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Insights on hotel commercial integrity, direct booking strategy, and website optimisation.
What a Hotel Website Audit Catches Before It Costs You Bookings
A hotel website can be beautiful and still lose bookings. A website audit checks the things a redesign skips: phone speed, booking-path friction, rate integrity against the OTAs, the machine-readable layer, trust signals and whether AI can read you. Six checks, what passing looks like, and what each fail costs.
The 12 Things a Hotel Mystery Shop Should Check in 2026
Twelve things a hotel mystery shop should check in 2026, from whether ChatGPT recommends you to whether a guest can finish a booking on their phone. What to check, what passing looks like, and what failure costs.
The Pre-Season Hotel Website Audit: 12 Checks Before Summer
Summer demand builds in spring. This is a twelve-point hotel website audit a marketing team can run themselves in an afternoon, across the three things a guest needs from a hotel website: to find it, trust it, and book it without friction.
What a Digital Mystery Shop Actually Checks on Your Hotel
Hotels pay for a mystery shopper to grade the stay. Almost nobody checks the website, booking engine, OTA listings and Google profile where the booking is decided. Here is what a digital mystery shop walks, surface by surface.
Hotel Mystery Shopping in 2026: Why Physical Audits Are No Longer Enough
Physical mystery shopping still matters, but it only evaluates the guests who arrive. In 2026, hotels also need to audit the digital journey that decides whether the booking happens at all.