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We only make money when you do.
Pure Simplicity. Pure Performance. Pure Partnership.
No subscription, installation or maintenance costs.
Best rates online
Instant confirmation online
Reservation guarantee
Modify reservation online 24/7
The guest will reserve directly through the hotel website if it offers…4
The guest searches for hotels in the destination city using the popular search engines.1 The guest reviews various hotel portals and online
travel agents, then selects a hotel based on location, rates and quality.
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The guest then finds the hotel website, comparing rates and reservation terms to those on the portals
and online travel agents. 3
Common reservation behavior
Travel Agency10% commission + fees
Online Travel Agents(Expedia, Travelocity, Best Day)
30% commission
Direct Reservations10% Performance-Based fee
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Hotels earn more by selling direct through their website
A market poised to explode
Guests can make room reservations in your hotel via two online channels
Unrealized due to: • no website• poorly designed website• poorly marketed website• no instant confirmation
Hotel website
Expedia
Wotif
Quick Beds
Third partyintermediaries
Direct Indirect
The solution:
69% of guests prefer to book
direct
31% of guests prefer to book
indirect
Pure simplicityWe make things simple from start to finish
for you and your guests.
Guests will find your website more easily
Simpler still… We take our service fee upfront via the guest deposit - no billing reconciliations
View availability and rates, then make a reservation with instant
confirmation and a payment guarantee
If necessary, guests can also easily modify
bookings all by themselves
It’s simple and it works!
bringing in more visitors
turning visitors into bookers
adding value from start to finish
You achieve MORE performance on your website by:• collaborating with us on specific strategies and recommendations focused on improving occupancy, revenue and gross profit• receiving straightforward monthly performance reports that provide statistics and information regarding your website traffic and guest’s online behaviour• ensuring that guests find available accommodations on your website at rate parity
Increase occupancy
Improve profitability
Manage reservation risk
Enhance guest loyalty
You receive all these benefit for a completely performance-based fee!
How you benefitYou get MORE visitors via ouroptimized online marketing services:• search engine optimization• paid search engine advertisement• travel directory listings• affiliate website marketing
You capture MORE bookers through our reservation service featuring:• a simple 5-step reservation process• rate parity offered on your website• a 10% deposit charged to a credit card to secure the booking• instant confirmation• easy online reservation modifications for your guest
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• Your guests can reserve: - multiple room types - staggered dates
• Simple step-by-step reservation process • Instant confirmation • Modify/cancel, 24/7
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Hotelier interface allows you to set and manage accommodation rates, availability, cancellation and no-show policies
Your guests can amend or cancel their reservation instantly and we can easily remit the cancellation & no-show fees to your hotel.
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Website performance reports are given on a periodic basis.
We email and/or call you to discuss results and jointly enhance performance
as needed.
Search Engine Marketer
Web Design Specialist
Revenue Manager Copywriter
A dedicated team takes every opportunity to maximize your website performance.
Performance Maximization
Assistant
Difference between online & offline marketing
Online Marketing• Utilizes the internet to create awareness of
services and to generate leads. There are two types:
• On page – Website’s design & structure• Off page - posting relevant information
about your hotel on the Internet.
- Open Directory Submission- Press Release Submission- Submission to Social Bookmarking
sites- Submission to Wikitravel- Blog posting- Forum posting
Offline Marketing• Utilizes traditional media that includes
mostly print materials like flyers, brochures, ads, billboards etc.
Costs and benefits of advertising online
Offline advertising vs. Online PPC advertising
Newspaper Paid online advertisement
Cost •On the average, hotels can pay at least $42.00.for a column inch of black and white advertising space. Costs increase as the ad size gets bigger.
DirectWithHotels pays for an online advertisement of your hotel. Cost can range from USD 0.05 to USD 0.30 for 4 lines and 130 characters.
Visibility •Visibility of the ad is limited to those who read the newspaper in the area where it is circulated.
Visibility of the online advertisement is any English speaking person in the world.
Pure performanceWe only make money when you do.
Set up costs Software licensing fees Marketing chargesAdditional charges
Our unique fee structure is purely performance-based.
Pure partnershipWe collaborate with you to attract, convert and manage more direct bookings.
The more successful your direct reservations performance, the more successful we are.
Portfolio Management Team
That’s pure motivation!
Our fee structure
We succeed only when you succeed!
Reservation guarantee deposit
of 10% on accommodation charges
Hotel
Remaining 90% of accommodation charges
and all other charges paid directly by guests
Deposit-guaranteed reservation
Our service fee is the guest deposit at the time of booking. No added charges for the many services that we offer.
Four easy steps:
Sales Partner
DirectWithHotels
Hotelier
Simple process flow:
1Start
2
3 4
Getting started is easy!
2Undergo hotelier
interface training
Start
Partner with us to simplify your life
1Launch reserva-
tion service
3Establish baseline perform-
ance4
Step 1: Partner with us & simplify your life
The Hotel’s Commitments
• For any given month, all accommodation types are available at least 50% of the time (15 days)
• Provide us up-to-date information so we can target your guests better in our ATTRACT/marketing efforts.
• Provide better rates so you can be competitive and take advantage of your guest’s preference to book direct allocate accommodations so more guests can reserve with instant confirmation
• Recognize these reservations up to check-in.
DirectWithHotels Service Commitments
• ATTRACT : bringing in more visitors to the hotel website• CONVERT : turning visitors into bookers• MANAGE : adding value for start to finish
Performance-based service fee : guarantees our incentive to improve your direct reservations performance
If you do not have an existing website, we will create one for you at no additional cost.
Step 2: Undergo hotelier interface training
Manage accommodation availability, rates, policies, and other reservation offerings to guests through our hotelier interface.