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Occupancy rate

Meaning in tourism & hospitality, with examples

/ˈɑːkjəpənsi reɪt/nounCommon term

In tourism & hospitality, occupancy rate means: The percentage of a hotel's available rooms that are sold over a certain period, such as a night, a month or a season.

In Turkish: doluluk oranı, doluluk

How it is used

A key figure in daily reports: rooms sold divided by rooms available, times 100. Managers look at it together with ADR (average daily rate) and RevPAR (revenue per available room). People often just say occupancy: "We're at 95% occupancy."

Example sentences

  1. Our occupancy rate in August was 97%, the highest in five years.

  2. If the occupancy rate stays below 60%, we'll close one of the restaurants in November.

Common collocations

  • high occupancy rate
  • average occupancy rate
  • occupancy rate forecast
  • boost the occupancy rate
  • availabilityWhether rooms, tables, seats or places on a tour are free to be booked on a particular date.
  • fully bookedHaving no free rooms, tables or places left for a particular date because everything has already been reserved.
  • high seasonThe busiest time of year for tourism, when demand is strongest and hotel and travel prices are at their highest.
  • room rateThe price a hotel charges for a room for one night, which can change with the season, room type and booking channel.
  • night auditA daily process, done late at night, of checking all the day's transactions, posting room charges and closing the hotel's business day.

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