Hotel guests who spend beyond the room: what do they have in common?
What the answer looks like
Illustrative output on sample data
Illustrative example: how Lexi answers this for a wine country resort with 140 rooms. It compares guests who spent over $300 per stay beyond the room with all other guests, using the PMS and outlet POS for the past 12 months.
- High spenders: 28% of guests, 61% of non-room revenue
- 72% booked two or more nights, against 41% of other guests
- 64% booked direct, against 38%
- Most live within a three-hour drive
What the data shows
High spenders stay longer, book direct and come from nearby cities.
What it means
Short stays booked through online travel agencies rarely include dining or tastings. Longer direct stays almost always do.
What to do
Offer a two-night direct package with a tasting and dinner, and use high spenders as a lookalike seed in Meta.
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Why it matters
Guests who spend beyond the room rate drive a large share of hotel profit, but few hotels know what they have in common. Profiling them by trip type, booking pattern and origin shows who to attract more of and how to shape packages around them.
Frequently asked questions
Which hotel guests spend the most outside the room?
It varies by property, but longer stays, direct bookings and leisure trips often go with higher spend on dining, spa and activities. Compare your high spenders with other guests on trip length, channel, party and origin to find your own pattern.
How do hotels attract more high-spending guests?
Build packages around what high spenders already buy, promote them on your own booking channel, and target guests who resemble them, for example with a lookalike audience. Focus marketing on the markets and trip types they come from.
What counts as ancillary spend for a hotel?
Anything beyond the room rate: restaurant and bar spend, spa treatments, activities, tours, parking and retail. Linking each charge to the guest's stay shows the full value of each guest and which extras matter most.