Hotel Advertising Agency
More direct revenue.
More control.
We manage paid search, metasearch, paid social, display, and AI advertising for hotels. We help hotel teams reach travelers, increase direct bookings, and grow website revenue.
Who We Work With
Independent hotels, resorts,
and hotel groups.
More than 100 hotel clients have trusted us to help build demand and grow direct revenue. Our experience spans one of a kind properties, resorts, and growing portfolios.
Selected Hotel Work
Where strategy becomes direct revenue.
Selected hotel partnerships show how thoughtful advertising, close collaboration, and careful optimization can strengthen direct bookings.
01
Forth Atlanta
+214% · Advertising revenue
A launch advertising strategy built to establish visibility, capture demand, and grow direct bookings from opening.
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02
The Ivy Hotel
+42% · Paid media revenue
Paid media refined around the hotel’s luxury positioning and high intent travelers to grow direct bookings in Baltimore.
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03
The Carnegie Hotel
21x ROAS · Metasearch +30%
Paid search and metasearch shaped around the hotel’s New York market, booking priorities, and direct revenue goals.
Read more→What We Do
Hotel advertising across the booking journey.
We manage paid media around how guests discover, compare, and book. Each channel has a role tied to demand, booking activity, and revenue.
Paid Search
Reach guests when they search for your hotel, destination, offers, and reasons to stay. Google Ads Microsoft AdvertisingPaid Social
Build interest before the final search, then reconnect with travelers who have shown real interest in the property. Instagram Facebook Meta AudienceMetasearch Advertising
Keep the hotel’s direct rate visible while travelers compare live prices and availability across booking options. Google Hotel Ads Tripadvisor Trivago KayakDisplay & Retargeting
Reach new audiences. Reconnect with travelers who visited the hotel website, explored an offer, or showed interest in the destination. Google Display Meta Programmatic MediaVideo Advertising
Help travelers picture the property, destination, and stay before they compare rates and choose where to book. YouTube Google VideoAI Advertising
Reach travelers as they explore options, compare hotels, and make decisions through ChatGPT Ads and other emerging AI advertising channels. ChatGPTHotel knowledge shapes every media decision.
Luxury Hotels
Luxury demand depends on more than reach. We protect rate and brand perception, reach high value guests, and measure media against booking value and direct revenue, not inexpensive clicks.
Boutique and Lifestyle Hotels
Distinctive hotels compete through their story, design, neighborhood, and guest experience. We turn those differences into search, social, and retargeting campaigns that build interest and capture direct demand.
Resorts and Destination Hotels
Seasonality, feeder markets, packages, and longer booking windows shape the plan. We align paid search, metasearch, social, and video with the moments when guests dream, compare, and book.
Branded and Franchise Hotels
The property needs new demand without paying again for business the brand already creates. We work within brand rules and show what property level media adds.
Hotel Groups and Management Companies
Every hotel receives a strategy based on its market, stage, guests, and revenue priorities. Leadership receives consistent measurement, reporting, and portfolio oversight.
The Partnership
Senior direction. Personal attention.
Your hotel deserves more than campaign management and another report. A senior strategist stays close to the work, understands how the property earns revenue, and directs every investment around the hotel’s commercial priorities.
Leadership That Stays Involved
Your senior strategist remains close from the first conversation through every performance review.
Know the Property
We learn the hotel, market, guests, booking patterns, and revenue priorities before recommending where to invest.
Build With Purpose
We shape the channel mix, campaigns, creative, landing pages, and measurement around clear commercial goals.
Manage Closely
We test deliberately and move investment toward opportunities that create profitable direct demand.
Make Performance Clear
We explain what changed, why it matters, and what we recommend next.
Marina Zurano
VP of Advertising, Gourmet Marketing
Hospitality Expertise
“Your hotel’s commercial goals lead every campaign. We use each advertising platform where it works best to create demand, support the booking journey, and grow direct revenue.”
We work closely with ownership, revenue, sales, and marketing to understand what the hotel needs to move. Need periods, booking windows, rates, offers, and guest behavior shape the media mix and how success is measured.
