How to Create a Hotel Booking Website?

The importance of a hotel booking website for a hospitality business is vast. It offers a hotel online visibility, opportunities to boost direct bookings, and directly offers special discounts, promotions, loyalty programs, subscription models, etc.  

However, the entire process and costs of website building might haunt a hotel for days. A hotel might require some technical expertise to build a website itself need to hire designers and a development team, or have to outsource the entire work.  

This could cost them time, money, and effort. And we would not like our hotelier friends to miss out on the benefits of a website just because of these inconveniences.  

Therefore, we have dedicated this blog to CreateWith, BOTSHOT smart website builder. We will tell you how to create a hotel booking website that is practical and attractive, within minutes!

Design a Stunning Hotel Website with BOTSHOT CreateWith

Building an appealing as well as a lucrative website with CreateWith is an easy task.  

Just follow the steps given below and viola, you have a hotel booking website to engage your guests and boost direct bookings.

Step 1: Log in to the CreateWith dashboard with the credentials provided to you.

Step 2: Connect Domain

The next step involves buying a custom website domain (such as example.com) and connecting it with BOTSHOT’s hotel website builder.

This domain name can be created using tools such as GoDaddy, Domain.com, etc. If not, we also provide you options with the ‘Search Domain’ button.

After you have created a domain name for your hotel’s website, you just have to enter it into the space provided and click on ‘Connect”.

Step 3: Edit Site/Setup Your Website

After creating a domain name for your hotel booking website, the next step is to edit or set up your website by clicking the ‘Edit Site’ button in the upper right corner of the CreateWith dashboard.

The entire hotel booking website could be created leveraging the ‘Drag-and-Drop’ functionality, and customizable hotel booking website templates, which makes the process super easy, and manageable with satisfactory results. 

This involves a lot of components such as content and image addition, SEO detailing, etc.

This is how the Edit Site window looks.

a) Choose and Customize Template 

CreateWith gives you the option to choose from multiple hotel booking website templates and customize them to match your brand theme and aesthetics. 

By clicking on ‘Manage Site Style’ in the down left corner, you can choose the typography for your website, the theme color, and the button style.

Use the drag-and-drop widgets for header, footer, and navigation, to make your website attractive for visitors to engage.

You can also add your hotel logo and change its size as per requirements.

b) Addition of informative pages

A hotel booking website is incomplete without information about the hotel, its services, and its amenities. You just have to choose the most suitable option, drag it to the canvas, and drop it there.  

So, the next step is to add the following pages from the ‘Base Section’ in the menu bar on the left corner of the ‘Edit Site’ window: 

• About Us – talk about the property
• Stats – offer some statistics for trust-building
• Properties – list other properties, if applicable 
• Amenities – add key amenities provided  
• Nearby Locations – add main attractions around the property 
• FAQs – address frequently asked questions about the property 
• Social Media integrations - add the social media accounts linked with the website  
• Contact Us – add contact details for visitors to get in touch with you 

c) Add visuals 

The next and one of the crucial steps is to add relevant images and/or videos to your hotel booking website for an engaging visitor experience. Suitable visual media adds credibility to your website, and brand image.  

Click on ‘Image Gallery’ under the ‘Additional Section’ in the menu bar to add images of your property, amenities, and services.  

d) Add SEO details

Search engine optimization or SEO is extremely important for any hotel booking website to appear at the top in search engine results.  

The main dashboard allows you to be visible on Google with the ‘Get found on Google’ button.

Furthermore, from the ‘Edit Site’ you can add a ‘Blogs’ page for content marketing. It is one of the topmost digital marketing strategies for 2024 for hotels.

e) Finally, publish the website 

After completing the above steps, you can explore the ‘Additional’ section in the menu bar to add extra pages as per requirements. These pages include: 

• Banners 
• Special Offers 
• Testimonials 
• Newsletter 
• Our Team  
• Pricing  

...and much more.

Post the addition of all the desired pages, you can preview if the website looks as intended. Afterwards, you can click on publish and create the perfect hotel website for your hotel. 

Both the ‘Preview’ and ‘Publish’ buttons are given in the upper right corner. 

To add the much-required booking engine, you can integrate our Smart Booking Solution with 100+ leading and secured payment gateways.  

The payment gateway integration can be through ‘Setup your payment method’ on the main dashboard by clicking on ‘Set Up Now’.

This hotel website builder allows you to create your hotel website at lightning–fast speed for quick and sustaining results. So, a hotel can focus completely on meeting guest expectations and leave the website building to us!

Choosing the Right Hotel Website Builder

With these simple steps, you can make an essential and profitable hotel booking website for a hotel of any size.  

BOTHSOT’s CreateWith allows you to make a smart and customized website that is SEO-ready. With seamless integrations, you can also add a bookings engine with secured payments and a live chat option for 24*7 customer support and data-driven insights and analytics.

Now this is what we call a hotel booking website that attracts visitors, engages them, and boosts revenue! Because in this digital era, from research for a trip to bookings to the last feedback, all things happen over the internet.  

So, don’t miss out on online visibility, direct bookings, and business.

Schedule a demo for creating a practical and smart website with BOTSHOT today!