How to Increase your Direct Hotel Bookings in 2020: Tips, Tactics, Expertise from Sebastian Küchler

An interview with Sebastian Küchler, a Swiss Hospitality Solutions consultant who shares his know-know and expertise on implementing a smart direct booking strategy at hotels.
In this new AYHT video, Sebastian Küchler talks about the most important aspects, key steps and tools involved when implementing, optimizing and maximizing a direct hotel booking strategy. He explains the best tips and how to avoid the most common mistakes when improving a direct booking strategy.
He mentions the main systems and booking tools needed: a website and a booking engine integrated with PMS using a channel manager. He also details the meaning of online key search terms and meta-search integration as well as the best way to attract the right visitors to your website in order to convert them into direct guests. He further explains the key concept of best price available for your website, the role of OTAs in the online booking game and why both room and price level aspects should be considered in any smart direct booking strategy implementation.
He also explores the creativity challenge when designing the most suitable direct booker incentives for your guests in accordance with your own hotel model.  
QUESTIONS:
What is a direct booking strategy?
Why should a hotel have a direct booking strategy?
Why is it not a good idea for hotels to just give all sales and marketing responsibilities over to OTAs?
What tools are needed to enable direct booking?
How does META search work?
What is your focus when implementing a direct booking strategy with a hotel?
What incentives can I offer to guests without lowering the price?
What is your experience with Pay-Per-Click advertisement?
What can we learn from OTAs?
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Hotel-Spider is a cloud-based online distribution platform with a deep-rooted presence in the hotel technology market. We empower hospitality distribution as we imagine, develop and deploy customer-driven software solutions. Our goal is, to simplify the complex distribution landscape through our systems. Our Hotel-Spider Hospitality Distribution Platform includes booking engine, metasearch (Google, Trivago, Tripadvisor), central reservation system, PMS connectivity, and channel manager. Trust your Swiss specialists to optimize your online sales with an integrated and fully automated approach.
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[@Mondosol]

awesome

[@HotelSpider]

@Mondolsol: thank you!

[@thrillingtraveller]

what is OTA

[@HotelSpider]

Dear The Wanderlust Bites , OTA stands for Online Travel Agency and is referring to online sales platforms that help Hotels to sell their rooms such as Booking.com, Expedia, Airbnb etc.

[@ImranHossain-tm1pr]

I want to work with you. I have a good idea about renting .. I used to work at Roomstar Side. If you can give me a link and an account where I can see my lead, then hopefully I can give you a good job sir ❤️

[@HotelSpider]

Dear Imran, thank you for reaching out. feel free to send us an email to [e-mail] and we can continue the conversation by email.

[@ImranHossain-tm1pr]

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[@seleldjdfmn221]

Awesome vid. Never give up. Oh, And Happy Repeat day! xD

[@HotelSpider]

Thank you! Cheers :)