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How Demand360 Data Works in Insights

Understanding data delivery, metric definitions, and how to get the most out of Demand360 alongside your other Insights data.

Written by Ashley Dehertogh
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Demand360 data in Insights is sourced from Amadeus and brings forward-looking market benchmarking into the same product as your bookings, pickup, forecast, and rate shopping data. Understanding how the data is structured and delivered will help you get the most out of it — and know exactly when to reach for the native Demand360 product instead.


Why we show the latest data

When building Demand360 into Insights, we made a deliberate choice: always show the most recent data available.

Our research with revenue managers consistently showed that when evaluating forward-looking market performance, the latest snapshot is what matters most. Where are you positioned right now, relative to your comp set? That is the question driving daily decisions — and it is the question the latest data answers most directly.

This also reflects how Insights is designed more broadly. Our goal is not to replicate every capability of the native Demand360 product, but to bring the most decision-relevant benchmarking data into the same environment as your own performance data, so you can evaluate your forward position in context rather than in isolation. Demand360 in Amadeus remains the right tool for deep historical snapshot comparisons and exploring how your comp set picture has evolved at specific points in time. We are designed to complement that, not replace it.

Future phases of this integration will bring in pickup and same time last year benchmark comparisons, so you can track how your market position is trending over time — alongside the contextual richness you already have in Insights.


How the data is delivered

Amadeus sends Demand360 data to FLYR in two ways:

  • A historical file delivered when your integration is first set up, covering up to 15 months of past stay dates. This gives you a meaningful baseline of historical context from day one

  • Rolling updates delivered roughly twice per week, each covering a rolling 12-month forward window. These keep your forward-looking view current as market conditions evolve

The days of delivery are not fixed — they vary week to week.

The Latest Reported Date shown in the Demand360 dashboard tells you the date the data is current as of. It is informational — not a filter. You are always viewing the most recent snapshot we have received from Amadeus, and earlier snapshots are not accessible within Insights.

Latest Reported Date is also available as a field in the Demand360 topic. You can add it to your own dashboard templates or include it in ad hoc queries to make data currency visible wherever you are working.


Why figures may not match what you see in the Amadeus platform

If you also have access to the native Demand360 product, you may notice that numbers don't always align exactly. This is expected. For the full breakdown of reasons, see FAQ: Demand360 Data in Insights.

The most nuanced factor to understand is snapshot timing. The native Demand360 product lets you select a specific historical date to view how the picture looked at that point in time. Insights always shows the latest snapshot — earlier snapshots are not accessible. If you are comparing to a specific as-of date in Amadeus, you are looking at different underlying data. That is not a discrepancy — it is two distinct views of the same market, taken at different points in time.

If you notice a significant or persistent discrepancy that you can't explain by the above, reach out to us via the chat — it may indicate a data delivery issue worth investigating.


How room nights and occupancy are defined

Room nights and occupancy in the Demand360 topic are consistent with how those metrics work across all other Insights topics. They represent all room nights that are deducting from available capacity — including Unsold Block room nights — because these are committed room nights that reduce what is available to sell, regardless of whether a confirmed reservation exists against them.

This makes it straightforward to compare and layer Demand360 figures with room nights and units in your bookings and pickup topics, because they are built on the same principle.

A note on the Amadeus platform: Amadeus represents occupancy differently in different parts of their product — some views include Unsold Block, others do not. In Insights, the default always includes all room nights that are deducting from capacity, giving you a complete and consistent picture.

If you want to focus only on room nights with confirmed reservations — picked-up demand only, excluding Unsold Block — use the Segment fields as filters. You can do this using the Segment filter control on the pre-built dashboard, or in any workbook or ad hoc query by filtering the Segment field to exclude Unsold Block.


Understanding Unsold Block

Unsold Block represents room nights that are committed but not yet picked up — blocked or allotted without a confirmed reservation against them. Depending on how your property reports this data in Amadeus, Unsold Block room nights can fall under Transient, Group, or Other. It is not exclusively group blocks or allotments — it can represent any category of uncommitted room nights that are deducting from available capacity.

Because of this, Unsold Block is its own Segment value in the Demand360 topic, visible alongside Transient, Group, and Other. You can filter to it, exclude it, or explore it independently depending on what you are trying to understand.


