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RevPAR calculator
RevPAR is revenue per available room: room revenue divided by available room nights, or ADR multiplied by occupancy. Enter your figures below to see RevPAR, TRevPAR and what OTA commission is quietly taking out of it.
Your figures
Figures stay in your browser — nothing is sent anywhere. Defaults show a 40-room independent hotel over a 30-night month.
Results
- RevPAR
- £84.96
- Room revenue
- £101,952
- TRevPAR
- £123.29
- Commission cost
- £6,066
- RevPAR after commission
- £79.90
- Gain from shifting 10 points to direct
- £1.44 RevPAR
Room revenue ÷ available room nights
864 of 1200 room nights sold
All revenue ÷ available room nights
OTA share × commission rate
The number your P&L actually feels
Same rate, same occupancy — purely channel mix
Lift RevPAR without cutting rate
We look at channel mix, brand search defence, length of stay and shoulder-date pricing before anyone touches your rate card.
Reading RevPAR without misleading yourself
RevPAR is the most quoted hotel metric and the easiest one to game. Because it uses gross room revenue, a month filled through OTAs at 17% commission reports exactly the same RevPAR as a month filled direct — while earning materially less. Run the commission line in the calculator above and the gap between headline and net RevPAR is usually the single largest recoverable number in an independent hotel's accounts.
The second trap is chasing occupancy. Dropping rate to fill the last six rooms lifts occupancy visibly, dilutes ADR quietly, and often leaves RevPAR flat while adding housekeeping, breakfast and wear cost to every one of those rooms. GOPPAR — profit per available room — is what tells you whether the trade was worth making, and it is the measure we report against for revenue clients.
Finally, judge RevPAR relatively. Your own prior year, the same weekdays, and a comparable local set matter far more than a national average. Growth in RevPAR is only good news once you know whether it came from rate, from occupancy, or from moving guests off commissioned channels.
RevPAR FAQs
- What is RevPAR?
- RevPAR stands for revenue per available room. It is total room revenue divided by the number of available rooms for the same period, and it captures rate and occupancy in a single figure — which is why it is the headline measure of a hotel's commercial performance.
- How do you calculate RevPAR?
- Two ways give the same answer: room revenue divided by available room nights, or ADR multiplied by occupancy. A 40-room hotel at 72% occupancy and £118 ADR has a RevPAR of £84.96 — and £101,952 of room revenue over a 30-night month.
- What is the difference between RevPAR and ADR?
- ADR (average daily rate) is revenue divided by rooms actually sold, so it only describes the price you achieved. RevPAR divides by rooms available, so empty rooms drag it down. A hotel can raise ADR and still lose RevPAR if occupancy falls further than rate rose.
- What is a good RevPAR for an independent hotel?
- There is no universal figure — RevPAR is only meaningful against your own competitive set, your own prior year and your own cost base. The useful test is your RevPAR index against comparable local properties, and whether your RevPAR growth is coming from rate, occupancy or channel mix.
- What are TRevPAR and GOPPAR?
- TRevPAR is total revenue per available room, including food and beverage, spa, events and parking — the right measure for hotels with a strong restaurant or wedding trade. GOPPAR is gross operating profit per available room, which strips out commission and operating cost and is the closest single number to what the business actually earns.
- How can a hotel increase RevPAR without discounting?
- Shift mix before touching rate: recover bookings from commissioned channels to direct, defend your brand search, lengthen average stay with two- and three-night packages, and price shoulder dates against real demand rather than a flat seasonal rate. Discounting raises occupancy but usually lowers RevPAR and always lowers GOPPAR.
- Does OTA commission affect RevPAR?
- Not directly — RevPAR is usually calculated on gross room revenue, so a heavily commissioned month can look identical to a direct one. That is exactly why GOPPAR matters: two hotels with the same RevPAR can be 12 to 18 percentage points apart on profit purely on channel mix.
Where to go next
Where hotels take this next
RevPAR tells you there is a gap. These pages cover closing it.
- Hotel revenue management agency
Rate strategy, channel mix and shoulder-date pricing run against RevPAR and GOPPAR targets.
- Guide: hotel revenue management tools and KPIs
The metrics, systems and reporting rhythm independents actually need.
- Guide: reducing hotel OTA commission
How to move commissioned bookings to direct without losing the volume.