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- Revenue
Overbooking a 30-room motel loses money unless more than 3.9% of bookings vanish on arrival day
We modeled a sold-out night at a 30-room motel with loss rates from 119,390 real bookings. One extra booking pays only above a 3.9% arrival-day loss.
- Rules & Law
For a motel, ADA website compliance starts with what the booking page says about accessible rooms
ADA website compliance for a hotel or motel: what 28 CFR 36.302(e) says your booking page and OTA listings must show, and where WCAG fits in.
- Revenue
A direct booking website pays for itself at about 3 room nights a month for a small motel
How many room nights a month must move from OTAs to a direct booking website to cover a $54 site and booking engine, at $113 a night and 15% commission.
- Rules & Law
A 30-room motel needs 5 accessible guest rooms under the ADA, and one of them has to do double duty
How many ADA compliant hotel rooms a 20 to 80 room motel needs, what goes in them and the booking rule, read from the 2010 ADA Standards.
- Data
The US had 55,895 hotel and motel establishments with paid staff in 2023, and 46% had fewer than 10 employees
How many hotels are in the US? The Census counted 55,895 hotel and motel establishments with paid staff in 2023, and 45.8% had fewer than 10 employees.