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Brand-focused Google Ads management for hotels. We protect your brand searches from OTA hijacking and turn them into direct bookings at a fraction of the commission cost.

Reduce your OTA commissions with paid search

The hospitality sector has seen significant changes over the years. Many hotels have paused their PPC advertising, finding full-service hotel PPC agencies too expensive. Even the OTAs faced challenges with reduced PPC budgets. Not only is our paid search service for hotels more affordable than ever, but we have also introduced the ability to pay as you go. Now, it is easy for you to scale PPC management costs up when business is busy, and down (or off) when things are quieter.

We have been managing full-service Google Ads for hotels in hundreds of countries across the globe since 2012, serving luxury hotels, resorts, and travel operators. Previously, this was done through London and overseas PPC agencies, but now you can purchase hotel PPC management directly from PPC for Hotels without the agency mark-ups.

We have consistently provided a streamlined PPC service at a significantly reduced cost. Currently, we are managing hotel PPC for several five-star (and some four-star) hotels, and a chain of budget hotels in the Far East. These are all delivering a return on ad spend (RoAS) of between 1,000% and 3,000%, ensuring that hotel PPC remains highly cost-effective. Even those figures can be improved for hotels that have a good loyalty offer.

Our luxury hotels have secured single bookings worth tens of thousands of pounds (thank you Saudi Arabia) — imagine the significant OTA commission savings for those transactions!

Your hotel can benefit from a similar streamlined PPC service. We focus on proven campaigns with low channel costs, avoiding unnecessary changes, and providing low-maintenance reporting. We have pared down the full-service Google Ads for Hotels offering to the bare essentials, at a price that makes it accessible to any hotel.

What do you get?

Google hotel PPC management that focuses on brand protection to combat the OTAs advertising on your brand searches, like Booking.com, plus fully transparent reporting in a live dashboard, plus integration with your Google Analytics.

The OTAs are great for reaching a wider audience, but not so great when they squat on your brand (known as hotel brand jacking), take 15% or more of your booking revenue, and even encourage your brand customers to book with alternative hotels.

Who is PPC for Hotels for?

Hotels with large OTA costs, in particular luxury hotels anywhere in the world. Hotels that are suffering from OTA brand jacking.

Why should you buy it?

If you are paying thousands and tens of thousands of pounds (we are in the UK), dollars, or euros to the OTAs, it is time to claw some of that back with a hotel PPC system that easily pays for itself. Thai Baht is another big currency for us, but we will take most currencies!

How much is it?

Request a quote to discuss pricing. Every hotel is different, so we tailor our proposal to your property, your traffic, and your OTA exposure. Note that you will also be charged by Google for the PPC click costs. The key for us is to keep channel costs to somewhere between 5% and 12% (you set the target), compared to an OTA channel cost of 15% or more.

Is it for you?

If you want a low-cost, no-frills expert hotel PPC management system that works, this is for you. The price you start with is the price you will always pay. No unexpected price increases.

† PPC for Hotels works mainly with hotels and resorts, but we can also work with agencies and affiliates.

Double your direct revenue by using PPC for Hotels

Through an OTA

£6,667

in revenue for every £1,000 you pay Booking.com in commission. A definition of 15% commission.

Through PPC for Hotels

£13,333

in direct bookings for every £1,000 spent using PPC for Hotels. Average returns from luxury hotels running the PPC for Hotels system.

Some of our campaigns achieve over 7,000% return on ad spend (RoAS). That is less than 1.5% cost of sales or one tenth what Booking.com charges.

Our process

01

Request a quote

Tell us about your hotel and we will come back with a tailored proposal and pricing.

02

We configure your campaigns

Brand protection campaigns set up and tuned for your hotel, your market, and your target channel cost.

03

Connect your Google Analytics

It is easy and we will tell you how.

04

Monitor your dashboards and reports

Track the channel cost for your direct bookings and compare with your OTA commission fees (typically 15% or more).

Buy with confidence: 30-day money-back guarantee

Satisfaction guaranteed. You have 30 days to refund your management fee for any reason. Low channel costs, or your money back. Tried and tested since 2012 on luxury hotels. Find out more on the about us page.

† Money-back refund applies to PPC management costs only, not Google spend.

What our clients say

★★★★★
"Within two months our direct bookings increased noticeably. The dashboard makes it very easy to see the return compared with what we were paying the OTAs."
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M. Hassan
Revenue Manager, Five-star hotel, London
★★★★★
"We had no idea Booking.com was advertising on our hotel name until PPC for Hotels showed us. The brand protection campaigns stopped it immediately."
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S. Chambers
General Manager, Boutique hotel, Cotswolds
★★★★★
"The reporting is genuinely transparent. We can see exactly what every click costs and how it compares to our OTA commission. The numbers speak for themselves."
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J. Patel
Director of Sales, Hotel group, Far East
★★★★★
"A single booking from a Gulf guest covered six months of management fees. The ROI on luxury hotels is extraordinary when you have the right campaigns running."
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R. Lawson
Owner, Luxury resort, Mediterranean
★★★★★
"We tried managing Google Ads ourselves and wasted thousands. PPC for Hotels set it up properly in a fraction of the time and the channel cost dropped to under 8%."
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E. Whitmore
Operations Manager, City hotel, Edinburgh

Our mission

To provide simple-to-understand, brand-focused hotel PPC management, at the lowest possible cost, achieving a channel cost much lower than the OTAs.

