After your professor runs and publishes a period, you have access to a full breakdown of what actually happened. This is where learning compounds.
Results live in two places:
| Page | What's there |
|---|---|
Dashboard / Results (/hotel/dashboard) |
The headline summary — P&L, executive recap |
Daily Results (/hotel/results) |
The detailed daily breakdown, plus OTB (on-the-books) for upcoming months |
6.1 The P&L Summary
Your headline page is the P&L Summary — a full profit & loss for the published period.
The P&L summary. Read top-to-bottom — revenue, then costs, then profit.
The structure
| Section | What's in it |
|---|---|
| Revenue | Room revenue (split by segment + room type) + amenity revenue |
| Variable costs | Distribution channel commissions, marketing costs, walk-cost penalties |
| Operating costs | Maintenance, rooms cost, other OpEx, amenity OpEx, brand / loyalty fees |
| Financial items | Loan interest, revolver interest (if used), reserve contributions |
| Bottom line | Operating profit, then Pre-tax profit |
What to look for, in order
- Total revenue — did you hit your forecast? If under, was it occupancy (volume) or ADR (price)?
- Channel costs — what % of revenue went to commissions? If it's climbing, your OTA mix is heavy.
- Marketing — did the campaigns pay for themselves? You won't always know immediately — Baseline campaigns build over time.
- Operating profit — your headline number. This is what counts toward your competitive ranking.
- Pre-tax profit — after financial items (interest, reserve). The number that drives your cash position.
6.2 Daily Breakdown — the granular view
The Closed Month tab on Daily Results shows every day of the period, side by side.
Every day, every column. The detail view.
Columns (left to right):
| Column | What it tells you |
|---|---|
| Date / DOW | The day |
| Available rooms | What you offered |
| Rooms sold | What you sold (standard + premium separately) |
| Occupancy | Sold ÷ available, capped at 100% |
| Overbooked rooms | If you sold more than you had (yes, this can happen), shown separately |
| ADR | Average rate paid that day, weighted across segments |
| RevPAR | Revenue per available room |
| Revenue | Total room revenue that day |
| By-segment columns | If your sim shows them — retail, AP, corporate, etc. |
The four diagnostic questions
For each day where something looked off, ask:
- Did I sell out? (occupancy = 100%) → I underpriced. Estimate how much I left on the table.
- Did I overbook? → I priced much too low, or I held back too little inventory. Walk-cost penalties show up on the P&L.
- Did I sit half-empty? (occupancy < 50%) → I overpriced or my product is too weak for the market that day.
- Did my ADR collapse? → Too many low-segment bookings (AP / corporate) vs higher-paying retail. Maybe I should have priced retail higher to push the mix up.
💡 The diagnostic happens at the day level, not the month level. A month with 75% occupancy could be 30 days of 75% or 15 days at 100% and 15 days at 50% — wildly different stories. Always drill in.
6.3 OTB — forward visibility
The OTB (On-The-Books) tab shows you bookings already on the books for future months — meaning corporate contracts, group blocks, and advance-purchase bookings that have been confirmed but not yet "stayed."
OTB for upcoming months. Useful for forward planning.
This matters for two reasons:
- Capacity planning — if you already have 200 OTB rooms for a Friday in 3 months, you can't sell those rooms again on the open market. The Forecast tab on Decisions surfaces these OTB numbers next to your forecast cells; seeing the same numbers here helps you sanity-check your forecasts.
- Strategy validation — large OTB means your corporate / group strategy is working. Empty OTB means you should consider bidding more aggressively on RFPs.
6.4 Month in Progress (pace mode only)
If your simulation uses pace mode, there's a third tab: Month in Progress.
Month in Progress shows partially-run periods with the days that have closed so far.
This tab is identical to the Month in Progress view on the Decisions page (covered in Chapter 7) — same view, surfaced in both places for convenience.
6.5 Cross-period analysis
The most powerful learning comes from looking at multiple periods side by side. The simulator doesn't have an automatic multi-period comparison tool for students, but you can:
- Take screenshots of each period's P&L summary
- Track your operating profit, occupancy, and ADR in a spreadsheet you maintain yourself
- Watch the trends — operating profit climbing? Occupancy slipping? ADR stalling?
Trends matter more than any single period.
What to do with what you learn
Reading results without acting on them is wasted time. Before you close the Results tab, write yourself one note: "Next period I will ___."
Examples:
- "Next period I will price weekends 10% higher — I sold out every Friday."
- "Next period I will activate one OTA — my channel mix is too narrow."
- "Next period I will upgrade my F&B amenity — service score is dragging."
- "Next period I will not run that one-shot promo — payback was negative."
Pin that note somewhere. Read it when the next period opens.
Next
→ Chapter 7: Month in Progress (pace mode) — skip if your sim doesn't use pace mode