50 room nights

Chinese translation: 50間客房/夜晚

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English term or phrase:50 room nights
Chinese translation:50間客房/夜晚
Entered by: Nai-Ching Ting

01:55 Oct 15, 2008
English to Chinese translations [PRO]
Marketing - Tourism & Travel
English term or phrase: 50 room nights
Minimum 50 room nights in total is required to qualify.

What is the proper Chinese translation of "room nights"?

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Cindy Zhao
China
Local time: 19:51
50間客房/夜晚
Explanation:
This refers to the measurement unit for group reservation of hotel room nights, 50 room nights as a basic unit.
Please refer to: meetingsnet.com/negotiating/contracts/meetings_clause_effect_complimentary/
That is, if a group has 49 rooms on the first night and 51 on the second night, a cumulative calculation would yield two complimentary room nights, ...
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Nai-Ching Ting
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Summary of answers provided
4 +350间/晚
William Lee (@Li Zhiqiang)
4 +150間客房/夜晚
Nai-Ching Ting
4 +150晚
Seang Chong
450晚客房
Ritchest
350间客房
Sherwin Zhou
350 房次
Zhiwei Ouyang


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50間客房/夜晚


Explanation:
This refers to the measurement unit for group reservation of hotel room nights, 50 room nights as a basic unit.
Please refer to: meetingsnet.com/negotiating/contracts/meetings_clause_effect_complimentary/
That is, if a group has 49 rooms on the first night and 51 on the second night, a cumulative calculation would yield two complimentary room nights, ...


Nai-Ching Ting
Local time: 06:51
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agree  Yurek: available room nights. The total number of hotel rooms available, multiplied by the number of days in a given time period. The hotel's inventory.
1 day 8 hrs
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50晚


Explanation:
See reference translation below.

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Note added at 16 mins (2008-10-15 02:11:31 GMT)
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中国有些饭店也用“间夜”for room night. see below:
http://www.zhongshantour.com.cn/static/2005-06-16/1118890744...

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Note added at 29 mins (2008-10-15 02:24:59 GMT)
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It's a way to measure the qualification for certain incentive/program of a hotel. Room night is used so that customer can have the choice of accumulating the number of nights stay instead of number of room used. eg. 50 room nights is required to fulfill the qualification, customer can either fulfill this by taking 50 rooms X 1 night stay or 25 rooms x 2 nights stay,etc. they equally come to a total of 50 roomnights. (Likewise, if 50 rooms is required, it means the customer has to take 50 units of room at one time). This is only how room night is counted. However 'xx晚' is simply good to translate the 'roomnight'.


    Reference: http://bbs.dict.cn/viewthread.php?tid=9194&extra=page%3D29
Seang Chong
Malaysia
Local time: 19:51
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Native speaker of: Native in ChineseChinese, Native in EnglishEnglish

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agree  Xu Dongjun
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50间/晚


Explanation:
"room nights" is very commonly translated as "间/晚".

William Lee (@Li Zhiqiang)
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agree  LIZ LI
9 mins

agree  TRANS4CHINA
13 mins

agree  Jason Young
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50晚客房


Explanation:
50晚客房


Ritchest
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50间客房


Explanation:
nights =at night; 用国内习惯说法,可以不需要将夜晚表达出来

Sherwin Zhou
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1 day 1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
50 房次


Explanation:
这是一个计量单位。
1 room x 50 night = 50 room nights
50 room x 1 night = 50 room nihgts.
在汉语中类似的说法有“人次”、“车次”等。


Zhiwei Ouyang
China
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