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How many room nights do you need?
Plan your revenue, find your break-even occupancy, and check what an offer needs to earn its keep.
For hotels, guesthouses and vacation rentals in Placencia and across Belize. Treat each independently bookable unit as one room. One room night means one unit sold for one night.
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Hypothetical example, not a forecast or a typical Belize property. Replace these figures with your own.
Your break-even point
- Available room nights
- 180
- Contribution per occupied night
- BZD 90.00
- Room nights to cover fixed costs
- 89
- Break-even occupancy
- 49.4%
At least 89 sold room nights cover the fixed costs entered. Room nights are rounded up before occupancy is calculated.
Three occupancy scenarios
| Measure | Conservative | Expected | Stronger |
|---|---|---|---|
| Occupancy | 25% | 40% | 60% |
| Sold room nights | 45 | 72 | 108 |
| Room revenue | BZD 9,000.00 | BZD 14,400.00 | BZD 21,600.00 |
| Booking fees | BZD 1,350.00 | BZD 2,160.00 | BZD 3,240.00 |
| Variable costs | BZD 3,600.00 | BZD 5,760.00 | BZD 8,640.00 |
| Contribution before fixed costs | BZD 4,050.00 | BZD 6,480.00 | BZD 9,720.00 |
| Remaining after entered costs | BZD -3,950.00 | BZD -1,520.00 | BZD 1,720.00 |
Scenario nights may be fractional because occupancy is an estimate. Remaining balance is not net profit: only entered costs are included. Financing, depreciation, income tax and other omitted expenses are excluded.
Does the offer earn its keep?
- Offer nightly rate
- BZD 160.00
- Offer contribution per night
- BZD 56.00
- Nights to match expected balance
- 116
- Required offer occupancy
- 64.4%
To match the expected scenario’s balance after the additional BZD 0.00 campaign cost, sell 116 room nights, compared with 72 in your expected scenario.
This is within the capacity entered. Whether demand can fill those nights remains a separate question.
60.7% more room nights produce the same contribution before extra campaign cost. This percentage excludes whole-night rounding.
Offer break-even, including fixed and campaign costs: 143 room nights.
Fee-only channel comparison at your original rate: BZD 120.00 per direct night before direct booking/payment costs, versus BZD 90.00 with the entered booking fees. Direct bookings are not automatically free to acquire.
How the planner works
Contribution per night = nightly rate × (1 − booking fee percentage) − variable cost per night. Break-even nights = fixed costs ÷ contribution, rounded up. Offer target nights = (expected nights × current contribution + extra campaign cost) ÷ offer contribution, rounded up. Required occupancy = required nights ÷ available room nights × 100.
This is a single-rate, single-cost model for the period you choose. It does not model different room categories, length-of-stay restrictions, channel demand or changing costs. Include owner pay and other costs where relevant to your planning target.
Break-even method: U.S. Small Business Administration · Currency reference: Central Bank of Belize · BTB historical occupancy context
Planning tool by Visit Placencia. Use results with your own records and cost assumptions. No account, enquiry submission or financial-data upload is required.