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Digital Marketing — Harborview Hospitality

Direct bookings over marketplace commission

Local SEO and lifecycle email that shifted 40% of bookings away from third-party platforms.

+40%

Direct bookings

R2.4m

Commission recovered

34%

Email revenue share

Client goal

Recover margin lost to marketplace commissions across six properties.

The challenge

Every property competed with its own marketplace listing and lost 18% of every booking to commission.

Our solution

We rebuilt local search presence per property, launched a lifecycle email programme for past guests, and made the direct booking path faster than the marketplace alternative.

Process

  1. Property-level local SEO and listing hygiene
  2. Booking funnel conversion audit
  3. Lifecycle email programme for 41,000 past guests
  4. Rate-parity and direct-benefit messaging

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