Best Available Rate (BAR)
Quick answer
The lowest publicly available, unrestricted rate a hotel is selling on a given night — the benchmark a corporate negotiated rate is measured against.
The lowest publicly available, unrestricted rate a hotel is selling on a given night — the benchmark a corporate negotiated rate is measured against.
Explore related terms: Application Programming Interface , Average Daily Rate (Hotel ADR) , Carbon Dioxide Equivalent (CO₂e)
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A defined connection between two travel systems (OBT to expense tool, HR system to OBT, TMC to risk-management platform) that lets them pass data back and forth automatically.
The average price paid per occupied room per night — a core hotel benchmarking metric for both hoteliers and corporate buyers.
A single unit that bundles all greenhouse gases (CO₂, methane, nitrous oxide and others) into the warming impact they'd have as an equivalent amount of CO₂ — the standard unit for reporting travel emissions.
The umbrella for non-financial performance areas — environmental impact, social/people/community impact, and governance and ethics — that corporates increasingly report on and are judged by.
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