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6 Reasons To Choose Softinn Booking Engine

Most of the hotels received their bookings from OTAs, but a smart hotelier chose a direct booking strategy which can help to attract potential customers to book through hotel websites and build strong customer relationships. With a good hotel website, you will need to have a smart booking engine installed on your website, which may lead your guest to check out immediately while browsing through your website without going to OTAs to book it there, and also help to reduce your paid commission to OTAs and lastly drive in direct booking sales.

Here are the Top 6 Reasons why you should choose Softinn Booking Engine:-

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Hotel Booking Engine in Indonesia

Booking engine is a system in which the hotel receives a room reservation directly when the guest makes a room reservation through the hotel website or social media, such as Facebook. There are more and more hotels starting to install booking engines on their hotel website or social media because it can increase the hotel revenue by gaining direct booking. Besides that, installing a booking engine can increase the cash flow of your hotels. This is because you can receive the payments from the guests immediately.

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Hotel Booking Engine: Expectations vs. Reality

In this generation, the competition in the hotel industry has made software providers roll out booking engines even when they are not yet ready. Some software providers don’t care about their clients after they have started using their booking engine. Because of this, it is very important to do your research before you decide to invest in any booking engine. Herein, we discuss the expectation vs. reality of hotel booking engines. 

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What To Look For When Deciding On A Booking Engine For Your Hotel

These days a lot of software providers are developing booking engines. And because of this, many booking engines now saturate the market. Sometimes it becomes difficult for hoteliers to decide which booking engine is good for them. Some booking engine providers in their effort to add many features to their booking engine now complicate the software. This complicated software now makes the booking process looks troublesome. Below we are going to discuss some features to look out for when deciding on a booking engine for your hotel.

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Benefits Guest Will Gain From Increase Hotel Direct Booking

These days hoteliers are looking for ways to increase their direct booking. Direct booking from guests will actually increase the revenue of the hotel. No wonder hoteliers are doing everything to make sure they increase their direct bookings. They optimize their website, integrate a good booking engine on their website and social media. They also make sure that the booking engine design integrates seamlessly with the design of their website. They use clear call-to-action buttons and good landing pages. All these actions help in increasing hotel direct booking. But another important way of increasing hotel direct booking is to communicate the benefit of your hotel direct booking to your guests. 

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Online Hotel Bookings vs. Offline Bookings

The internet has changed people’s behavior. The tourism industry has changed because of the internet. People use the internet to do their research online. Travelers use the internet to compare hotels and their prices when deciding on their vacation destinations. Thanks to the internet as the booking process is no longer the same as before.

Nowadays, booking can be made earlier than the date of the stay. No queuing up at the front desk is required. Travelers can choose which hotel they want to stay based on previous guests. People use the internet to read reviews about the place they want to go to and the things they want to do. Below we are going to discuss the difference between online hotel bookings and offline bookings.

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Smart Strategies To Increase Your Hotel Direct Booking

Before talking about ways to increase your property direct bookings, you must believe that direct booking will be beneficial to your hotel. There are many benefits of direct booking to a hotelier. The most obvious one being that it will bring in more profits to your hotel and of course, less dependent on OTAs. It is important to note that, there is no magical strategy that will automatically increase your direct bookings. But rather your direct bookings will come as a result of applying some strategies which we are going to discuss in this article.

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Hotel Online Payment: Understand Different Payment Methods

Your main goal as a hotelier is to fill your rooms and generate more profit. The Internet has a lot of information on how hotels can increase their direct bookings and how they can change their marketing strategy to attract more guests. However, the fact is, if your guests find it difficult to make a payment on your website then all your marketing effort would have been in vain.

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Therefore, it is important to understand that the conversion of your prospective guests begins from the moment they become site visitors to your booking page to your customers. This conversion is only considered complete when your site visitors have paid for their bookings. Hence, it is important for you not to lose your site visitors, especially during their payment stage. This article will discuss the understanding of different hotel online payment methods.

 

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Things You Should Consider When Choosing A B&B Reservation Software

bed and breakfast (commonly known as B & B) is a small-scale lodging establishment offering overnight accommodation and breakfast. As a hotelier who owns a B & B hotel, you still need reservation software that suits your hotel’s smaller size. However, most bed and breakfast owners still use excel and reservation books to manage their guests. They do not look for the importance of investing in reservation software, probably because they think their hotel business is small. 

 

But there are advantages to investing in reservation software for a bed and breakfast. It will make their life easier and help them to better manage their guests. It will also increase their direct booking, therefore, increasing their revenue which is the main objective of every hotel owner. Next, we will discuss some things that you should consider when choosing a hotel bed and breakfast reservation software.

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How To Get Guests To Book Direct

Guests are becoming willing to book directly from hotel websites and social media pages. Due to the high use of gadgets which includes mobile devices, tablets, laptops, etc. Guests now prefer to do their searches online before booking a room. These searches usually take them to hotel websites, and if the hotels are doing their marketing right, they will be getting more direct bookings daily. Direct bookings are more beneficial to hotels compared to bookings from OTAs. This is because OTAs will usually charge high commissions, therefore, decreasing the revenue of the hotel. 

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This article will discuss some of the smart tips on how to get guests to book directly from your hotel.

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