The dialog country characteristics offers the function country grouping. This function allows you to comply with any requirements by local authorities to supply summarised statistics on certain countries, whilst still entering correct country names in the guest profiles.
è EXAMPLE: To illustrate the procedure, we combine the countries of Bahrain, Kuwait and Oman under the heading of “Gulf States”.
The heading is defined as a grouping in the combobox lg, with a three-digit numerical key.
Figure 8: Combobox lg
Restart SIHOT to load the new combobox. Enter this numerical key with each of the respective countries in the dialog country characteristics (menu Master Files – Configuration).
Figure 9: Country grouping
The countries within the grouping are now listed as one record in the statistics.
Figure 10: Summarised arrival statistics