FTE calculation for Hotel occupancy

Grace, for hotels you need to make some assumptions that may come from the business or operations plan: 1) FTE is based on expected number of employees, so your most accurate staff numbers would hopefully come from the client/owner. You may need to compile your own spreadsheet to summarize the different shifts and convert any part-time staff to the Full Time Equivalent. I believe the Reference Guide tells us to use the FTE number for the busiest shift, but we'll want to confirm that. 2) The Appendix 1 is useful for estimating occupancies in Core and Shell buildings or spaces where occupancy can easily be estimated based on industry averages for use by area. Hotels don't really work that way, except possibly the conference or meeting areas. For your hotel, find out from the management if they expect 1 person per room or "key", 1.5 per room/key, or whatever. If the hotel does have conference, meeting, or restaurant areas that serve the public in addition to the reserved guests, presumably the hotel management would have made assumptions of expected occupancy or annual averages for the number of public visitors. 3) I'd agree you can probably exclude bike racks for guests.