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Expedia, Booking.com, and Hotels.com take 15 to 25 percent on every booking they send you. Your website should be your most profitable booking channel, not your most expensive one. Ignited Nepal builds hospitality websites for hotels, boutique properties, resorts, vacation rentals, and event and wedding venues across the United States that are engineered to capture direct bookings.
You compete against large branded hotels that have loyalty programs, app-based booking, and established direct channels. Your advantage is experience, character, and service, but your website is not selling that story or giving guests a structural reason to book direct. A properly built direct booking engine, a clear rate guarantee, and full room pages give you the tools to compete.
Your guests plan ahead, research extensively, and often land on your site after comparing you on Expedia or TripAdvisor. If your website does not give them a reason to complete the booking directly — a visible rate advantage, a clear booking engine, a compelling reason to skip the OTA — the commission gets paid. At $300 to $800 per night average, that commission is significant.
Wedding and event venue bookings are relationship-based and high-value. A well-built venue hire section with photos, capacity details, catering options, floor plans, and testimonials can drive consistent direct enquiries from couples and corporate planners who find you through organic search. Most venue websites are brochures. A conversion-built venue page is a revenue engine.
If your website links out to Expedia, Hotels.com, or a third-party booking aggregator to complete a reservation, you are paying commission on guests who came to your own website first. A direct booking engine keeps the transaction on your site, at your margin, with full guest data retained.
US travellers are comparison shoppers. A guest who finds your property on Expedia will check your own website before booking. If they do not see a best rate guarantee, or if your direct rate matches the OTA, there is no financial reason to book direct. The guarantee, combined with a direct booking incentive, is the lever that changes that decision.
Expedia and Hotels.com display every property with structured room information: square footage, bed type, floor, view, amenities, and gallery. If your own room pages are thin, the OTA presentation wins on information quality. Every room type needs a full specifications page, a complete photo gallery, inclusions, occupancy, and a direct booking CTA.
Wedding planners, corporate event managers, and social event organisers search specifically for venue pages. They need capacities, layout configurations, catering information, and pricing guidance. If your website has no dedicated event and venue hire section, you are not appearing in that search and not receiving those enquiries.
We start with a structured review of your property, your current booking channel mix, your OTA dependency, and your highest-value guest segments. The brief defines scope, booking engine, page structure, and any event or venue hire requirements before design begins.
We plan the complete site structure before any visual work begins. Every room type, dining outlet, event space, and ancillary experience is assigned a page. The architecture is built around the guest booking journey, with direct conversion as the organising principle.
Key pages are wireframed to map the path from arrival to booking. The homepage, room pages, event and venue hire pages, and the rate comparison flow are all solved at the wireframe stage before design begins.
We design hospitality websites that match the character of the property — whether that is mountain lodge, coastal retreat, urban boutique, or wine country estate — while building a system that performs across all devices and drives bookings.
We build and integrate your booking engine — Cloudbeds, ResNexus, Mews, SiteMinder, or other — so live rates and availability are displayed and bookable directly on your site. The best rate guarantee module and rate comparison widget are built into the homepage and room pages.
Every room type gets a full dedicated page with specifications, gallery, inclusions, and a direct booking CTA. Food and beverage outlets get pages with menus, hours, and reservation links. Event and wedding venue pages carry capacity tables, setup options, catering information, gallery, and enquiry forms.
TripAdvisor and Google review feeds are integrated into the site. Booking source tracking is configured in Google Analytics from day one so you can see the split between direct and OTA bookings and measure the revenue impact of the shift.
We audit your current website, your booking channel split, and your OTA dependency. We map where guests are dropping off and where commission is avoidable. The output is a written brief covering scope, booking engine, and page structure.
We map the full sitemap and wireframe every key page. Room pages, event and wedding venue pages, and the homepage booking flow are all designed structurally before visual work begins.
Design is reviewed and approved before build begins. The build phase covers the complete site: booking engine integration, rate comparison module, review feeds, event and venue hire pages, and all room and F&B pages. Testing covers desktop, tablet, and mobile across major browsers.
We launch and configure booking source tracking in Google Analytics. You leave with a dashboard showing direct versus OTA bookings from day one and a 30-day post-launch review scheduled.
A full hospitality website with booking engine integration, room pages, event and venue hire pages, and review feeds typically takes 8 to 10 weeks from brief to launch. Timelines extend when photography and room content are not ready at project start. We provide a content checklist at the brief stage to prevent build delays.
We work with Cloudbeds, ResNexus, Mews, SiteMinder, and other platforms that provide a booking API or embed code. The right engine depends on your property management system, the number of room types, and whether you manage OTA channels through a channel manager. We confirm the best integration approach at the brief stage.
A best rate guarantee module shows the guest a real-time comparison of your direct rate against the leading OTA rates, and confirms that the direct rate is the best available. This is displayed on the homepage and room pages. When combined with a direct booking incentive — complimentary parking, early check-in, or a food and beverage credit — it consistently increases the percentage of bookings that complete on the hotel's own site rather than through Expedia or Booking.com.
Event and wedding venue sections are a standard deliverable in US hospitality website builds. The section includes capacity tables, room layout configurations, catering and beverage options, gallery, testimonials from past events, and an enquiry form. The page structure is built to rank for local venue searches so it generates organic enquiries rather than relying on paid listings or directory referrals.
Vacation rentals and boutique properties have booking flows that differ from standard hotel reservations — property-level availability, multi-night minimums, owner-managed pricing, and sometimes enquiry-first workflows. We build the booking and enquiry architecture to match the way the property actually operates rather than forcing a standard hotel template onto a different property type.
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If your property is paying OTA commission on bookings that could come through your own website, and if your event or venue business relies on directories that take a referral fee, the first step is a clear picture of where those bookings are being lost. We offer a hospitality website diagnostic that maps your current booking sources, identifies the gaps in your direct booking journey, and outlines what a rebuilt website would change.
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