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Average Length Of Stay

Meaning

ALOS, an initialism used to indicate average length of stay across all room nights is a crucial component for examining other hotel metrics in order to evaluate your hotels performance.

If this calculation results to your hotel accommodating more short stays than it typically does, you should employ techniques like providing a better rate on average for stays that extends past two nights.

How do you calculate ALOS?

The formula for ALOS:

Total occupied rooms nights / Number of bookings

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