Our roadmap

We sync our Google Ads with Microsoft Advertising (Bing Ads). This is available as an optional upgrade to complement your Google advertising.

And finally, to sweeten the deal

We include a 30-day money-back guarantee, zero set-up fees, and no minimum contract.

You will also receive a Google credit to your account in month two or three (dependent on territory and subject to availability and Google terms). This is currently worth $500 in the US.

"Our luxury hotels have secured single bookings worth tens of thousands of pounds — thanks to our esteemed guests from the Gulf region."

PPC for Hotels

Coming soon

The Google Ads Handbook for Luxury Hotels

Everything we have learned running Google Ads for luxury hotels since 2012, distilled into a practical handbook. Brand protection strategy, campaign structure, bidding approaches, landing page principles, and the metrics that actually matter.

Join the waiting list and we will let you know when it is available. We will also share useful hotel PPC insights along the way.

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Hotel PPC FAQ

General Questions

Our service is primarily for Google Search Ads — these ads appear at the top of Google search results on the left of the search page. Google's metasearch ads appear on the right of the search page and allow price comparison with the OTAs. This type of ad is on our upgrade roadmap. Remarketing ads can also be included depending on your requirements.
Remarketing can be included in your service. We will discuss your requirements and recommend the best approach when we prepare your quotation.
Full SEO is not included in our PPC service. However, our included hotel landing page guidelines contain some hotel SEO recommendations. Our team includes hotel SEO expertise that is available on a consultancy basis only — please ask for details.
We run ads on Microsoft Advertising (Bing Ads) for hotels. Bing Ads are available as an optional upgrade to complement your Google Ads campaigns.
Yes, we offer a no-quibble 30-day money-back guarantee. Google media spend (click costs) is not refundable. However, Google spend will be transparent to you. This means if you do not like the clicks you are paying for, you can stop the account and receive a refund for your management fee.
The Google spend: the click costs. You have to pay Google's click fees, and this is non-refundable.
You can adjust your service at any time. Just give us a call, contact us on live chat, or send a request via email if we are out of office hours. Our contact details are on the about us page.
You should already be tracking your booking engine revenues in Google Analytics. If you are, we will use revenue data in our reports. We will not work on your booking engine ourselves, but may be able to recommend third-party assistance if you need it.
There are some fair limitations to this service. But there is no big surprise waiting to trap you. We are an established PPC company and we have based this service on years of experience running PPC accounts for luxury hotels. Our ongoing costs are kept low due to the level of automation we employ. Most of our costs are the up-front set-up costs, and these are covered by the management fee.
One thing that goes wrong from time to time is the attribution of revenue. In our experience, this can often happen when a new pop-up is added to the website, for example. We have seen circumstances where all online sales are attributed to the pop-up itself, or in other cases sales have been attributed to "not set" or "direct". We will discuss tracking requirements and support options as part of your quotation.
This service is managed SaaS. We manage your ad campaigns using our tools. There is a human element to the service. The software part is provided mainly by Google Ads and Google Analytics. The human part of the service is the set-up, monitoring, and tuning.

Who is this hotel PPC service for?

We run Google Ads for hotels in every country that allows Google advertising. We have hotel customers around the world and invoice in UK pounds. Payment is via invoice and taxes will be calculated for your country.
Our hotel ads mainly target English-speaking travellers. However, bookings still come from all over the world. Other languages can be supported depending on your requirements. It is common to target English plus the hotel's native language. The hotel website landing pages must support the language used in the ads.
If your hotel has high OTA costs to pay every month, this service should be very profitable for you, providing you follow our landing page recommendations.
If the hotels in the hotel chain have high OTA costs, this service should be very profitable, providing our landing page recommendations are followed. Volume pricing is available for hotel chains — request a quote with details of your properties.
The PPC for Hotels service has been used successfully with several travel operators running ads for many resorts and luxury hotels around the world. Volume pricing is available for travel operators.
If your wedding venue has high OTA costs, this PPC service should be very profitable for you, providing you follow our landing page recommendations.
If your villa or chalet has high OTA costs, this PPC service should be very profitable for you, providing you follow our landing page recommendations.
If your hotel has high OTA costs to pay every month, this service should be very profitable for you, providing you follow our landing page recommendations.
This service is not suitable for advertising hotel restaurants. It is only for acquiring more direct hotel room bookings.
This service is only suitable for advertising room booking services. Other features may be mentioned in advertising, but cannot be the primary focus.
The PPC for Hotels white label / private label / reseller programme is closed to new members. By all means express your interest.
The affiliate scheme is on our roadmap. It is available by special arrangement before then. Please contact us to discuss.

Request a quote

Tell us about your hotel and we will come back to you with a proposal. No obligation, no hard sell.

We typically respond within one working day. No credit card required.

Stop paying OTA commissions on guests who already chose your hotel

If you are paying thousands to the OTAs, it is time to claw some of that back with a hotel PPC system that easily pays for itself.

The luxury hotel PPC service any hotel can afford