Data analytics is, of course, helpful to better understand your hotel’s direct channel performance, but what’s most useful is being able to compare your results to the market to identify potential growth drivers. The Benefits of Hotel Benchmarking Hotel benchmarking enables you not only to access competitive insights but to make better-informed decisions and take action in those areas that
The hotel business is unique in many ways, as exemplified by the unique KPIs we use, from revenue per available room (RevPAR), to average daily rate (ADR), occupancy, and everything in between. We can thank the advent of yield and revenue management that came to our industry in the 1980s for much of these metrics. But another metric that more
The hotel industry employs many unique key performance indicators. ADR (average daily rate), RevPAR (revenue per available room) and Occ% (occupancy) naturally come to mind. These metrics reflect the unique nature of our business, but their existence also drives our attention and actions. Watching your hotel’s KPIs translates into optimizing key activities to influence those KPIs positively. As the old
Technology is becoming more and more ingrained into the daily operations of today’s hoteliers, with hotel technology itself evolving in leaps and bounds. As hotel tech platforms and tools become more advanced and marketing-savvy, it becomes increasingly difficult for hoteliers to sift through the noise to find the best tools to meet their specific needs. In this article, you'll learn
Revenue per occupied room, or RevPOR, is a KPI used within hotel management to assess financial performance. As a result, it can play a role in a revenue management strategy. Its main value to hotel owners is in giving them an idea of exactly how much revenue they make from the rooms they manage to sell. Table of Contents: What
Average daily rate (ADR) is a KPI commonly used for revenue management within the hotel industry. As a metric, ADR's primary value is its ability to reveal the average rental income connected to occupied rooms each day, which is valuable for revenue management. It can give hotel owners an idea of their current operating performance, especially compared to other hotels
Revenue management is a data-driven approach to predicting customer behavior, to optimize product pricing and availability to maximize revenue. It is especially useful in the hotel industry, because hotels have limited rooms available and experience varying demand levels. Several key performance indicators, or KPIs, should be tracked when carrying out a revenue management strategy. KPIs are quantifiable measures that allow
Net revenue per available room, or NRevPAR, is used by those within the hotel industry as part of a wider revenue management strategy, helping them to assess overall business performance. As a KPI, the NRevPAR metric is similar to RevPAR, but factors in distribution costs. Therefore, it is arguably a more accurate performance indicator. What is NRevPAR? The NRevPAR metric
The average revenue per account, or ARPA, is a KPI used in the hotel industry for revenue management. The metric tells hotel owners the amount of revenue generated, on average, per customer account. As a result, it is a good indicator of business performance. The metric is sometimes known as average revenue per user. What does ARPA stand for? ARPA,
Revenue per available room, or RevPAR, and gross operating profit per available room, or GOPPAR, are two of the most vital KPIs available to hotel managers. Both form an important part of any effective revenue management strategy. Both metrics concern themselves with occupancy rates, but they detail very different things, as one is centered around money being brought in, while
Revenue per available room, or RevPAR, and revenue per occupied room, or RevPOR, are two KPIs used within the hotel industry, especially for revenue management purposes. Although the two metrics have similar names, what they measure is quite different, meaning neither KPI is necessarily more useful than the other. How Do You Calculate RevPAR and RevPOR? The formulas for working