Exam Practice Questions 2026
Exam All Answers and
Illustrations Given
What is bigger in the tourism industry, fixed costs or variable costs? -
ANSWER ✔✔fixed costs are bigger
-Think of an airplane: staffing, airport fees (fixed) - huge amount of the
costs for airplanes come from fixed costs; food, fuel (variable) - not as
easy to determine the variable costs
We can reduce prices (even below total cost per room), as long as the
, reduced price covers, fixed cost per room or variable cost per room? -
ANSWER ✔✔We can reduce prices as long as the reduced price
covers the variable cost per room
-because we are going to have the fixed costs not matter if we have the
person in the room or not
High Value Customers tend to book early or last? - ANSWER ✔✔last
Do we sell "time blocks" or "physical products"? - ANSWER ✔✔time
blocks
What implication do time blocks have? - ANSWER ✔✔we cannot
store it for tomorrow, it is gone once it is not sold for that day
"I want my hotel to be the first to sell out in the market": Correct or
incorrect? - ANSWER ✔✔incorrect
RM can be organized with different levels regarding the people involved.
How many? Which ones? - ANSWER ✔✔Property Level - Corporate
Level - 3rd Party Services
What does a booking curve represent? - ANSWER ✔✔the expected
number of bookings for each day until the arrival date
-forecasted bookings