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Every booking through an aggregator costs you a commission and a customer relationship. We build the demand, content and booking experience that shift share back to direct.
Billboard effect
travellers routinely discover a property on an aggregator then search it by name before booking
Source: Cornell Hospitality Research
Commission
OTA bookings typically carry a double-digit percentage commission per reservation
Source: Industry standard
Reviews
recent reviews and management responses are consistently among the top factors in accommodation choice
Source: Traveller behaviour research
A hotel or restaurant can be full and still be struggling, because the margin on a room booked through an aggregator is a fraction of the margin on the same room booked directly. Commission is only part of the cost. The larger loss is the relationship: the guest belongs to the platform, so the repeat stay, the email list and the ability to market to them later all sit with someone else.
Our work in hospitality concentrates on shifting booking share toward direct channels — not by abandoning aggregators, which are valuable for discovery, but by making sure the traveller who found you there completes the booking with you.
A significant share of travellers discover a property on an aggregator and then search for it by name before booking. That branded search moment is the highest-value opportunity in hospitality marketing, and it is routinely lost — either because a competitor or the aggregator itself is bidding on the property name, or because the property's own site is slower and less convincing than the platform the traveller just left.
Defending branded search, matching the aggregator on price transparency and cancellation clarity, and offering a concrete reason to book direct is usually the fastest margin improvement available to a property.
Nobody books a room they cannot picture. Hospitality is the category where production quality most directly determines revenue: rooms, food, common areas and the surrounding location, shot properly and updated when things change. Weak or outdated photography suppresses both the direct site and the aggregator listings simultaneously.
Travellers read recent reviews and, crucially, how management responds to criticism. A defensive or absent response does more damage than the original complaint. Systematic review management is one of the highest-return operational habits in this sector.
Booking windows vary enormously — a weekend city stay is booked days ahead, a destination wedding months. Campaigns must be planned against those windows and against your occupancy calendar, pushing hard into soft periods rather than spending evenly and paying premium rates to fill dates that would have sold anyway.
Aggregator bookings carry a substantial commission and hand the guest relationship to the platform.
Travellers search the property by name and land on an aggregator, because nobody is defending that term.
Slow, clunky or mobile-hostile booking flows send ready-to-book guests back to the platform they came from.
Dated or poorly lit images suppress conversion on the property site and the aggregator listings at the same time.
Recent criticism left unanswered, which travellers weigh heavily and which no advertising budget can offset.
Defending branded search, matching aggregators on transparency, and giving guests a concrete reason to book with you.
Presence where travellers compare, tuned to your booking windows and occupancy calendar.
Rooms, food, spaces and location shot properly — the single biggest conversion lever in hospitality.
A fast, mobile-first path from interest to confirmed reservation, with rate and cancellation clarity.
Systematic review generation and professional responses that protect conversion.
Spend concentrated into soft periods rather than spread evenly across dates that would fill anyway.
We listen, audit and research — understanding your market, audience and goals before anything else.
We craft a clear, measurable roadmap designed to hit the outcomes that matter to your business.
Our team builds, creates and launches with precision — pairing engineering rigour with bold creativity.
We measure, optimise and double down on what works to compound your growth over time.
The metric is margin-bearing direct bookings, not total occupancy that flatters the report.
Photography and film are produced in-house, so the imagery is current and matches the campaign.
Media weighted to the dates you actually need to fill.
We use platforms for reach while systematically converting that reach into direct relationships.
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