The Carnus Rooms Forecaster™ is a novel forecasting technology for hotel room-operations, generating accurate, fast, and automated forecasts of room variables such as arrivals, departures, and occupancy, along with daily labor needs.

Whether limited or full-service, determining future room occupancy, arrivals, departures, or other variables that effect budgeting and labor is a tough challenge.  How can management expect to properly staff when guests numbers are constantly fluctuating?

In the past, managers have spent hundreds of hours per year in an effort to maintain adequate staffing and departmental operations.  Methods used to formulate schedules and operations included:

Guesswork & Intuition

Capture ratios based on predicted hotel occupancy

Examination of last year's schedule for the same day

MS Excel Calculations

Linear Regression & Moving Averages



Unfortunately, the hospitality industry is much more complex than guesswork and simple linear calculations yield to within both limited and full-service properties. A typical hotel is impacted by hundreds of potential variables that each influence one another in a complex labyrinth of linear and non-linear interactions.  For example, on Fridays that are sunny in the month of February, the nearby convention center may only contribute to 15% of the total hotel's occupancy.  However, the same convention center may account for 55% of the total hotel occupancy on a rainy Tuesday in the month of September.

By implementing the Carnus Rooms Forecaster™, your hotel will now be able to accurately forecast demand and appropriately staff.  Using the Carnus Rooms Forecaster™, you will now be able to correctly staff:

Housekeeping Labor Needs

Laundry Poundage/Tonnage & Staff

Front Desk, Concierge, Bellmen & Doormen

Room Occupancy

Guest Count

Arrivals & Departures

Poor staffing that results from inaccurate demand forecasts can lead to massive financial loss and poor service quality.  The Carnus Rooms Forecaster™ is the solution to this problem.  The Carnus Rooms Forecaster™ is a custom-tailored, automated wed-based solution that uses state-of-the-art artificial intelligence technologies to yield accurate hotel rooms & staffing forecasts.  With the Carnus Rooms Forecaster™, you will:

Significantly reduce overstaffing, thereby saving labor costs.

Significantly reduce understaffing, thereby improving service quality.

Maintain a consistent, high-quality service atmosphere year round.

Enhance operation efficiency by having managers focus increased time and
 attention on revenue generation.

Some features included with the Carnus Rooms Forecaster™:

The Carnus Rooms Forecaster™ incorporates the most cutting-edge
 artificial intelligence technologies to provide a non-linear forecasting
 solution that yields the most accurate predictions.

The software is automated; forecasts are produced in a matter of seconds.

Forecasts can be viewed from anywhere in the world on any computer with
internet access and a browser.

All uploaded in-house records and generated forecasts are stored to a
centralized location in the included Carnus Data Depository™.

All data, files, records, and forecasts uploaded or generated by the Carnus
Rooms Forecaster™ are stored in a unified format that may easily be
exported to a Microsoft Excel file for manipulation, reporting, and analysis.

Sharing information is now easy!  Any manager with a username and
password can login to the Carnus Rooms Forecaster™ from anywhere in
the world to access forecasts or stored hotel information.

Your data and forecasts are secure.  The Carnus Rooms Forecaster™ uses
servers located in a secure data center that incorporates biometric
identification verification, intrustion prevention systems, and an enterprise
network firewall. A username and password are required to access
our servers, and access may be limited to specific departments.