Group bookings and the room blocks that anchor them drive the role — coordinating reservations for weddings, corporate events, conventions, and sports teams at a hotel or hotel chain. The operational bridge between sales and operations.
Group room blocks and rooming lists are the daily working product — contracts handed off from sales, blocks loaded into the property management system, rooming lists reconciled, attrition dates managed. You're often the operational owner of every group on the books. Group conversion, attrition management, and block fulfillment anchor the visible measures.
The harder part is often the attrition cliff — group cutoff dates pass, unsold rooms release, and revenue management adjusts. The coordinator manages the dance between sales's commitment and actual pickup. Variance across employers is real: major chains run sophisticated group platforms; at independent hotels the coordinator often handles group sales, contracts, and operations together.
Folks who do well here often are detail-precise and patient under property-management complexity. The trade-off is the steady stream of group adjustments as event dates approach — never-ending small changes. Hospitality credentials and PMS fluency anchor advancement into senior group-sales or revenue-management roles.
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View all Admin & Office roles →Group bookings and the room blocks that anchor them drive the role — coordinating reservations for weddings, corporate events, conventions, and sports teams at a hotel or hotel chain. The operational bridge between sales and operations.
Median pay for a Group Reservations Coordinator is about $41K nationally, with the field ranging roughly from $35K to $75K depending on experience, employer, and metro (BLS).
Core skills for this role include Service Orientation, Active Listening, Speaking, Social Perceptiveness, and Reading Comprehension.
Most people in this role hold a high school diploma.
Employment in this field is projected to grow about 2.8% through 2034, with roughly 127,440 people working in it today (BLS).
Closely related roles include Ticket Clerk, Ticket Seller, and Ticket Dispatcher.
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