Client Relationships
Trusted by hotel teams.
Hotels choose us for the work and stay for the partnership. They get direct access to senior strategists, personal attention, deep hotel expertise, and a team accountable for commercial performance.
“We view Gourmet as an extension to our organization and truly feel that they are fully invested in our success. The personalized attention is unmatched.
Daniel Cruz
President, Method Co. Hospitality Group
“The Gourmet team is simply fantastic. Working with them was a breeze, and they delivered outstanding advertising results.
Shannon Averill
General Manager, ROOST Apartment Hotel
Practical hotel advertising guides.
Guides for Hotel Teams
- 01 Agency Selection How to Choose Hotel Paid Advertising Services Choose the Right Advertising Partner
- 02 Paid Search How Hotels Waste Google Ads Budget Find the Common Budget Leaks
- 03 Direct Bookings How to Increase Direct Bookings With Paid Ads Read the Direct Booking Guide
- 04 Metasearch What Is Hotel Metasearch Advertising? Understand Hotel Metasearch
- 05 Branded Search Why Branded PPC Matters for Hotels Protect Branded Search Demand
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Frequently Asked Questions
What hoteliers ask us first.
What does hotel advertising include?
Hotel advertising can include paid search across Google and Microsoft, Google Hotel Ads and other metasearch platforms, paid social, display and retargeting, video, and emerging AI advertising channels. We build the scope around each hotel. You can engage us for one channel, a selected group of channels, or a complete media program.
How do you decide which advertising channels a hotel should use?
We review historical performance, analytics, traffic sources, available market data, competitor activity, booking patterns, need periods, and revenue goals. We benchmark current channels first. When a channel has no history, we test it with a clear budget and measurement plan, then evaluate the incremental revenue it contributes.
How do you measure hotel advertising performance?
Success is measured at both the channel and business levels. Booking engine conversion tracking connects campaign activity with completed reservations and booking value. We review the tracking between the hotel website and booking engine so performance reporting reflects the reservation journey. Depending on the channel, we monitor click through rate, impression share, conversion rate, look to book ratio, cost per acquisition, return on ad spend, booking revenue, and total direct revenue. We also align reporting with the hotel’s business goals and help define the right channel benchmarks.
Do you manage Google Hotel Ads and hotel metasearch?
Yes. We use our own platform to manage Google Hotel Ads and selected metasearch channels.
Can you work with our revenue and marketing teams?
Yes. For most clients, we report to marketing and work closely with revenue. We join marketing and revenue meetings when useful so priorities, need periods, offers, budgets, and performance remain aligned. We also work with ownership, general managers, sales teams, and other partners involved in the hotel’s commercial plan.
Do you manage advertising for hotel groups and management companies?
Yes. We create consistent portfolio standards for measurement, reporting, and oversight, while each hotel receives its own strategy based on its market, guests, stage, and revenue priorities. That balance is central to our work as a hotel marketing agency.
How much does hotel advertising management cost?
Management is priced as a custom flat fee based on the hotel, market, number of advertising channels, media budget, reporting needs, and level of support. We begin with an audit, define the scope, and provide a custom proposal. We do not use pay for performance or revenue share pricing.
How are advertising spend and platform payments handled?
Media spend is separate from our management fee. Most clients pay Google, Meta, Microsoft, and other platforms directly through their own accounts. When we pay media platforms on a client’s behalf, an additional handling fee calculated as a percentage of media spend applies.
How do you recommend an advertising budget?
We consider your revenue goals, market demand, competition, room inventory, seasonality, need periods, current channel performance, and available opportunities. When historical data is limited, we begin with controlled tests, set a benchmark, and expand investment where incremental revenue supports it.
How soon can we evaluate performance?
Paid channels begin producing data quickly, but a reliable review depends on traffic volume, conversion tracking, the hotel’s booking window, and seasonality. We set a baseline, test with purpose, and assess performance over a period that reflects how guests research and book the property.
On Your Mark,
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