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Rooming List
A detailed list of individual guest names and room assignments submitted by a group organizer for a block booking. The rooming list is typically due 14-30 days before arrival and converts anonymous group block rooms into named reservations.
Why it matters: The rooming list is the moment of truth for group pickup. Until it is received, the hotel cannot be certain how many group rooms will actually materialize. Late or incomplete rooming lists create forecasting uncertainty and complicate room assignment.
Worked example: A conference blocks 60 rooms a night for three nights at A$175, cutoff 21 days out. The list lands on day 21 with 41 names. Nineteen rooms a night — 57 room nights — return to you with three weeks to sell them. At BAR A$215 that is 57 x A$215 = A$12,255 against the A$9,975 the block would have paid, provided somebody actually reopens them in the channel manager that afternoon.
Common mistake: Waiting for the rooming list before adjusting the forecast. The organiser's registration numbers, the pickup curve and last year's list for the same event tell you weeks earlier that 60 will land near 41. Forecast the wash, price the date accordingly, and let the list confirm what you already assumed.