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How do hotels calculate the price of the rooms on a particular day?

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تم إضافة السؤال من قبل Hiba Samman , Electrical Engineer , Arabtech Jardaneh
تاريخ النشر: 2016/08/11
Magdy Abdel Aleem Abdel Aati Mayouf
من قبل Magdy Abdel Aleem Abdel Aati Mayouf , Professor in Hotel Marketing and Digital Marketing , Fayoum University

Room rate is the rate charged daily for a hotel room, the front office manager shall assign to each room category a rack rate which is a full price without discount that a hotel quotes as a room charge. In accordance, front office employees are expected to sell rooms at rack rate unless a guest qualifies for an alternative room rate (ex: corporate or commercial rate, group rate, promotional rate, incentive rate, family rate, package plan rate, complementary rate…).

While establishing room rates, management shall be careful about its operating costs, inflationary factors, and competition. Generally, there are three popular approaches to pricing rooms:

1.     Market condition approach

2.     Rule-of-thumb approach

3.     Hubbart formula approach

1. Market condition approach:

Under this very approach, management shall look at comparable hotels in the geographical market, see what they are charging for the same product, and "charge only what the market will accept". Some drawbacks of this approach are that it does not take into consideration the value of the property, and what a strong sales effort may accomplish.

 

2. Rule of thumb approach:

In this very approach, the rate of a room shall be $ 1 for each $ 1,000 of construction and furnishing cost per room, assuming a 70% occupancy rate. This approach, however, fails to take into consideration the inflation term, the contribution of other facilities and services towards the hotel’s desired profitability, and assumes a certain level of occupancy rate.

 

 

Example: Calculate the room rate using rule of thumb approach.

(A 200 room hotel, costing $14 million, should have a room rate of)

 

Answer:  = $14 million / 200 rooms / $1,000 = $70

 

3. Hubbart formula approach:

This very approach considers operating costs, desired profits, and expected number of rooms sold (i.e. demand). The procedure of calculating a room rate is as follows:

a)     Calculate the hotel’s desired profit by multiplying the desired return on investment (ROI) by the owner’s investment.

b)    Calculate pre-tax profits by dividing the desired profit by 1 minus hotel’s tax rate.

c)     Calculate fixed charges and management fees. This calculation includes estimating depreciation, interest expense, preperty taxes, insurance, amortization, building mortgage, land, rent, and management fees.

d)    Calculate undistributed operating expenses. This includes estimating administrative and general expenses, data processing expenses, human resourecs expenses, transportation expenses, marketing expenses, property operation and maintenance expenses, and energy costs.

e)     Estimate non-room operating department income or loss, that is, F&B department income or loss, telephone department income or loss …

f)      Calculate the required room department income which is the sum of pre-tax profits, fıxed charges and management fees, undistributed operating expenses, and other operating department losses less other department incomes.

g)     Determine the rooms department revenue which is the required room department income, plus other room department direct expenses of payroll and related expenses, plus other direct operating expenses.

h)    Calculate the average room rate by dividing rooms department revenue by the expected number of rooms to be sold.

 

Example: Calculate the room rate using Hubbart formula approach.

(A 100 room hotel, costing $14 million, desired return on investment (ROI) = 0.14, Taxes= 0.15,   Fixed charges and management fees = 600000, Undistributed operating expenses = 750000, non-room operating department income = 800000, other room department direct expenses = 1150000, expected occupancy percentage 70%).

 

Answer:

Desired profit = ROI (0.14) * Investment (14000000) = 1960000 

Pre-tax profits = Desired profit / (1- Taxes "0.15) = 1660000

Fixed charges and management fees = 600000

Undistributed operating expenses = 750000

Non-room operating department income = 800000

Other room department direct expenses = 1150000

Required room department income

= Pre-tax profits + fıxed charges and management fees + undistributed operating expenses - other department incomes

1660000 + 600000 + 750000 – 1800000 = 1216000

Rooms department revenue

= room department income + other room department direct expenses

= 1216000 + 1150000 = 2366000

Average room rate

= rooms department revenue /  ( Hotel number of rooms * expected occupancey percentage) =

= 2366000 / (100*365*0.70) = 92.6

 

 

Yvonne Marie  Pajuyo
من قبل Yvonne Marie Pajuyo , OIC - Supervisor/Account Specialist , Teamspan Asia

The basic formula to calculate price of the rooms on a particular day is by Revenue per Available Room (RevPAR). The basic aspects considered are room rates and occupancy period.

Revenue per Available Room (RevPAR) is the popular concept of hotel industry. The best concept on the basis of room usability and accordingly charges are applied. The calculation takes place on the basis of per-room. A firm with a higher RevPAR can loose money on the basis of less room hiring basis.

 

Sherif Waly
من قبل Sherif Waly , General Manager , Confidential

The price(rate) of hotel room is defined by the hotel occupancy and earlier hotel approved budget and  the market competitive rate

Achouak Machrah
من قبل Achouak Machrah , Nestle

  • Rev-par= (Total room revenue adding taxes and reducing discount)/(Available rooms in the same period)
  • Rev-par= Average Daily Room Rate X Occupancy rate

مستخدم محذوف‎
من قبل مستخدم محذوف‎

The price(rate) of hotel room is defined by the hotel occupancy

Mario Scotto
من قبل Mario Scotto , President , Innovare Hotel Management

The hotel management have to take a look at the market condition ( compset )compare hotels in the same geographical area and check what they are offering for the same hotel category services.

Muneer Almaskeen
من قبل Muneer Almaskeen , Commercial Manager for Middle East & North Africa (MENA) , HYUNDAI ELECTRIC & ENERGY SYSTEMS CO. LTD.

The best way to calculate price of the rooms on a particular day is by Revenue per Available Room (RevPAR). In addition, checking the room rates for other same level hotels' competitors.

ibrahim abdel fattah
من قبل ibrahim abdel fattah , Hotel General Manager , Grand Circle & overseas adventure travel

The best way to calculate manpower to a particular hotel is as follows:

eg. for 100 rooms, 

 If in the larger four & five star hotels (along with the heritage hotels) employ on an average 162 people per 100 rooms, compared to 122 in the One, Two & Three Star Hotels and 58 in the unorganized sector. 

In average for 100 rooms 4*, 5* hotels not more than 1.6 in one room and in 1*, 2*, 3* hotels 1.2 in one particular room. this is in almost all standard.

 

 

Khaled Mirza
من قبل Khaled Mirza , General Manager , Intra Group -Real-Estate and Hotel Investments

Based on approved budget, the price of the hotel room is consisting of room Cost, desired profit considering hote forecasted occupancy and market share

one of the good tools is revenue management system it helps to develop effective pricing straegies, customer segments , ensure demand forecasting in local market and staying a ware of competitor strategies.

Aleem Zainulabdin
من قبل Aleem Zainulabdin , Financial Controller , Makkah Hilton Hotel & Towers

Rate for the room is depend on the market competitive rate and on season, based on budget and previous history.

noel chukwuma
من قبل noel chukwuma , waiter , Makings international incoprorated

The management shall have to take a look at the market condition, compare hotels in the same geographical area and see what theyre charging for the same services and charge only what the customers will accept. though their maybe setbacks to this aproach as it doesnt take into consideration the value of the property.

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