The report includes monthly estimates of the hotel occupancy rate (including the number of rooms-nights occupied and the number of rooms-nights available), as well as the average rates for renting a room, broken down between hotels in the San Juan Metropolitan Area and hotels outside the Metropolitan Area. These estimates come from the Tourism Company's Daily Survey. This Survey collects a non-probabilistic sample of hotels in the Company's Monthly Survey every business day. For more information on the Monthly Survey, see the PRTC Monthly Statistic Report. The Daily Survey sample includes 33 of the largest hotels endorsed by the Tourism Company, which represent 65 percent of the rooms. The Daily Survey allows the Company to monitor business conditions in hotels in a more timely and frequent manner, for example, including the ability to measure business conditions over long weekends. The data in this report are published to provide more timely estimates than can be obtained from the PRTC Monthly Statistic Report. For this purpose, they are presented on a monthly basis. However, the data are not comparable with the results of the PRTC Monthly Statistic Report: historically, the occupancy rate and the average rates of the Daily Survey are higher than the corresponding estimates of the Monthly Survey.
1) Produce more timely estimates of the number of guest registrations, the occupancy rate and the rates charged at hotels endorsed by the Tourism Company2) Count for the agency's internal analysis with more frequent (daily) estimates of the number of guest registrations, the occupancy rate and the prices charged at hotels endorsed by the Tourism Company.