Your Hotel Loses £54 Every Time a Guest Books Through Booking.com
If you're a hotel owner watching OTAs take 25% of your revenue, we build you the direct booking engine that stops the bleed.
A boutique hotel in Bath was paying Booking.com a 15-18% commission on every reservation -- that's -54 lost on a /night room. Their own website was a WordPress theme with a broken booking widget that redirected to a third-party engine. Direct bookings were 12% of total -- industry average for independent hotels is 30-40%. After we rebuilt them on Next.js with a custom booking engine connected to their Cloudbeds PMS, direct bookings climbed to 38% in four months. There are roughly 55,000 hotels in the US (AHLA) and 10,000 in the UK (VisitBritain). Google reports that 65% of same-day hotel bookings come from mobile search. Every booking you push from OTA to direct saves you 15-25% in commission. That's the ROI case -- your website literally pays for itself.
Your booking engine loads. The guest toggles dates, adds a spa package, enters payment -- and you keep 100% of the margin. That's hotel website development: a direct booking system that replaces OTA dependency with your own conversion stack. Your site becomes the revenue channel -- mobile-first checkout, real-time inventory sync, dynamic rate parity, review aggregation from TripAdvisor and Google -- all under your brand. The average property surrenders 15–25% per OTA booking. Multiply that across 200 nights and you've funded a competitor's ad budget instead of your guest experience. A custom hotel site with an integrated booking engine and automated email flows turns your domain into the primary acquisition layer, not a brochure that leaks to Booking.com.
What is holding your current website back?
Common gaps we find in nearly every audit.
What Your Website Could Look Like
Custom-designed for your industry. No templates. No stock photos.
How We Build This Right
Every safeguard, built in from Day 1.
Integrated Booking Engine
Direct connection to your PMS or channel manager via API. Real-time availability, rate display, and secure checkout -- without pushing guests off your site.
PCI-Compliant Payments
Tokenized payment processing through Stripe or your preferred gateway. Guest card data never touches your server.
ADA & WCAG Accessibility
Full WCAG 2.1 AA compliance built in from the start. Semantic HTML, keyboard navigation, and screen reader support -- not a plugin slapped on afterward.
SEO-Optimized Architecture
Schema markup for hotels, rooms, reviews, and local business. Server-rendered pages that Google indexes immediately.
Revenue Analytics Dashboard
Track direct booking conversion, channel attribution, and revenue per available room from a single interface tied to your PMS data.
Headless CMS for Content
Update rooms, rates, packages, and blog posts yourself through Sanity CMS. No developer required for day-to-day content changes.
What We Build
Purpose-built features for your industry.
Eliminate 15–25% OTA commissions draining every third-party reservation
Capture direct bookings through a native engine that syncs inventory in real time
Replace template themes that make your property indistinguishable from budget chains
Build custom packages at checkout -- spa credits, dining, local tours -- that increase ADR
Fix mobile booking flows that abandon 73% of travelers mid-checkout
Manage multiple properties from one CMS with shared branding and separate booking logic
Enforce rate parity across channels without manual spreadsheet reconciliation
Aggregate verified reviews into schema-marked feeds that lift organic CTR by 35%
Stop waiting weeks for a developer to update seasonal promotions or room details
Serve international guests in their language and currency with automatic locale detection
Surface guest reviews and upsell opportunities before checkout instead of burying them
Trigger pre-arrival and post-stay emails from PMS booking events without manual sends
Built on a Modern, Secure Stack
Our Development Process
From discovery to launch. Quality at every step.
Discovery & Competitive Audit
Week 1We audit your current booking funnel, OTA dependency ratio, and competitor sites. You'll get a detailed gap analysis and a clear conversion roadmap.
Design & Prototype
Weeks 2-3High-fidelity designs for key pages: homepage, room detail, booking flow, and local area guide. Mobile-first, benchmarked against hospitality conversion data.
Engineering & Integration
Weeks 4-6Next.js build with PMS and channel manager API integration, payment processing, and CMS setup. Every page targets a 95+ Lighthouse score.
Content Migration & QA
Week 7We migrate existing content, optimize images, set up 301 redirects, and run cross-browser and device testing with real booking flow validation.
Launch & Optimize
Week 8+Go live with monitoring, analytics configuration, and 30 days of post-launch support. We track direct booking lift and keep iterating based on conversion data.
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