{"id":22447,"date":"2020-04-07T09:24:21","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T09:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/uncategorized\/alos-average-length-of-stay\/"},"modified":"2024-12-23T09:22:28","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T09:22:28","slug":"alos-average-length-of-stay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/alos-average-length-of-stay","title":{"rendered":"ALOS &#8211; Average Length of Stay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is the meaning \/ definition of Average <a class=\"glossary-only-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/los-length-of-stay\">Length of Stay<\/a> in the <a class=\"glossary-only-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/hospitality-industry\">hospitality industry<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>ALOS stands for Average Length of Stay. It is the average amount of days guests <a class=\"glossary-only-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/stay\">stay<\/a> at the <a class=\"glossary-only-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/hotel\">hotel<\/a> during a particular period.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Formula:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Average Length of Stay (ALOS) = Number of roomnights \/ Number of bookings<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>How to calculate:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Step 1<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Length of stay = date of discharge \u2013 date of admission<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">LOS of Guest A = [(4-4-2013) \u2013 (10-4-2013)] = 6<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">LOS of Guest B = [(2-4-2013) \u2013 (13-4-2013)] = 11<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">LOS of Guest C = [(15-4-2013) \u2013 (20-4-2013)] = 5<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">LOS of Guest D = [(22-4-2013) \u2013 (30-4-2013)] = 8<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Step 2<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Total Length of stay:\u00a06 + 11 + 5 + 8\u00a0= 30 days<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Step 3:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Average Length of Stay:\u00a0Total length of stay \/ Total number of reservations<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">30 \/ 4\u00a0= 7,5 days<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">ALOS can vary a lot. A typical hotel in Amsterdam city center has an ALOS of 1,8 while a Resort located in Bali can have a Alos of 8,5.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>See Also:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a class=\"glossary-only-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/minlos-minimum-length-of-stay\">MinLOS<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a class=\"glossary-only-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/maxlos-maximum-length-of-stay\">MaxLOS<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Synonyms:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ALOS<\/li>\n<li>Average Length of stay<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the meaning \/ definition of Average Length of  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a","category-glossary"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>ALOS - Average Length of Stay Definition \/Meaning<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Definition: ALOS stands for Average Length of Stay. 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