{"id":22494,"date":"2020-04-08T08:21:50","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T08:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/uncategorized\/complimentary\/"},"modified":"2024-12-23T09:22:07","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T09:22:07","slug":"complimentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/complimentary","title":{"rendered":"Complimentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is the meaning \/ definition of Complimentary in the <a class=\"glossary-only-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/hospitality-industry\">hospitality industry<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Complimentary services or products are those given to an audience \/ a customer without charge. This term is often used in the tourism and <a class=\"glossary-only-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/hospitality-industry\">hospitality industry<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Examples: Complimentary bottle of water in your room, free Wifi, complimentary room service, an upgrade to a higher room category without additional costs.<\/p>\n<p>Guided visits and excursions in addition to a hotel <a class=\"glossary-only-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/stay\">stay<\/a> can also be an added value that a <a class=\"glossary-only-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/hotel\">hotel<\/a> decides to offer its guests for free.<\/p>\n<p>Another example can be: A client or a group staying in your hotel books a conference room. Within the conference room there are other services included, like: Wifi, projector, water, coffee and cookies, notebooks and pens. Those \u2018extras\u2019 are complimentary services (they are calculated into the conference room package price but for the customer they are \u2018complimentary\u2019)<\/p>\n<p><strong>See also: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a class=\"glossary-only-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/foc-free-of-charge\">FOC<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Synonyms<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Complimentary<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the meaning \/ definition of Complimentary 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":[34,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c","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>Complimentary Definition \/ Meaning - Xotels<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Definition: Complimentary services or products are those given to an audience \/ a customer without charge. 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