Direct booking, done right

Your Hotel.
Your Guests.
Your Bookings — Direct.

HotelWebsites builds high-converting, lightning-fast websites and direct-booking engines for independent and boutique hotels — so you keep the revenue that Booking.com and Expedia take, build real guest relationships, and own your demand.

243+ U.S. markets·Built for independent & boutique hotels only

Stop renting your guests from

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The problem

Every OTA booking is a guest you rented

Independent hotels hand 15–25% of revenue to the online travel agencies — then lose the guest's data, the relationship, and the next booking. We build the website and the system that win those bookings back.

15–25%
Typical OTA commission per booking
~50%
Of independent-hotel bookings flow through OTAs
0%
Commission on a direct booking
Repeat-stay value of an owned guest relationship
What we do

One focus: direct bookings for hotels

We are not a general web agency that also does hotels. Hotels are the entire business — and every service exists to grow your commission-free direct revenue.

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Hotel Website Design

Fast, cinematic, conversion-first websites built to turn lookers into direct bookings — on any device, in under two seconds.

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📅

Direct Booking Engine

A frictionless, commission-free booking path woven into every page, integrated with your PMS and channel manager.

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🔍

Hotel SEO

Own the searches that book rooms — ‘hotels in [your city]’ — before the OTAs intercept your guest.

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📷

Hotel Photography

Cinematic room, amenity, and destination photography that makes your rate look worth it.

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Metasearch & Paid Ads

Google Hotel Ads, metasearch, and brand-defense campaigns that feed your direct channel.

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Email & Guest CRM

Turn one-time guests into repeat direct bookings with email and a guest list you actually own.

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How it works

From OTA-dependent to direct-first

01

Audit

We quantify exactly what your OTA mix and current website cost you in commission and lost direct bookings.

02

Build

A fast, cinematic, conversion-first website with your booking engine, rates, and brand — live in weeks.

03

Capture

Hotel SEO, metasearch, brand defense, and email capture point your demand straight at your own site.

04

Grow

We measure every booking and tune relentlessly. Direct share climbs; the commission line shrinks.

240+ U.S. hotel markets — mapped & ready
Local depth

We know your market

From New York to Maui, we've built deep market intelligence for every major U.S. hotel destination — the demand drivers, the submarkets, the seasonality, and the direct-booking strategy that works in each.

Every market guide is a 6,000-word breakdown of what fills hotel rooms there and how an independent property wins more direct bookings against it.

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“We were handing nearly a third of our revenue to the OTAs and calling it marketing. The new site changed the math — our direct bookings nearly doubled, and we finally own our guest list.”
— General Manager, boutique hotel

See what direct bookings are worth for your hotel.

Send us your property details and we'll return a free proposal — including a real estimate of the commission you're leaving on the table.

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