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The real cost of a double booking

Double bookings aren't a hostess problem — they're a data problem. We pulled six months of cover data and found the real number.

Daria Ilic · Jun 12, 2026 · 7 min
Inside the data
Venues sampled87
Double-booking events1,204
Avg cost per event£214
Top causeMulti-platform inbound · 82%
Post-VenueCore drop−94%