Room occupancy
How occupancy differs from readiness, what each of its values means, and why they are two separate scales.
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Room occupancy is the second scale, independent of readiness. It answers whether there is a guest in the room, not whether the next one can be let in.
Two scales are needed because their states combine freely. A room can be occupied and blocked at once: the guest is living there and the tap does not work. It can be free and not ready. It can be free and ready — which is the room that can be sold today.
Occupancy is derived from the stays attached to the room. A guest who has not checked out outranks the calendar’s arithmetic: by the dates the stay is already reads ‘Leaving today’, and in fact the room is occupied, and that is how the calendar shows it.
The words of the two scales deliberately do not overlap — otherwise they would read as one.
More: Bookings and stays.