Board briefings
Occupancy paper for directors who meet four times a year
A briefing pack is not a guest brochure and not a reprint of the night audit. It is the occupied nights, empty nights, and mix that a hotel-group board can sit with in an hour.
What goes in the main pages
Empty-night clusters that repeated — dark Mondays, a wing counted as available while closed, a cancelled wedding that never left the occupancy column. Mix shifts that moved rooms money while occupancy looked stable. The houses that carried the estate, named plainly.
Three questions for management sit on the last page. The daily flash, if anyone still wants it, is an appendix. Priya Nair writes the pack from the occupancy file Eleanor and Marcus have already read; we will not produce a briefing from a slide deck that has no extracts behind it.
Timing
Five to eight working days before the sitting, provided the period has closed and the extracts have arrived. A four-sitting retainer is possible when the same estate wants the same shape of paper each quarter. See the board briefing pack for fees.
What a briefing is not
It is not a promise that occupancy will rise. It is not a guest-facing occupancy story for a website. It is not a substitute for the general manager’s weekly meeting. If you need the underlying occupancy reading first, start with a group review.