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Segment mix per property: corporate, group and leisure in one view

How a hotel group's commercial team builds room-night mix per property by segment from the property management export, sets each property's expected mix from its own comparable set, and lists the properties whose corporate or group share has drifted from where properties like them sit, without ever comparing a resort to an airport hotel.

The short answerRoom-night mix per property by segment, corporate, group, leisure and contract, comes from the property management export with the segment on every reservation. Each property's expected mix is the median across its comparable set, properties of the same type and market, from the group's own portfolio. A property whose corporate share sits well below its comparables has a sales gap; one whose group share has fallen for three quarters has a trend. The list ranks both by room nights at stake.

A regional director looks at RevPAR by property and knows which hotels are behind. What RevPAR does not say is whether a hotel is behind because it has too little corporate business for a hotel of its kind, or because a group account it relied on stopped coming. The reservation export says both. This guide sets out segment mix per property, the comparable set, and the list.

The measure

Per property, per quarter:

Segment share = room nights in the segment ÷ total room nights

For each segment in a short group-wide list: corporate negotiated, corporate transient, group, leisure, contract, other.

And the assertion:

total room nights = Σ segments

A reservation with no segment or an unmapped rate code fails it and is listed.

The rows you need

  • Reservations: property, arrival date, nights, segment or rate code, revenue.
  • Property master: property, type, market, size, comparable set.
  • Rate code mapping: rate code to segment.

Property and account identifiers only.

The comparable set

From the property master: same type, same market tier, similar size. Four to twelve properties. The expected mix is the median share per segment across the set, computed each quarter from the group's own data. A property is compared to its set, and only its set.

A worked list

Property Set Corporate share Set median Gap in nights Group share trend
P-114 City full-service, tier 2 22% 38% 4,100 Flat
P-207 Airport select 41% 44% 600 −6 pts over 3 qtrs
P-088 Resort 4% 5% 200 +2 pts

Property P-114 has a corporate sales gap worth four thousand room nights a quarter against hotels like it. Property P-207 has a small corporate gap and a group business decline that has run for three quarters, which is an account question, not a mix question. Property P-088 is a resort and is doing what resorts do.

Revenue beside mix

Property Corporate nights Corporate revenue Rate
P-114 2,900 $410,000 $141
Set median $158

Below its set on share and on rate. Two findings, both real, computed separately.

Where it goes wrong

Compared across types. The resort has a corporate gap against the city hotels. It does not.

Rate codes unmapped. Every property maps codes its own way; the group-wide list is the fix, and the failed assertion lists the rest.

Mix read as revenue. Share held, rate lost, nobody notices. Report both.

Set too small. Two properties are not a norm. State the set size and flag sets under four.

Every quarter, per property against its set

Mapped once, the reservation export and the property master produce the mix, the set medians, the gaps and the trends every quarter. Covirage builds this from the exports as they are. The hospitality page describes the setup, and the property penetration guide covers the account-level view that explains a group or corporate decline.

Questions people ask

What is a comparable set?

Properties of the same type, market and size within the group's own portfolio: city-centre full-service hotels in secondary markets, say. A resort is never compared to an airport hotel. The set is stated on each property's line.

Where does the segment come from?

The market segment or rate code on each reservation in the property management system, mapped to a short list of segments the group uses everywhere. The mapping is written once and applied to every property's export.

Is mix the same as revenue?

No. Mix is room nights by segment. Revenue by segment is reported beside it, because a property can hold its corporate share and lose its corporate rate. Both are computed; neither is derived from the other.