Personalized Incentives Will Convince Your Visitors to Book Directly

Increasing direct bookings through your own hotel’s website is a New Year’s resolution almost ubiquitous amongst hoteliers in 2017. The big booking platforms have managed to assume a strong position during the industry’s ongoing transition from offline to online business with four out of five online bookings now done through OTAs.

Read the article of the Hotel Yearbook 2017 about how Hotelchamp helps hoteliers!

We are proud to announce Hotelchamp’s CEO Kristian Valk is chosen to share his expertise on building customer relations and increasing direct bookings in the official Hotel Yearbook 2017.

Converting hotel website visitors into hotel guests is a mutual goal for WIHP and Hotelchamp, therefore a collaboration between these two players is a logical step. As of today, the partnership is official, it’s the perfect match to provide high quality hotel marketing including outstanding looking websites with advanced technology.

Hotelchamp won the prestigious title “Challenger of the Year 2016”. Check out the video and look back at our victory!

We are pleased to announce our partnership with the European leading hotel distribution suite Availpro.

Availpro

Founded in 2001, Availpro is a leading provider of e-booking software solutions, such as smart booking engines, which allows 6.500 hotels to increase their occupancy and revenue while saving costs.

The Accommodation Association of Australia has officially requested action in a letter to the Chairman of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), Mr Rod Sims, and follows an ACCC investigation into this market, which ended with it negotiating an ‘administrative arrangement’ with offshore global online travel agents, Expedia and Booking.com, who control 80 per cent of the Australian market.( Source: accomnews)

Imagine, you are tired and have just had a meeting with the hotel owner.

Bookings are down, and they want results. You sit at your desk and load up the Hotel website and wonder ‘what am I going to do, how am I going to increase the hotel’s direct revenue?’

We are proud to announce we won the prestigious title “Sprout Challenger of the Year 2016”.

Sprout
Each year Sprout, a well-known Dutch magazine focusing on entrepreneurs, selects the 50 most innovative and

“Sprout inspires and connects ambitious entrepreneurs.”

Every year the well-known Dutch Magazine Sprout is organising the Sprout Challenger50, gathering the fifty most challenging and innovative companies in the Netherlands.

The global hotel industry’s leading cloud platform SiteMinder revealed that the average booking value hoteliers are making on their direct channels nearly doubles the value they are receiving from third-party booking channels.