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Hospitality: Direct-booking share increase story reducing OTA dependency

Confidential — Hospitality ·

The challenge
OTA dependency and the commission cost that comes with it. Compounding the problem, attribution was unreliable enough that the team could not agree on which channel was actually responsible.
Results

What changed, and over what period

+145%
Organic visibility

12 months vs. baseline

−36%
Cost per lead

Blended across all channels

3.5×
Qualified enquiries

Vs. same period prior year

Note: figures shown are illustrative pending client approval. Real engagement data replaces them before publication — we do not present invented metrics as verified results.

Approach

What we actually did

  1. 01Diagnosis across local seo and direct-booking funnel optimisation to establish the actual constraint
  2. 02Location and amenity clusters, booking schema, review and rating schema
  3. 03Conversion research on the pages already carrying qualified traffic
  4. 04Measurement rebuilt so every subsequent decision had a defensible baseline
The difference was that every recommendation arrived with the reasoning attached.

Client leadership

Hotel and resort marketing managers

Hospitality

Recognise the problem?

We will start by working out whether your constraint is actually the same one.