In recent years, it has become more and more common to booking hotel nights through internet portals. Before, the most normal thing to do was to call the accommodation itself and make reservations with them. Like everything else, habits change and perhaps the most convenient for the client is to opt for a platform that has all the options. But is it the most effective?
From Hotelgest we want to help you plan your sales strategy so that you have everything clear. If you want to learn more about usWe will be happy to assist you and advise you on any questions you may have. Now, we are going to make a small experiment with five different hotels, making the reservations through specialized portals and calling afterwards.
Test: 5 reservations in hotels and 5 reservations through portals
In order to do things properly and to have an informed opinion, we wanted to put on our overalls. When booking through the portals, we have established the following criteriaFrom December 3 to 9 (6 nights), a double room with bed and breakfast. On phone call, same request.
When it comes to pricing here, we wanted to hide the names of the hotelsthus avoiding reserved information. Of course, you can imagine that these are places of high winter season and a lot of affluence. Let's go to the results of these reservations:
HOTEL A
- Through portals: 1,136 euros
- Telephone reservation: 1,135 euros
HOTEL B
- Through portals: 875 euros
- Telephone reservation: 875 euros
HOTEL C
- Through portals: 1.040 euros
- Telephone reserve: 1,048 euros
HOTEL D
- Through portals: 566 euros
- Telephone reservation: 525 euros
HOTEL E
- Through portals: 862 euros
- Telephone reservation: 1,200 euros
Conclusions
As we can see, prices tend to be more or less similarwith only a few euros difference in favor of one or the other option. For the E hotel we have been very surprised, since there is a jump of more than 300 euros for the same reservation. It is true that the portals usually have great discounts thanks to their package deals, but we believe that this is exaggerated.
How Hotelgest helps you in the management of your hotel
When it comes to managing reservations, both in your own hotel and on dedicated portals, it is important to have tools that make your life easier. So it is with Hotelgest, which fulfills several functions that will improve your productivity and profitability.
Cost reduction
Through this software, you will be able to automate up to 90% of your daily tasks. This way, you will be able to dedicate a great part of your time to other equally important tasks. From the simplest to the most complete actions, you can leave them in the hands of Hotelgest.
A system in the cloud
Thanks to the system cloud that our management software offers (both for reservations and for dozens of other tasks), there will be no risk of losing your data. Everything will be stored in the cloud and you won't have to worry about what happens on your computer.
Open API with full integration
Our API (Application Programming Interface) is open and available to any developer. This makes it much easier to integrate its operation with other platforms and applicationsand you will have everything you need in one place.
Automated payments for reservations
With our system you will be able to comply with the PSD2 standard without any problem.. You will only have to configure the system to issue a charge order at the moment you decide, and it will be done automatically. You will only have to prepare the room for the new guests.
Customer segmentation
Thanks to the Hotelgest PMS system, you will have at your fingertips the possibility of creating segments according to the interest of one type of customer or another. Individuals, groups, companies, repeaters, portals... Whatever you need to create, it will be applied automatically.
Management of several accommodations
If you have several hotels, apartments or vacation homeswill not be an inconvenience. You will be able to manage reservations and everything else from our platform, without the need to change user. You will have at your disposal different POS, several accounting lines and everything necessary for the proper functioning.
