Built for Hotels. Only Hotels.

The problem we couldn't stop thinking about

Independent hotels run on thin margins and hand 15 to 25 percent of their revenue to online travel agencies — not once, but on booking after booking, forever. The OTAs earned that position by building genuinely useful distribution. But somewhere along the way, ‘a useful discovery channel’ became ‘the only channel,’ and capable hotels stopped owning their own demand.

HotelWebsites was built to close that gap. Not by telling hotels to abandon the OTAs — that would be naive — but by building the website, the booking engine, and the demand system that let a property win back the bookings it should never have been renting in the first place.

Why we only do hotels

A general web agency makes a nice-looking site. We engineer a direct-booking machine — booking-engine integration, rate strategy, hotel schema, metasearch, conversion details that decide whether a traveler books with you or bounces back to an OTA. You can't do that well as a side specialty. So we don't do anything else.

That focus is why we've mapped the demand, submarkets, and seasonality of more than 240 U.S. hotel markets — from the biggest gateway cities to the small resort towns that live and die by their season. When we build for a hotel in your market, we already understand it.

How we work

Plainly, and with the numbers in front of us. We quantify what your current setup costs, we build something measurably better, and we report on direct revenue and channel cost — not vanity metrics. We'd rather earn the next engagement with results than lock you into a contract you regret.