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Sports
Golf and sports
such as tennis, sur
ng, swimming, mountain climbing, skiing, hunting,
fishing, hiking,
prospecting, or any other outdoor sports activity
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require properly publicized facilities and services.
Guides, equipment, charter boats, and other services needed to enjoy these sports must be readily
available at fair prices. Convenience and accessibility are key factors in this type of entertainment.
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MATCHING SUPPLY WITH DEMAND
Providing an ample tourism supply to meet anticipated demand is a challenge for the tourism planner
or manager. Supply functions are always constrained by demand. The following formula can be used to
calculate the number of hotel rooms (or other types of lodging) required:
No
:
tourists
%Staying in hotels
Average stay
Room demand
=
night
ð
100% occupancy
Þ¼
365
Average number of persons per room
T
P
L
R ¼
S
N
where
R ¼ room demand per night, at 100 percent occupancy
T ¼ number of tourists
P
¼
percentage staying in hotels
L
¼
average length of stay
S
¼
number of days per year open for business
N
¼
average number of persons per room (obtained from hoteliers); total number of guest
nights divided by the number of guests, during any period of time
O
¼
hotel occupancy used for estimating; for 70 percent occupancy, divide number of rooms
needed at 100 percent occupancy by 70 percent
Illustration of application of the formula:
T
¼
1,560,000 visitors
P
¼
98% staying in hotels
L
¼
9 days
S
¼
365 days per year open for business
N
¼
1.69 persons per room
O
¼
70% occupancy
¼
ð
1
;
560
;
000
0
:
98
9
Þ
¼
ð
13
;
759
;
200
Þ
R
¼
22
;
306 (rooms needed at 100%
occupancy)
ð365 1:69Þ
ð616:85Þ
22
;
306
¼
(as more rooms will be needed at 70% occupancy than at 100%)
0
:
70
¼
31,866 rooms needed
The fact that more rooms will be needed at 70 percent occupancy than at 100 percent occupancy
may be confusing to some
although mathematically it is clear that dividing 22,306 by 1.0 will result
in a smaller number than when 22,306 is divided by 0.70. The situation that creates this is that, if
rooms are not full (as in 70 percent occupancy), a greater number of rooms will be required to house a
given number of guests (such as 22,306). However, while they might like to, hotels cannot afford to
build room numbers to a level that assumes 100 percent occupancy, since this is unrealistic, given that
worldwide hotel occupancy
uctuates around 65 percent.
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