SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SELLING AND OPERATING HOTEL ROOMS

• US 20120259688A1
• Filed: 12/06/2010
• Published: 10/11/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/18/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Eunsoon Kim
• Original Assignee: Eunsoon Kim
• Inventors: Kim, Eunsoon
• Application Number:
  US13/516,862
• Publication Number:
  US 20120259688A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/14.23
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions

Abstract

A hotel room marketing and operating system includes a room-selling server for providing the room vendee with room-selling information related to the plurality of rooms of the hotel or the residence; an operation server for receiving the room-selling information on the rooms from the room-selling server, calculating a sales amount of a room of each room vendee based on operation information for marketing and operating the hotel rooms and providing a result of calculating the sales amount of each room; requesting and receiving sales and operation information and a result of calculating a sales amount of a room purchased by the vendee.

Claims

1. A hotel room marketing and operating system in which a hotel has a plurality of rooms, the system comprising:

an operation server for receiving room-selling information related to the plurality of rooms of the hotel or a residence, making a deposit of an amount paid by a guest who has used a room into a bank account of a corresponding room vendee based on sales and operation information of the hotel room, receiving a management fee from each vendee, calculating a sales amount of the room of the room vendee, and providing a result of calculating the sales amount of the room; and

a plurality of vendee terminals installed with an operation program connected to the operation server, for purchasing a desired room, and requesting and receiving sales and operation information and a result of calculating the sales amount of the room purchased by the vendee.

2. The system according to claim 1, further comprising:

a room-selling server for providing the room vendee with the room-selling information related to the plurality of rooms of the hotel or the residence.

3. The system according to claim 1, wherein the operation server includes:

a data transmission and reception unit for transmitting and receiving data in association with the operation program;

an operation information input unit for receiving operation information of each room;

a control unit for controlling each component to calculate a sales amount of each room based on the inputted operation information and room-selling information;

a per-room sales amount calculation unit for calculating the sales amount of each room;

a room-selling information DB for storing the room-selling information of each room;

an operation information DB for storing detailed information on operation of the room;

a service provider DB for storing information on a service provider of the room vendee who has registered the purchased room; and

a member information DB for storing information on guest members of each service provider of the room.

4. The system according to claim 3, wherein the per-room sales amount calculation unit calculates a sales amount of each room so as to assign sales of a room generated at a specific unit to the room vendees in order.

5. The system according to claim 3, wherein the per-room sales amount calculation unit applies a different rental fee to each room and calculates a sales amount of each room so as to assign sales of a room to:

a renter designated to a corresponding room depending on an occupancy rate and data on using the room based on a marketing result of each room.

6. The system according to claim 3, wherein the per-room sales amount calculation unit calculates a sales amount of each room so as to evenly split a total sales amount among renters by dividing the total sales amount generated at a specific unit by the number of rooms.

7. The system according to claim 1, wherein the service provider on a side of the plurality of vendee terminals who has purchased the room from the room-selling server of the investor or an offline room-selling agent registers as an individual service provider or a corporation service provider to launch sales of the room and protects the ownership or the right on the deposit by making an ownership registration or a rental registration, becomes an agent of the operation server and manages to directly deposit a sales income generated from the owned or rented hotel room into a bank account of the room vendee or the renter, i.e., an individual service provider, and pays a fixed fee and a variable fee of the hotel managed by the operating company as a rental fee and a contracted management fee on a basis of a contract unit such as a daily, weekly or monthly basis from a sales amount generated from the rooms of the vendee or the renter of each room registered as a service provider.

8. The system according to claim 1, wherein the purchase of the rooms is a rental purchase in which a rental period is set for the rented room, and the room vendee is the renter.

9. The system according to claim 1, wherein a method of operating the plurality of rooms of the hotel or the residence includes a method in which the service provider who has purchased the room through the operation server performs sales activities by himself or herself and sells the room that the vendee has purchased (hereinafter, referred to as a I check-in method), a method in which a regular price guest paying a regular room rate determined by the hotel or a discount price guest paying a discounted room rate is assigned by turns to an unoccupied hotel room that is not sold in the I check-in method (hereinafter, the method of checking in the regular price guest is referred to as a II-1 check-in method, and the method of checking in the discount price guest is referred to as a II-2 check-in method), and a method in which if a room vendee attracts guests in a day more than the rooms that the vendee has purchased, the guests are assigned with rooms of the other room vendees, and room charges are split based on a certain sales amount allocation rule (e.g., a rule of allocating the room charges to room vendees who have attracted the guests and room vendees who have allowed to use their rooms) (hereinafter, referred to as a III check-in method).

10. The system according to claim 9, wherein in the methods described above, when the II-1 check-in method or the II-2 check-in method should be used so that all the room vendees may receive same benefits, and if all the rooms are occupied in the I check-in method or the III check-in method, a guest is immediately assigned with a room in the II-1 check-in method or the II-2 check-in method when the room is unoccupied.

