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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.

15-30%
OTA Commission
Booking.com and Expedia commission vs 0% on direct bookings
$0
Direct Booking Fee
Own booking engine via Stripe -- no OTA middleman
73%
Mobile Booking Growth
Hotel searches from mobile -- LCP under 2.5s critical
$15-60K
Build Cost
Boutique hotel to multi-property hotel group website
What Hotel Website Development Actually Controls -- And What It Stops Bleeding

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.

OTA commissions eating 15-25% of every booking
Risk: You're funding Expedia's marketing budget instead of building your own brand equity.
Template hotel sites that look identical to competitors
Risk: Guests can't tell your property apart, so they fall back to price-shopping on OTAs.
Booking engine is slow, clunky, or hostile on mobile
Risk: 73% of travelers research on mobile. A poor checkout experience sends them straight to Booking.com.
No rate parity control or dynamic pricing integration
Risk: Inconsistent pricing across channels erodes guest trust and puts you in violation of OTA agreements.
Content updates require a developer or agency retainer
Risk: Seasonal promotions, room updates, and event pages go stale for weeks instead of getting fixed in hours.
Site doesn't surface reviews, local experiences, or upsells
Risk: You're leaving ancillary revenue on the table and blending in with commodity listings.

What Your Website Could Look Like

Custom-designed for your industry. No templates. No stock photos.

Luxury hotel booking website mockup
Hotel website with room booking

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

Next.jsSupabaseVercelCloudinaryStripeCloudbeds APISanity CMS

Our Development Process

From discovery to launch. Quality at every step.

01

Discovery & Competitive Audit

Week 1

We audit your current booking funnel, OTA dependency ratio, and competitor sites. You'll get a detailed gap analysis and a clear conversion roadmap.

02

Design & Prototype

Weeks 2-3

High-fidelity designs for key pages: homepage, room detail, booking flow, and local area guide. Mobile-first, benchmarked against hospitality conversion data.

03

Engineering & Integration

Weeks 4-6

Next.js build with PMS and channel manager API integration, payment processing, and CMS setup. Every page targets a 95+ Lighthouse score.

04

Content Migration & QA

Week 7

We migrate existing content, optimize images, set up 301 redirects, and run cross-browser and device testing with real booking flow validation.

05

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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Frequently Asked Questions

Our hotel websites start at $8,000 for a single-property site with booking engine integration. Multi-property sites and complex PMS integrations typically run from $14K to $25K+. Every project is fixed-fee — no hourly billing surprises. That price covers design, development, CMS setup, and 30 days of post-launch support.
Yes. We've built integrations with Cloudbeds, Mews, Little Hotelier, Guesty, and Oracle Opera. If your PMS has an API, we can pipe real-time availability and rates directly into your booking flow. For systems without APIs, we fall back to iframe or redirect-based solutions.
A standard single-property hotel site takes 6-8 weeks from kickoff to launch. Multi-property sites or projects with complex integrations run 8-12 weeks. We work in fixed sprints with weekly demos so you can see progress and flag anything before it becomes a problem.
Our clients typically see a 40% drop in OTA booking share within 6 months of launch. The driver is a fast, mobile-optimized booking flow paired with rate parity and direct booking incentives. We build the technical foundation — you bring the pricing strategy and guest relationships.
It depends on your PMS. Some systems like Cloudbeds include a booking engine we can style and embed directly. Others need a third-party engine like SiteMinder or TravelClick. Either way, we integrate it so guests never leave your domain during checkout, which protects both trust and conversion rates.
Absolutely. Every hotel site we build runs on a headless CMS — typically Sanity — with a clean editing interface your team can actually use. Update room descriptions, swap gallery images, create seasonal packages, publish blog posts. No code required. We train your staff as part of the launch process.
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