Boutique resort group · Hotels / resorts

61% of bookings now direct — reclaimed from OTAs with intent SEO

Location and experience pages built for booking intent cut OTA commission dependence in under a year.

+366% Monthly organic traffic
46 Links built
12 Months time span

Where they started

Three beautiful properties fully hostage to OTA listings: 78% of bookings paid a commission, and the brand’s own site ranked below aggregators for its own name + destination terms.

What we did

  • Built destination + experience pages matching booking-intent queries.
  • Earned travel-press links with a seasonal data story on quiet-season travel.
  • Marked up rooms and offers with schema so rich results carried price direct.

The compounding is visible below — and unlike OTA placement, it doesn’t rent.

Organic traffic 12 months
29k month 1 month 12

The results

  • Direct bookings share up from 22% to 61%

  • Top-3 for 'boutique resort [destination]' across all three properties

  • OTA commission savings paid for the entire engagement by month 8

“Every booking that moves from an OTA to direct is a 18% margin swing. SEO here isn't marketing — it's unit economics.”

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