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Hotels & resorts

The direct booking
was worth answering.

A guest asking about availability directly is the most valuable enquiry a property receives, and it is lost the same way every time: the desk was busy.

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4 specialists lead this workflowOne connected journeyScope confirmed in discovery

Less chasing.
More clarity.

One workspace for enquiries, reservations and follow-ups, with every number reconciling across every view. Open a record to see what was actually decided.

Workspace Overview

Friday

The desk keeps the guests in front of it.

Enquiries90Across configured channels
Reservations52Confirmed and in the calendar
Follow-ups17Scheduled and waiting to send
Open handoffs26 resolved · 8 total
Enquiries & reservationsToday, by hour
08:00: 11 enquiries, 6 reservations. 12:00: 19 enquiries, 11 reservations. 16:00: 16 enquiries, 9 reservations. 19:00: 24 enquiries, 14 reservations. 22:00: 20 enquiries, 12 reservations
58%to reservation
Enquiry → reservation52 of 90 enquiries reached a reservation.
A few journeys in motionMost recent first

Where the capacity actually goes.

Hotels and resorts taking direct enquiries by phone, website and message alongside channel bookings.

The direct enquiry goes to a channel.

A guest who called and got voicemail books through an aggregator instead, and the property pays a commission for a booking it nearly had for nothing.

The desk is busiest when the phone is.

Check-in, check-out and the dinner rush are also when availability questions arrive, and the guest standing in front of you comes first.

Long-lead enquiries cross time zones.

Questions about dates, packages and transfers arrive from everywhere, mostly when the desk is closed.

One request.
Four moves.

One hotels and resorts journey, end to end. Your configuration decides the sequence, the rules and the point a person takes over.

Answer the enquiry

Availability, package and facility questions are answered from the information your property has published, at any hour.

Capture what the stay needs

Dates, party size, room preference and any requirement are captured so the booking conversation starts complete.

Coordinate the reservation

The request is written to your connected reservation system, or handed to the desk with everything attached where a person is required.

Follow up before arrival

Approved pre-arrival contact is scheduled, and stops when the guest replies or your team takes it on.

In focus · Dubai hospitality

A fuller house. The same front desk behind it.

Dubai hotels ran at 80.7 per cent average occupancy in 2025, up from 78.2 the year before, across an inventory of 154,264 rooms in 827 establishments. Every one of those stays began as an enquiry, and the busiest hour on the floor is the busiest hour on the phone.

Average occupancy80.7%

Dubai hotels in 2025, from 78.2% in 2024

Hotel rooms154,264

Across 827 establishments at the end of 2025

Occupied room nights44.85m

In 2025, from 43.03m in 2024

Where your people take over

Rate negotiation, upgrades, comps and any service recovery go to your duty manager with the booking and the conversation attached.

The human boundary

Questions hotels and resorts ask.

Will it quote a rate?

It can share the rates you have published. Anything outside your published list, including negotiation, upgrades and goodwill, goes to your duty manager.

Does it write to our reservation system?

Where that system is supported and connected during scoping. Which systems are supported is confirmed then rather than assumed here.

See it working for a hotel or resort like yours.

Bring the enquiries you are missing today. We will map the workflow around them with you, before anything is configured.

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