Revenue Management
CTD — Closed to Departure
A restriction blocking departures on a date, steering stays to extend past a peak.
Academic definition
Closed to Departure (CTD) is an inventory restriction that prevents guests from checking out on a specified date, requiring stays that would otherwise end that day to extend to a later departure. It is the mirror of closed to arrival and is used to encourage stays that continue through or past a high-demand night, ensuring that valuable dates are occupied by multi-night bookings rather than left exposed by early departures. CTD is typically deployed alongside minimum length of stay and closed to arrival as part of a coordinated set of length-of-stay controls around a peak period. By shaping when guests may leave, it influences occupancy on the protected date without closing it to all business. As with related restrictions, an overly aggressive CTD risks deflecting demand, so it is calibrated against the demand forecast and booking pace for the affected dates.
Worked example
Anticipating a Sunday demand spike, a hotel sets CTD on Saturday so weekend guests cannot depart Sunday morning, holding them an extra night that earns revenue with no new acquisition cost.
The ProfitPAR™ lens
CTD works the calendar from the departure end, and its profit value is the same family of logic: keep an already-acquired guest in the building for one more high-demand night rather than reselling that room to a fresh, commission-bearing arrival. Every night you extend an existing stay is a night of revenue with no new acquisition cost attached — the cheapest revenue a hotel can earn. ProfitPAR™ favours these controls because they bias the property toward the lowest-leak bookings on the page: longer stays, fewer arrivals, less commission per night. CTD is a quiet way to fill a peak with margin instead of with expensively won single nights.
Extending a stay you already won is the cheapest revenue on the calendar.
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