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Industry shorthand for the number of hotel rooms in a property.

Related terms

  • Management contract

    An arrangement where an operator runs a hotel for a fee while the owner retains ownership.

  • Market penetration index (MPI)

    A hotel's occupancy divided by its competitive set's occupancy, indexed to 100; it isolates share of demand (heads in beds) separately from rate performance.

  • Occupancy

    The share of available rooms sold in a period.

  • Pipeline (hotel)

    The set of hotels signed, under construction, or approved but not yet open in a market; a heavy pipeline signals future supply pressure on occupancy and rate,…

  • Rack rate

    A hotel's published, undiscounted room rate before any corporate, negotiated, or promotional deal; almost no guest pays it, but it sets the ceiling against whi…

  • Ramp-up

    The period after opening during which a hotel builds toward stabilised performance.

  • RevPAR

    Revenue per available room - occupancy multiplied by ADR; the headline hotel metric.

  • RevPAR index

    A hotel's revenue per available room divided by that of its competitive set, indexed to 100; above 100 means the hotel is capturing more than its fair share of…