{"id":22714,"date":"2020-04-14T08:25:24","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T08:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/uncategorized\/stay\/"},"modified":"2024-12-23T09:21:14","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T09:21:14","slug":"stay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/stay","title":{"rendered":"Stay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is the meaning \/ definition of Stay in the <a class=\"glossary-only-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/hospitality-industry\">hospitality industry<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"glossary-only-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/stay\">Stay<\/a> is the period of time that a customer stays in a guest room of a <a class=\"glossary-only-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/hotel\">hotel<\/a>.\u00a0Stay is your overnight visit at a hotel where you will need an <a class=\"glossary-only-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/lodging\">accommodation<\/a> to stay regardless of the number of nights.<\/p>\n<p>For example, whether if you are staying at a hotel for 2, 5, 10 days or even 2 weeks, that is still counted as 1 stay.\u00a0If you visit the hotel 10 times and stay 1 night each time you visit, that will be counted as 10 stays.<\/p>\n<p>This is the reason why hotel businesses also have a <a class=\"glossary-only-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/alos-average-length-of-stay\">ALOS<\/a> (Avarage <a class=\"glossary-only-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/los-length-of-stay\">length of stay<\/a>) in order to calculate the length of stay of their guests in the hotel.<\/p>\n<p><strong>See Also:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a class=\"glossary-only-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/minlos-minimum-length-of-stay\">MinLOS<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"glossary-only-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/maxlos-maximum-length-of-stay\">MaxLos<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Synonyms<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stay<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the meaning \/ definition of Stay 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":[9,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-glossary","category-s"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Stay Definition \/ Meaning - Xotels<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Definition: Stay is the period of time that a customer stays in a guest room of a hotel.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/stay\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Stay Definition \/ Meaning - Xotels\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Definition: Stay is the period of time that a customer stays in a guest room of a hotel.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/stay\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Xotels\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-04-14T08:25:24+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-12-23T09:21:14+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Patrick Landman\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@xotels\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Patrick Landman\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":[\"Article\",\"BlogPosting\"],\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.xotels.com\\\/en\\\/glossary\\\/stay#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.xotels.com\\\/en\\\/glossary\\\/stay\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Patrick Landman\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.xotels.com\\\/en\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/f51e882bd553ae1b905fc0214cdca6f5\"},\"headline\":\"Stay\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-04-14T08:25:24+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-12-23T09:21:14+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.xotels.com\\\/en\\\/glossary\\\/stay\"},\"wordCount\":126,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.xotels.com\\\/en\\\/#organization\"},\"articleSection\":[\"Hotel Terminology &amp; 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