VACATION RENTAL PERFORMANCE GUIDE
Understand what ADR, occupancy and RevPAR are actually telling you.
Use three connected metrics to distinguish the rate you achieved, the inventory you sold and the revenue produced by every available night—then place those results beside the costs of running the property.
DIRECT ANSWER
How are ADR, occupancy and RevPAR connected?
ADR measures the revenue earned per booked night. Occupancy measures the share of available nights that sold. RevPAR combines rate and availability by measuring revenue per available night. Read together, they show whether performance came from price, volume or both. None of them measures profit on its own.
THE THREE FORMULAS
Use the same period and revenue definition for every calculation.
ADR
Rental revenue ÷ booked nights
The average revenue earned for each night that was sold.
Occupancy
Booked nights ÷ available nights × 100
The share of sellable inventory that was booked during the period.
RevPAR
Rental revenue ÷ available nights
The average revenue generated by every available night, whether booked or not.
Consistency matters more than complicated math. Decide whether your rental revenue includes or excludes cleaning fees, taxes and channel fees, then apply the same definition across every property and reporting period.
FREE PERFORMANCE CALCULATOR
Calculate ADR, occupancy and RevPAR.
Use one property or a portfolio for one consistent period. This educational calculator does not store or transmit the values you enter.
WORKED EXAMPLE
One property, 30 available nights and 18 booked nights.
Assume the property records 3,600 in rental revenue for the month. ADR is 3,600 ÷ 18, or 200. Occupancy is 18 ÷ 30, or 60%. RevPAR is 3,600 ÷ 30, or 120. You can confirm the result another way: ADR × occupancy equals RevPAR, so 200 × 60% also equals 120.
READ THE METRICS TOGETHER
A higher number is only useful when you understand what changed.
Occupancy rises while ADR falls
You sold more nights at a lower average rate. Check whether total revenue and RevPAR improved before calling it a success.
ADR rises while occupancy falls
You earned more per sold night but sold fewer nights. RevPAR shows whether the rate increase compensated for the lost volume.
RevPAR rises
Your available inventory generated more rental revenue. Then review costs to determine whether profitability also improved.
AVAILABLE INVENTORY
Define which nights were genuinely sellable.
Avrenor Stays calculates available nights from active properties during the reporting period and removes confirmed out-of-order or out-of-service nights. Booked nights come from confirmed reservations. Owner holds and other blocked dates should be handled consistently with your reporting policy so comparisons remain meaningful.
RevPAR is not profit. It measures rental revenue against available inventory. Review rent, cleaner pay, property expenses and other operating costs before drawing a profitability conclusion.
FROM METRIC TO OPERATION
Connect the result to the work that created it.
Performance metrics are most useful when the operator can move from a portfolio result to the reservations, properties and operating costs behind it. Avrenor Stays keeps reporting alongside the daily operation instead of treating it as an isolated dashboard.
SEE THE RESULT IN CONTEXT
Track portfolio performance beside the operation behind it.
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