For making the accommodation types bookable when you create a new accommodation type or when you want to mark it ready for next book year, it is important to add 'Release' for your accommodation types.
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- Release dates: You can specify 'Available from' and 'Available until' dates when adding a release to the accommodation type (not more than 731 days in advance).
- Release days: You can select the checkbox "Relatively available . (number of days in the future)" to add the release for relative number of days in future (not more than 731 days in advance).
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