WEBSITE MIGRATION

Your Hotel Site Just Lost Another Guest to Booking.com

If you're running a boutique property or independent hotel group, every second your WordPress site stalls is a direct booking you'll never see -- and a 15-18% OTA commission you didn't need to pay.

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WEBSITE MIGRATION AT A GLANCE
  • Next.js 14
  • Vercel
  • Sanity CMS
  • Node.js
  • REST APIs
  • Amadeus GDS
  • 95+LIGHTHOUSE AVG
  • 12+ yrsSENIOR-LED
  • Fixed feeNO SCOPE CREEP
  • 200+PROJECTS SHIPPED
CLUTCH 5.0 VERIFIED

Overview — 01

Move your hotel off WordPress and onto Next.js -- with a rebuilt booking engine, live PMS integration, and page loads fast enough to keep guests from bouncing to OTAs.

Hotel WordPress to Next.js Migration

A full-stack migration that replaces a slow WordPress hotel site with a Next.js frontend connected directly to your PMS via real-time API. The rebuilt stack includes a custom booking engine, dynamic rate and availability display, and a CDN-optimised delivery layer. Every existing URL, meta tag, and structured data block is preserved or redirected to protect organic search rankings built over years.

The gap — 02

What is holding your current website back?

Common gaps we find in nearly every audit.

Your WordPress site takes 4-7 seconds to load on mobile, which is exactly when a guest decides to check Booking.com instead.
Risk: Google's Core Web Vitals data shows conversion rates drop roughly 20% for every additional two seconds of load time, meaning a slow hotel site is actively subsidising OTA commissions on bookings you should own.
Rate and availability data on your site is pulled from a nightly sync or a slow third-party widget, so guests see stale prices and incomplete room inventory.
Risk: When live rates shown on an OTA differ from what your site displays, guests default to the platform they trust -- and you pay a 15-18% commission on a booking you had priced correctly all along.
Every plugin update cycle on WordPress carries the risk of breaking your booking flow, crashing availability widgets, or creating security exposures in payment-adjacent code.
Risk: A single booking engine outage during a peak search window -- a long weekend, a local event, a school holiday -- can erase weeks of direct-booking momentum and push repeat guests back to OTA habit loops.

Safeguards — 03

How we build this right

Every safeguard, built in from Day 1.

Zero SEO Regression Policy

Every existing URL is audited before cutover. Permanent 301 redirects, canonical tags, hreflang attributes, and structured data markup are validated in staging and tested against Google Search Console before the DNS switch. Organic ranking positions are monitored weekly for 90 days post-launch.

PCI-Scoped Booking Architecture

Payment capture is handled entirely by your PMS or a certified payment gateway -- no card data touches the Next.js application layer. The architecture is documented to support your PCI DSS SAQ-A or SAQ-A-EP self-assessment, and CSP headers are configured to block third-party script injection by default.

Uptime and Performance SLA

The delivered stack is configured for 99.9% uptime through edge deployment on Vercel or Cloudflare Pages with automatic failover. Core Web Vitals targets -- LCP under 2.5 seconds, CLS below 0.1, INP under 200ms -- are contractually defined and measured at handoff using real-device lab tests, not simulated scores.

Scope — 04

What we build

Purpose-built features for your industry.

Live PMS Rate and Availability Sync

Room rates, availability calendars, and minimum-stay restrictions are pulled directly from your PMS via API on every page request, with edge caching set to intervals you define. Guests see the same inventory your front desk sees, eliminating the rate-parity disputes that erode OTA contract standing.

Rebuilt Direct Booking Engine

The booking flow is rebuilt from the component level -- room selection, date picker, rate comparison, extras upsell, guest details, and payment handoff -- optimised for mobile-first completion rather than adapted from a desktop plugin. Abandonment points are instrumented with analytics from day one so you can act on real drop-off data.

Structured Data for Rich Search Results

Hotel, LodgingBusiness, and Offer schema is implemented and validated so your property can appear in Google's hotel search panels with direct-booking links. Event and local attraction schema is added where relevant to capture destination-search traffic that WordPress themes typically ignore.

Content Management Without Developer Dependency

The Next.js build is connected to a headless CMS -- Sanity or Contentful, depending on your team's workflow -- so front-desk staff can update room descriptions, add seasonal packages, and publish blog content without touching code or risking a plugin conflict. Schema changes require a developer; copy and media do not.

Stack — 05

Built on a modern, secure stack

Next.js 14VercelSanity CMSNode.jsREST APIsAmadeus GDSStripeTailwind CSS

Process — 06

Our development process

From discovery to launch. Quality at every step.

01

Audit and Architecture Scoping

1 week

We crawl your existing WordPress site, document every URL, redirect chain, schema block, and third-party integration. Your PMS vendor API documentation is reviewed and the booking engine data model is mapped before a line of code is written. You receive a written scope document specifying deliverables, exclusions, and handoff criteria.

02

Staging Build and PMS Integration

3-4 weeks

The Next.js application is built in a private staging environment against your PMS sandbox or a rate-limited production key. Booking flow, rate display, availability logic, and payment handoff are tested end-to-end with real room types and date combinations. You have full access to staging throughout this phase for internal review.

03

SEO Migration and Pre-Launch Validation

1 week

All redirects are implemented and verified with automated crawl testing. Structured data is validated in Google's Rich Results Test. Page speed is measured on real mobile hardware against the contractual Core Web Vitals targets. Google Search Console and Analytics are connected and recording before cutover is approved.

04

Cutover, Handoff, and Post-Launch Monitoring

2 weeks

DNS is switched during a low-traffic window -- typically a mid-week overnight. Crawl errors, ranking positions, booking completion rates, and server logs are monitored daily for the first two weeks and weekly for the following 10 weeks. Your team receives documented runbooks for CMS updates, cache purging, and PMS credential rotation.

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Questions — 08

Frequently asked questions

No. Every indexed WordPress URL gets mapped and redirected via Next.js edge middleware before the site goes live. Structured data, canonical tags, and sitemaps are rebuilt and resubmitted to Search Console on day one. Our migrations consistently show zero ranking loss -- and most hotel clients see 15-25% organic traffic gains within 90 days, driven by improved Core Web Vitals.
We build a Node.js API layer that connects to your PMS through its REST or SOAP API. Opera, Cloudbeds, Mews, Amadeus -- all supported. Rates, availability, and restrictions sync bidirectionally in real time. When a guest books, the reservation pushes to your PMS and channel manager simultaneously, stopping overbookings before they happen.
A single-property hotel with standard PMS integration typically takes 10-14 weeks from kickoff to launch. Multi-property migrations with complex channel manager setups run 14-20 weeks. We can also phase it -- launch the marketing site first, then the booking engine -- so you're not disrupting anything during peak season.
Yes. We set up a headless CMS like Sanity with a hotel-specific content model covering room types, amenities, galleries, and seasonal promotions. Your team edits through a clean dashboard, and changes go live in seconds -- no code, no waiting on a developer.
They stay exactly as they are. Your channel manager keeps distributing inventory to OTAs as before. The difference is your direct channel now actually competes on speed and experience. Most hotel clients see a 10-20% shift from OTA to direct bookings within six months -- which is real money saved in commission fees every single month.
Most hotel sites run on Vercel Pro at $20/month per team member, with total hosting costs landing between $50-$200/month, even through traffic surges. Compare that to the $500-$2,000/month many hotels pay for managed WordPress hosting. The CDN is global by default -- guests in Tokyo and London both get sub-second load times.

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