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Importance of websites
You do need a good looking, affordable website for your hotel. A hotel just can't do without. Hotel websites will be scraped for content, prices etc. by verticals like
- Booking.com
- Agoda.com
- Expedia.com
- [https://uk.hotels.com/ Hotels.com}
Most websites consist of a template, which is configures so that it is tailored to suit your hotel by introducing your corporate identity elements, like your logo, color schemes, fonts, images and textual content. This allows us to design full-featured and affordable responsive websites quickly and efficiently.
Availability, real-time booking upgrades - self service are elements which are very much needed as well. So in integration with the CRS (central reservation system) of your hotel in inevitable.
Free sites
As for now, start of with one of the free websites underneath. Make sure all your social media and website are interlinked in a logical way. And be in consistent in the way you present your hotel.
The majority of websites by now, is made in templates from WordPress. Building in additional elements, a good link to your CRS etc. is much more complicated and you do not have to do that right now :-). For now do not worry to much about technical issues with your possible affiliates or re-sellers. In your decisions come back to this, but in the technics you do not have to take this into account.
Working with a adjusted template is fine for your hotel, so here some tips to make free websites in an easy way:
- http://nl.wix.com/
- http://www.webnode.nl/
- http://www.jouwweb.nl/
- or any other website offering these services.
Take care of the IP rights on material you are using. On the page Photos_and_videos you will find some free materials to use. Any content on the Emerald Forest Hotel is available under Creative Commons, so you can use it. On the Flickr account Emerald Forest Hotel there is over 4.000 pictures available.
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