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Hotel Operations Report Template for a Weekly Property Review

A source-grounded weekly hotel report for occupancy, rate, arrivals, departures, maintenance exceptions, guest feedback, and the decisions that need an owner.

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A useful hotel operations report is not a wall of property metrics. It is a short, trustworthy read of what changed at the property and what needs an owner before the next busy arrival window.

The data usually exists: a property-management export, a revenue report, arrivals and departures, maintenance notes, and guest feedback. The recurring burden is assembling those sources into the same view every week without flattening a documented exception into an invented story.

Use one page for the operating read

Keep the main report focused:

  1. Demand and rate: occupancy, ADR, and RevPAR only when those fields are provided by an approved source, with a consistent comparison period.
  2. Arrival and departure load: peak days, group blocks, VIP or special-request flags supplied by the property, and operational pinch points.
  3. Revenue mix: rooms, food and beverage, events, or other categories when the source export separates them.
  4. Maintenance exceptions: open items affecting rooms, public space, safety, or guest experience, with owner and age where supplied.
  5. Guest themes: recurring positive or negative themes from the feedback the team selects, with representative references rather than fabricated sentiment scores.
  6. Decisions and actions: the few items management needs to approve, investigate, or assign.

Map every section to a source

Report section Approved source Freshness rule Do not infer
Occupancy, ADR, RevPAR PMS or revenue export Through report cutoff Missing rates or segmentation
Arrivals, departures, groups Arrival/departure report Current as of run time Availability or room readiness
Maintenance exceptions Work-order export or selected notes Open items at cutoff Root cause not in the notes
Guest feedback themes Reviews or surveys the team provides New items in period Representativeness beyond the sample
Department commentary Manager notes Submitted by cutoff A cause the manager did not document

If two sources disagree, the report should show the conflict. Quietly choosing one produces a cleaner slide and a worse operating decision.

A prompt for the weekly property report

Prepare our weekly hotel operations report from the PMS export, arrivals and departures, work-order file, selected guest feedback, and manager notes I provide. Show occupancy, ADR, and RevPAR exactly as supplied and compare them with the period I name. Flag peak arrival days, group or special-request exceptions, open maintenance items by age and impact, and repeated guest themes with references. End with the decisions and actions that need an owner. Never invent a number, availability status, guest fact, or cause. Return a one-page summary and supporting workbook privately for review.

The first run should be reconciled with each source. Once the metric definitions and cutoff are stable, schedule the same task weekly. Deck reads the approved files or enabled read-only context and returns the draft to the owner's inbox. Management corrects the commentary and decides what to share.

Connect the report to the operating inbox

The same assistant can help with the messages behind the exceptions. Forward a vendor delay, a group inquiry, or a guest request and ask for a private summary or draft. Deck never needs access to the whole hotel mailbox; it sees the threads and attachments the team sends or CCs.

The hospitality email playbook covers that daily workflow. For contact-form qualification, Mailroom can use a stable form marker to flag high-fit inbound and return a draft to the property owner.

Scale from one property to a group

Enterprise hospitality teams can link multiple management email addresses to one assistant and give it an address on their own domain instead of @agent.hellodeck.ai. That lets property operations, group sales, and leadership use a recognizable internal handoff while keeping the results private to the linked users.

For a broader recurring-deck pattern, see business reporting automation. The hotel version stays disciplined by keeping every metric and explanation attached to an approved source.

Get your Deck assistant and test the report on one week of reconciled property data.