Travel terms starting with B

15 terms

  1. Back to back A term used to describe tours operating on a consistent, continuing basis. For instance, a motorcoach arriving in a city from a cross-country tour may…
  2. Bed and breakfast (B&B) Overnight accommodations usually in a private home or boarding house, often with a full American-style or Continental breakfast included in one rate.
  3. Bell captain The person in charge of luggage at a hotel.
  4. Benchmarking To measure a process or practice according to specified standards or references
  5. Beneficiary A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract.
  6. Best practice(s) Used to designate highest quality, excellence, or superior practices in a particular field by a tourism operator.
  7. Biometrics (BY-oh-MEH-triks) The science of collecting and analyzing biologic or health data using statistical methods.
  8. block A repetition/replication of the Early, Mid and Late Seral Treatment plots and a Control plot. See Repetition/replication.
  9. Booking form A document which purchasers of tours must complete to give the operator full particulars about who is buying the tour.
  10. BPA - Bonneville Power Administration, blanket purchase agreement.
  11. Break-even point (BEP) The point at which revenues and expenses are the same. For example, the BEP is the number of products (or seats, cabins, tickets, etc.
  12. Break-even pricing Pricing a product based on a forecast of the break-even point and the cost of achieving the break-even point.
  13. Breakage Expenses budgeted for a tour but not used or expended, thus resulting in additional profit to the tour operator.
  14. Budgeted balance sheet A budget that measures total assets and liabilities.
  15. Budgeted income statement A budget that tracks revenues and expenses. Also called the profit and loss statement.