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Google Ads for Hotels

Google Ads for hotels begins by defending your own name, because booking sites bid on it and earn a commission on guests who were already looking for you.

Guests who type your name have already chosen you, so winning their booking back costs far less than buying a new guest.

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Hotel manager planning direct bookings around the guest experience and occupancy goals

Online challenges for hotels

The biggest leak is when people ready to book and people casually comparing share the same campaigns, ad text and budget rules.

Direct bookings compete with the big booking sites

Hotels lose margin when people who find you online do not book direct.

  • A weak path to booking direct makes you rely more on booking sites that take a commission.
  • Pages built around what each guest is looking for protect the income you keep.

Guests search differently by reason for the stay and how far ahead they book

Business, leisure and event travellers value different things.

  • One general offer page attracts guests the offer does not suit.
  • Separate paths help fill more rooms and give guests more confidence when they book.

Adverts quote a rate the booking engine never shows

An advert says from a certain price, and the engine opens on a dearer room or on dates when that price is gone.

  • The guest who clicked for that price leaves at once, and the click is paid for all the same.
  • Repeated often enough, it teaches people that the hotel's own adverts cannot be trusted.

Google Ads approach for hotels

For hotels, we build Google Ads around the moments when guests decide to book: comparison kept apart from people ready to book, and pages behind the ads that calm doubts early.

Your own name first: the cheapest booking to win back

When a guest searches for the hotel by name, booking sites often advertise above your own result and take the reservation with a commission.

  • A small campaign on your name shows the official site next to them, with the direct rate and what booking direct includes, such as a later check-out or free parking.
  • We check what the portals are allowed to do under your contracts with them, because some agreements restrict bidding on the hotel name and others do not.

Campaigns by reason to travel, not one for the word hotel

The bare word hotel plus a city is the dearest click there is and the one where portals outspend everyone.

  • We advertise the stays where you are a real answer: a wedding with rooms for the guests, a conference for a set number of people, a spa weekend, a night before an early flight.
  • Each advert leads to the page for that stay with dates, what is included and the booking engine opened on the right rate, never to the home page.

Bookings counted through the booking engine

A click that leaves for a booking system on another address is usually where measurement stops.

  • We connect the engine so that a completed reservation and its value come back to the campaign that started it, and the budget follows revenue instead of clicks.
  • Group and event enquiries are counted separately, as forms and calls, since one wedding outweighs many single nights and takes far longer to confirm.

Google Ads for hotels in Cyprus: a budget that follows the season

Demand for a hotel in Cyprus moves with the calendar and with the country the guest flies from. A campaign that spends evenly all year pays for clicks in months when nobody books, and runs short when the summer is being planned.

We split campaigns by country and language, and move the budget ahead of each booking window. We work from Paphos, the town where many of those guests land.

The same service for businesses in any trade: Google Ads in Paphos.

Google Ads process for hotels

01

Searches worth paying for

We separate the searches that bring customers from those that only cost money.

02

Campaign build

We split the campaigns by service or offer and connect call, form and booking tracking before launch. For hotels, the budget is planned against the occupancy forecast, so spend rises for dates that are still empty and stops for nights already full.

03

Landing pages

Each advert opens a page about what it promised, with the way to call or book in view.

04

Tuning

In the first weeks we move the budget towards the searches and adverts that bring enquiries, and switch off the rest.

Price: Google Ads for hotels costs €350 to set up and from €250 a month to manage, for ad budgets up to about €800 a month, plus VAT, three-month minimum. You pay Google directly; larger budgets are quoted.

Booking a hotel stay: choosing by the purpose of the trip, picking a room and booking direct

How we measure results for hotels

We report the revenue each campaign brought against its spend, and which nights it filled, so you can see whether the money went to dates that needed guests.

Questions about Google Ads for hotels

Plain answers about Google Ads, written for hotels.

First enquiries and bookings can come within days of the start, mostly from guests who already know the hotel by name.

  • Tuning the account takes the first weeks, while we learn which stays pay for their clicks.
  • Campaigns for weddings and conferences show later, because those guests ask for an offer first and decide after a visit.

Because the portals pay for it too, and their advert appears above your free result.

  • A guest who clicks there books the same room, and you pay a commission that is far more than the click would have cost.
  • Where your contracts allow it, an advert on your own name is usually the first thing we set up.

Not on the broadest searches, and we do not try.

  • A hotel has a fair chance where the search is specific and the portal's answer is a long list: a venue for a company event, a hotel with a pool that is open in winter, rooms beside a particular hospital or stadium.
  • There the click is cheaper and the guest is closer to a decision.

Access to the booking engine so reservations can be counted, the direct rate and what it includes, and the list of stays you most want to fill.

  • We also ask which nights of the week are hardest to sell and how many group enquiries the sales office can answer properly.
  • Photos and wording come from your site, corrected where they promise more than a room delivers.

General questions about Google Ads, the same for every trade, are in our FAQ.

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