Hotel-tech glossary

Occupancy

The share of available room nights that were sold over a given period.

Occupancy is the percentage of room nights sold out of room nights available. It is one of the three core revenue-management metrics alongside ADR and RevPAR. Occupancy alone is misleading: a hotel can hit high occupancy by discounting heavily, which compresses ADR and may not lift RevPAR.

Related terms

ADR

Average Daily Rate. Room revenue divided by number of rooms sold over a period.

RevPAR

Revenue Per Available Room. The blended metric: ADR × occupancy.

Part of the hotel-tech glossary. Maintained by Maciej Dudziak, founder of Guestivo.