Jargon Buster
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- Age group or age categories
- Ancillary income
- Annotations, accreditations and referencing
- Area profiles or area profile reports
- Associate attender
- Attender
- Audience potential
- Average
- Average daily attendance
- Average price paid
- Average rate of attendance
- Average spend per head
- Booker
- Booking
- Capacity
- Catchment area or core catchment
- Caveats and qualifications
- Churn
- Commas (numeric)
- Complimentary or comp
- Concession
- Core catchment
- Core income or core turnover
- Data capture rate
- Data or customer reference date
- Demographic profile
- Discount and percentage discount
- Door sale
- Drivetime or isochrone
- Economic impact
- Event
- Family
- Financial capacity
- Footfall
- Frequency
- Frequent
- Geoanalysis, geodemography and geodemographic profile
- Gratuity
- Gross income
- Group
- Hotspot
- Index or comparative index
- Isochrone
- Lapsed
- Local resident and local community
- Loyalty scheme
- Margin for sampling error
- Market potential
- Marketing spend per attender
- Mean or arithmetic mean
- Median
- Members or membership scheme
- Mode
- Model data
- Net income
- No show
- Occasional
- Occupancy
- Pareto effect or pareto principle
- Party
- Penetration
- Percentage
- Percentage capacity and percentage occupancy
- Percentage change
- Population
- Potential audience
- Proportion
- Rate of attendance
- Regular
- Research objective
- Reservation
- Response rate
- Robust
- Sales promotion
- Sample
- Sample size
- Segmentation
- Series or run
- Social grade
- Subscriber
- Subscription or subscription discount
- Subsidy per head
- Tourist or visitor
- Transaction
- Transaction total, total income per transaction or total transaction value
- Unpaid reservation
- Visitor
- Year
- Yield per attender or average yield per attender
- Young person
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- Social grade
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- Gross income
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- Economic impact
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Occasional
Something that happens at a lower rate than is the norm (or is typical) for a given set of circumstances.
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Occupancy
The proportion of units of accommodation (i.e. seats or spaces) within a venue that are available for use, that has actually been used. Most frequently calculated as percentage occupancy.