Hospitality marketing agency
Own the guest, not just the stay
Booking platforms fill rooms and keep the relationship. Direct booking marketing keeps the rate, the guest record, and the second visit.
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- Years experience
- 20+
- Ad spend managed
- $98M+
- Hospitality client per county
- 1
client-reported
client-reported, career total
standing exclusivity policy
The commission trap
You are renting your own guests back
Booking platforms are excellent at what they do. They put your property in front of travelers you would never reach, they handle the transaction, and they take a meaningful percentage of every reservation for it.
The commission is the visible cost. The invisible one is bigger: the platform keeps the guest record, owns the follow-up, and gets credit for the relationship. When that traveler returns to your city, they open the app again rather than your website, and you pay to acquire the same person twice.
The goal is not to abandon those channels. It is to shift a meaningful share of demand into a path you control, so the guests who already know your property come straight to you and the platforms handle genuine discovery.
Terms and outcomes
What property operators get from the anti-agency
Built for a business with fixed costs, expiring inventory, and a commission bill that never stops growing.
Commission stays with you
Every booking moved into your own channel keeps the full rate instead of handing a percentage to a platform that already has the guest.
Flat fee, whatever the season
No % of ad spend. Ever. Scale into your peak months without your management cost scaling with the budget.
The guest record is yours
Direct bookings build an email list, a repeat-stay path, and a database you own rather than one you rent by the reservation.
Spend aimed at soft dates
Budget concentrated on shoulder season, midweek gaps, and the room types that lag rather than on weekends that sell themselves.
One hospitality client per county
Guaranteed geo & market exclusivity. The property competing for the same travelers cannot hire the same team.
No contracts
Cancel anytime and keep the website, booking data, ad accounts, and rankings. We earn the relationship every month.
What is included
The direct booking system
Six connected programs aimed at occupancy, rate integrity, and a guest list you actually own.
Conversion website
Fast, mobile-first, with a booking flow that does not lose people between the room photos and the confirmation. From $5,000, and you own it.
- Booking engine integration
- Rate parity messaging
- Speed budget
Local and brand search
Own your property name and your location searches, because a traveler searching your brand should never land on a platform listing first.
- Brand term defense
- Google Business Profile
- Local visibility
Paid search and social
Campaigns paced to your booking window and season, with click-fraud protection so competitors cannot drain a peak-month budget.
- Seasonal pacing
- Remarketing
- Fraud protection
Reviews and reputation
Review scores set what you can charge. A steady flow of recent reviews and real responses protects both occupancy and rate.
- Review requests
- Response management
Group and corporate demand
Meetings, weddings, and corporate stays fill the midweek and shoulder dates that leisure travel leaves empty.
- Group landing pages
- RFP capture
Tracking and reporting
Attribution reported in occupancy, direct booking share, and cost per reservation rather than sessions and impressions.
- Booking attribution
- Weekly reporting
The process
From commission dependency to direct demand
Four steps, then a weekly rhythm that follows the dates still needing help.
01 /
Size the commission leak
What share of revenue currently arrives through platforms, and what a five or ten point shift toward direct would be worth annually.
02 /
Map the demand calendar
Which dates sell themselves, which get discounted out of fear, and where a filled room is worth the most to you.
03 /
Build the direct path
Website, booking flow, brand search defense, and campaigns launched together so the direct option is genuinely easier than the app.
04 /
Report on occupancy
Weekly numbers on direct share, filled nights, and cost per reservation, with budget shifting toward the dates still open.
What clients say
Operators who took back the calendar
Hospitality and events clients from our roster, quoted verbatim. Every metric client-reported.
2xBusiness growth / client-reported
“ROI Vault did our logo, website, everything. We doubled our business. I had to tell him to pause the ads.”
Chef Billy G.Owner, Billy G Catering3Consecutive years / Inc. lists
“Alfonso and ROI Vault rebuilt the entire marketing process while juggling over 30 events a year. We continuously broke records, set new ones, and then broke them again. Year over year growth climbing to Inc. 500's for the last 3 consecutive years.”
Tony AlbeloChief Executive Officer, SWARM Inc. (Inc. 5000)35k+Followers / 4 locations
“We opened up our website and insta together on our family dinner table with Alfonso. From just an idea and a dream we grew to 4 locations and now have over 35k followers. 10/10 I can't recommend him enough.”
Jay CruzOwner, Tacos & TattoosCase study
Demand that outran the kitchen
Billy G Catering
Appointment and event-driven food service
- Business growth
- 2x
- Ads, at the owner's request
- Paused
client-reported
demand outran capacity, client-reported
The problem
An owner-operated hospitality business with its brand, website, and advertising handled separately by different people. Inquiry volume moved unpredictably and nothing in the reporting explained which part was responsible.
What we did
ROI Vault took the whole thing over: brand identity, website, and the advertising around them, run as one program rather than three disconnected engagements.
The outcome
The owner reports the business doubled, and asked us to pause advertising because bookings had outrun what the operation could serve. Food service rather than lodging, but the constraint is the one every hospitality operator recognizes: capacity is fixed and demand has to be paced against it.
FAQ
Direct booking questions operators ask
No, and anyone who says otherwise is selling something. Platforms reach travelers who will never find you directly. The goal is shifting the guests who already know your property into a channel you own, not abandoning genuine discovery.
Often yes, and the fix is usually unglamorous. Many properties lose direct bookings to a slow site, a clumsy booking engine, or a rate that looks worse than the app. Fixing the path matters more than adding campaigns on top of it.
Rarely. Platforms bid on your brand name and intercept travelers who were already coming to you. Defending that term usually returns more than almost any other line in the budget, because the intent is already at its peak.
By selling something other than a discount. Packages, midweek value, local experiences, and group business fill soft dates without training guests to wait for a price drop. Discounting is the fastest option and the most expensive one long term.
Substantially. Review score is one of the few things a traveler uses to justify a higher rate against a cheaper alternative. Recent reviews and visible responses do more for rate integrity than most rate strategy work.
It can support it, though the sale is relationship driven. Dedicated group pages, clear capacity and capability information, and an easy RFP path make you findable and easy to shortlist. The close still happens between people.
Paid campaigns and brand term defense can produce direct reservations within days. Meaningful shifts in direct share usually take a season, because you are changing how repeat guests behave, not just buying traffic.
$3,495 per month flat, the same as every client, plus websites from $5,000. Your ad budget goes directly to the platforms with a $5,000 per month realistic floor. Every figure is public on our pricing page.
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SEO For Hospitality Businesses
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Hospitality, Events And Travel
Every category in this silo under one roof.
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Pricing
Published pricing: $3,495 per month flat, no percentage of ad spend.
Exclusivity is first come, first served
Keep the rate and the relationship
One hospitality client per county. No % of ad spend. Ever. No contracts. Cancel anytime.
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