation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is the meaning \/ definition of Allocation in the <a class=\"glossary-only-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/hospitality-industry\">hospitality industry<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>In the <a class=\"glossary-only-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/hotel-industry\">hotel industry<\/a>, allocation describes the process of selecting a number of rooms and making them available for sale. A <a class=\"glossary-only-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/hotel\">hotel<\/a> manager may choose to allocate only a limited amount rooms towards sales in order to have them available for sale when expecting higher revenues at a later period.<\/p>\n<p>This term is often used in reference to Allotment (Allocation or Allotment contract)<\/p>\n<p><strong>See also:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a class=\"glossary-only-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/inventory\">Inventory<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Synonyms:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a class=\"glossary-only-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/allotment\">Allotment<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the meaning \/ definition of Allocation in the  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a","category-glossary"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Allocation Definition \/ Meaning - Xotels<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"What is the meaning \/ definition of Allocation in the hospitality industry? 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