The unsold block Risk Signal

The pre-built Demand360 dashboard includes a Risk Signal for each stay period. This is a field FLYR built into the dashboard template — it does not exist in the underlying Demand360 topic and will not appear if you build a workbook from the topic directly.

The signal classifies each stay period into one of three tiers based on two factors: your unsold block share (unsold block room nights as a share of total room nights) and your Occupancy Index relative to the comp set.

Tier

Criteria

Low

Unsold block share is below 2%, or Occupancy Index is at or above 100

Moderate

Unsold block share is between 2% and 10%, and Occupancy Index is below 100

High

Unsold block share exceeds 10%, and Occupancy Index is below 100

The logic reflects two compounding risk factors: how much block room nights still need to convert, and whether your overall market position already shows underperformance. A large block exposure is less concerning when you are over-indexing against the market; it carries more weight when you are already under-indexing and relying on those blocks to materialize.

Because this field lives in the dashboard template and not the topic, you can copy the template and adjust the thresholds to reflect your own risk tolerance. If you would like help doing that, reach out to us via the chat.


What the Occupancy Index means — and when it is suppressed

The Occupancy Index is calculated as:

Subscriber occupancy % ÷ Comp set occupancy % × 100

  • Above 100: you are over-indexing — your occupancy is higher than your comp set's

  • Below 100: you are under-indexing

  • Exactly 100: parity

The index is suppressed and shown as when comp set room nights for a given period fall below 50, to avoid presenting a misleading signal based on too thin a sample.

At segment level: a high index for a specific segment can reflect concentration rather than genuine outperformance. If your Group segment is heavily committed and the comp set has little Group on the books, the index will be high — but that reflects a mix difference, not necessarily a demand advantage. Use segment-level index as a signal to investigate further, not as a standalone conclusion.


Why comp set ADR and RevPAR are blank for future stay dates

Amadeus does not provide comp set revenue data for future stay dates. This is an industry policy restriction that applies across all Amadeus products.

In practice:

  • ADR Index and RevPAR Index are unavailable for future stay dates and will appear blank when looking forward

  • Occupancy and the Occupancy Index are available for forward-looking dates — forward demand analysis is unaffected

For past stay dates, comp set ADR and RevPAR are available and all three indexes calculate normally.


Combining Demand360 with your other data

This is where Demand360 in Insights really shines. Forward-looking benchmarking data is most useful not in isolation, but in context — and Insights is built to make that combination as frictionless as possible.

The central question Demand360 helps you answer is: are you getting your fair share of demand in the market, for the periods that matter most to your performance goals? Pairing it with your other data is how you move from that question to a decision.

  • Rate shopping. If your Demand360 comp set overlaps with the properties you track in rate shopping you can combine both in a single workbook or dashboard. Demand360 tells you where you stand on occupancy and demand; rate shopping tells you what public rates are doing in the same market. Focus on periods where you are under-indexing to understand whether a rate adjustment is warranted, and on periods where you are over-indexing to validate the strategy that got you there — so you can learn from it and repeat it.

  • Forecast and Budget. Layer in your forecast and budget data to understand whether the market conditions you are seeing support or challenge your performance goals. If the market is soft for a specific period and you are under-indexing, that is context for revisiting your strategy. If you are over-indexing against a rising market, that validates your approach and gives you confidence in your current positioning.

  • Bookings and Pickup. Demand360 tells you how the market is positioned; your bookings and pickup topics tell you how your own position is building. Used together, they help you evaluate not just where you are, but whether you are capturing your fair share of the demand that is in the market.

A few things to keep in mind when combining topics:

  • Figures will not align exactly across data sources. Demand360 updates twice per week; your bookings and pickup data updates more frequently. Treat combined views as directional and trend-indicative rather than expecting figures to reconcile precisely

  • The pre-built Demand360 dashboard uses Demand360 data only. Combined analysis is best built in a workbook, where you have full control over what you are joining and how


Comp set, segment, and channel naming

For details on how your comp set is configured, what to do if you change it, and segment and channel naming conventions, see FAQ: Demand360 Data in Insights.


Questions about your Demand360 data or how to get the most from it? Ask in the chat — always happy to help.

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