Compare your occupancy with official data: INE Spain, INE Portugal, ISTAT and ELSTAT, and what occupancy, ADR and RevPAR mean (2026)

Updated: 10 November 2026

Knowing whether your hotel is doing well is easier when you compare yourself with official figures for your area. But you have to compare like with like: room or bed-place occupancy, ADR, RevPAR. This guide explains the three figures using the official definitions of Spain's INE and Eurostat, lists the latest published figures we could read (checked on 10 November 2026) and tells you where to look for your own province or region.

The short answer

The essentials:

Room occupancy = rooms sold / rooms available x 100. Spain's INE defines it as the ratio between the daily average of rooms occupied in the month and the total rooms available.
ADR (average daily rate) = room revenue / rooms occupied. INE: average daily revenue «per occupied room».
RevPAR = room revenue / rooms available. INE: average daily revenue «per available room». It equals ADR x occupancy.
INE Spain's headline figure is bed-place occupancy, not room occupancy: don't compare it with your room occupancy.
Latest Spanish figures we read (August 2026, provisional): bed-place occupancy 76.1%, ADR EUR 166.9 and RevPAR EUR 133.1.

How to calculate your three figures (example)

An example with made-up numbers, for a 30-day month:

A 20-room hotel open all month: 20 x 30 = 600 available room-nights.
You sold 420 room-nights: occupancy = 420 / 600 = 70%.
Room revenue for the month: EUR 50,400. ADR = 50,400 / 420 = EUR 120.
RevPAR = 50,400 / 600 = EUR 84 (or 120 x 70% = 84).
Use room revenue only: INE Portugal uses «proveitos de aposento» (accommodation revenue). We could not confirm whether INE Spain's ADR includes VAT or breakfast, so compare with care.
If you close for some days, take those nights out of the available total: Eurostat calculates occupancy net of closures.

Spain: INE (Hotel Tourism Short-Term Trends)

INE publishes the Hotel Occupancy Survey every month, with provisional data 23 days after the reference month:

August 2026 (release of 22 September 2026): bed-place occupancy 76.1% (+1.1%), weekend 76.9%, ADR EUR 166.9 (+7.3%) and RevPAR EUR 133.1 (+7.0%).
Estepona was the tourist point with the highest ADR (EUR 418.0) and RevPAR (EUR 359.4).
Figures by region, province, tourist zone and tourist point are in the annex tables and in INEbase.
Cádiz, Seville and Huelva: not in the release text, and we could not open the annex; their figures are not confirmed in this guide.
More on the mandatory survey: /spain-ine-tourism-occupancy-survey-hotel-2026.

Portugal: INE (Atividade Turística)

INE Portugal publishes occupancy, ADR and RevPAR every month by NUTS region, including the Algarve:

September 2026 (published 30 October 2026): bed occupancy 56.5%, room occupancy 69.3%, RevPAR EUR 102.0 (+2.8%) and ADR EUR 147.3 (+3.3%).
Algarve: ADR EUR 155.6. Its RevPAR and occupancy only appear in a chart: not confirmed.
Definitions: RevPAR = accommodation revenue / rooms available; ADR = accommodation revenue / rooms occupied.
More on Portugal's mandatory survey: /portugal-ine-guest-stay-survey-iphh-local-accommodation-2026.

Italy and Greece: ISTAT and ELSTAT

Here official statistics focus on arrivals, nights and occupancy, with no ADR or RevPAR in what we read:

ISTAT: arrivals (arrivi), nights (presenze), average stay (presenze / arrivi) and, for hotels, room occupancy (occupied room-days / available room-days). Data down to municipality level in I.Stat.
ISTAT, Q3 2025: 216,730,673 nights (+2.5%). Guide: /italy-istat-tourism-statistics-arrivals-nights-2026.
ELSTAT, year 2025 (release of 22 July 2026): 38,189,833 arrivals, 156,347,283 nights and 50.7% bed-place occupancy in hotels. Guide: /greece-elstat-monthly-accommodation-survey-xenios-zeus-2026.

What to compare so you don't fool yourself

Before drawing conclusions:

Same indicator: rooms with rooms, bed places with bed places.
Same area and type: your province, zone or tourist point and your category beat the national average.
Same month and same status: INE Spain data stay provisional for 13 months.
Eurostat (tour_occ tables) lets you compare countries and regions; its bed-place occupancy can exceed 100% because extra beds are excluded.
Watch RevPAR: raising prices while losing a lot of occupancy can leave it flat or worse.

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Frequently asked questions

What is RevPAR?

Revenue per available room: room revenue divided by all rooms available, sold or not. INE Spain defines it as average daily revenue per available room.

What is the difference between ADR and RevPAR?

ADR divides revenue by occupied rooms; RevPAR by available rooms. RevPAR = ADR x occupancy.

Why doesn't my occupancy match INE's?

INE Spain's headline is bed-place occupancy while yours is usually room occupancy, and the national average mixes categories and areas. Compare with your province or zone in INEbase.

Do ISTAT or ELSTAT publish ADR and RevPAR?

Not in the official documents we read: they publish arrivals, nights and occupancy rates.

Where can I compare countries?

Eurostat's tour_occ tables, which use common definitions such as net occupancy rate of bedrooms and bed places.

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