11. The system according to claim 9, wherein the II-1 check-in method or the II-2 check-in method may be divided into several check-in methods depending on a discount rate of:

a discounted price so that all the room vendees may receive same benefits, in which the II-2 check-in method can be subdivided into a II-2-1 check-in method if the discount rate is 10%, a II-2-2 check-in method if the discount rate is 20%, a II-2-3 check-in method if the discount rate is 30%, and the like.

12. The system according to claim 9, wherein in the methods described above, when an unoccupied room is assigned to a guest in the II-1 check-in method of the regular price guest and the II-2 check-in method of the discount price guest, all the rooms are assigned by turns depending on the number of guests, with a cycle having a different starting point.

13. The system according to claim 12, wherein the II-2-1 check-in method, the II-2-2 check-in method and the II-2-3 check-in method also determine a starting room and assign a room to a guest as described above.

14. A method of selling a plurality of rooms and marketing and operating the rooms of a hotel, the method comprising the steps of:

(a) determining whether or not room-selling information of the rooms of the hotel or a residence is inputted and storing the inputted room-selling information in a room-selling information DB;

(b) determining whether or not operation information of the rooms is inputted from an operation program and storing the inputted operation information;

(c) depositing an amount paid by a guest who has used a room into a bank account of a corresponding room vendee based on the room-selling information and the operation information, receiving a management fee from each vendee, and calculating a sales amount of each room; and

(d) transmitting information on the calculated sales amount of each room to a corresponding room vendee.

15. The method according to claim 14, wherein if purchase of a room is made offline, step (a) inputs detailed room-selling information of the room, such as a purchase amount, a management fee and a rental fee (in a case of a rent), into the operation server of an operating company.

16. The method according to claim 14, wherein step (c) calculates a sales amount of each room so as to assign sales of a room generated at a specific unit to room vendees in order.

17. The method according to claim 14, wherein step (c) applies a different rental fee to each room and calculates a sales amount of each room so as to assign sales of a room to a designated renter depending on an occupancy rate and data on use of the room based on a marketing result of each room.

18. The method according to claim 14, wherein step (c) calculates a sales amount of each room so as to evenly split a total sales amount among renters by dividing the total sales amount generated at a specific unit by the number of rooms.

19. The method according to claim 14, wherein in step (c),

a method of operating the plurality of rooms of the hotel or the residence includes a method in which the service provider who has purchased the room through the operation server performs sales activities by himself or herself and sells the room that the vendee has purchased (hereinafter, referred to as a I check-in method), a method, in which a regular price guest paying a regular room rate determined by the hotel or a discount price guest paying a discounted room rate is assigned by turns to an unoccupied hotel room that is not sold in the I check-in method (hereinafter, the method of checking in the regular price guest is referred to as a II-1 check-in method, and the method of checking in the discount price guest is referred to as a II-2 check-in method), and a method in which if a room vendee attracts guests in a day more than the rooms that the vendee has purchased, the guests are assigned with rooms of the other room vendees, and room charges are split based on a certain sales amount allocation rule (e.g., a rule of allocating the room charges to room vendees who have attracted the guests and room vendees who have allowed to use their rooms) (hereinafter, referred to as a III check-in method).

20. The method according to claim 19, wherein in the methods described above, when the II-1 check-in method or the II-2 check-in method should be used so that all the room vendees may receive same benefits, and if all the rooms are occupied in, the I check-in method or the III check-in method, a guest is immediately assigned with a room in the II-1 check-in method or the II-2 check-in method when the room is unoccupied.

21. The method according to claim 19, wherein the II-1 check-in method or the II-2 check-in method may be divided into several check-in methods depending on a discount rate of a discounted price so that all the room vendees may receive same benefits, in which the II-2 check-in method can, be subdivided into a II-2-1 check-in method if the discount rate is 10%, a II-2-2 check-in method if the discount rate is 20%, a II-2-3 check-in method if the discount rate is 30% and the like.

22. The method according to claim 19, wherein in the methods described above, when an unoccupied room is assigned to a guest in the II-1 check-in method of the regular price guest and the II-2 check-in method of the discount price guest, all the rooms are assigned by turns depending on the number of rooms, with a cycle having a different starting point.

23. The method according to claim 22, wherein the II-2-1 check-in method, the II-2-2 check-in method and the II-2-3 check-in method also determine a starting room and as sign a room to a guest as described above.

24. A computer readable recording medium capable of recording, in a computer, a program for implementing a method of selling a plurality of rooms and marketing and operating the rooms of a hotel, the method comprising:

(a) a function of determining whether or not room-selling information of the rooms of the hotel or a residence is inputted and storing the inputted room-selling information in a room-selling information DB;

(b) a function of determining whether or not operation information of the rooms is inputted from an operation program and storing the inputted operation information;

(c) a function of depositing an amount paid by a guest who has used a room into a bank account of a corresponding room vendee based on the room-selling information and the operation information, receiving a management fee from each vendee, and calculating a sales amount of each room; and

(d) a function of transmitting information on the calculated sales amount of each room to a corresponding room vendee.