The formula
Occupancy % = room nights sold ÷ room nights available × 100
Room nights available is rooms × nights. Conventions differ on rooms that cannot be sold: some properties take out-of-order rooms out of the base, others keep them in so the number shows what the breakdown cost. Pick one and keep it, or month-on-month comparisons mean nothing.
A hostel usually counts beds rather than rooms, because a dorm with six of eight beds taken is not "full".
Occupancy on its own can be bought with low prices; read it with ADR, or look at RevPAR, which combines both.
Example
A 30-room hotel in a 31-day month has 930 room nights. It sells 651.
Occupancy = 651 ÷ 930 × 100 = 70%
A 40-bed hostel that sells 28 beds tonight is at 70% bed occupancy.
How Nivasik handles it
- Revenue Insights shows revenue against occupancy from the property's own bookings.
- The next-30-nights view counts capacity as units × 30, so one booked night out of thirty reads as what it is.
- Hostels run dorm beds as units, each with its own QR code.