Hi ,
Dont know wash factor but being currently the Director of Front Office in San Francisco Bay I know the following:
Showroom, : This is a room that the Front desk or housekeeping place aside, either out of service or on hold in order to have for the Sales and Marketing team that do on site showarounds, to either clients or any representatives wanting to see a variety of sampled rooms in the hotel.
Flagship hotel: This is usually the signature brand of a company. For example think of Six Continents, they have variety of brands, crowne plaza, holidayinns, candle wood suites, intercontinentals. However looking at the list, intercontinental is the most profitable brand and the one that is most luxury and highly renowned

Hope this helps.
Received on Sat Jan 7 19:15:59 2006