Turismo News July 11, 2026

Travel industry glossary

Your reference guide to hotel technology, distribution and marketing terms. For professionals who use them every day and for students still learning them. Each term comes with a clear definition and a concrete example. This is nobody's official glossary, it is how we at Turismo News explain the concepts that show up in our analysis.

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BAR

The best available rate is the public, flexible price a hotel offers at any moment for a date, with no special conditions. It is...

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Comp set

The comp set is the group of hotels you compare yourself against to tell whether you are doing well or badly. It is chosen by...

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Displacement

Displacement analysis looks at how much higher priced business you turn away by accepting a group or a low rate contract. A big...

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Estacionalidad

Seasonality is the concentration of demand in certain times of year, with a full, pricey high season and a soft, cheap low...

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Lead time

Lead time is how many days before the stay a booking is made. A short lead time means people book last minute and forces playing...

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MLOS

Minimum length of stay is a restriction that forces booking a number of nights to be allowed into a given date. It protects high...

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Open pricing

Open pricing is setting each rate and each segment independently instead of moving them all chained to the BAR with fixed...

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Pace

Pace is the rate at which bookings build for a date compared with how the same day ran last year or with the target. If you are...

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Pickup

Pickup is the new bookings coming in for a date over a given window, for example the last seven days. It measures how fast a...

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Rate shopping

Rate shopping is automatically watching your competitors' prices and your own across channels to decide with data. A tool scrapes...

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Total revenue management

Total revenue management extends revenue logic beyond the room to everything the hotel earns: restaurant, spa, meeting space,...

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