Travel & Hotels7 min read
The Hotel Tech Stack: What Each Layer Does and Costs
How PMS, channel managers, booking engines, RMS and CRS connect, with scoped pricing examples and a checklist for comparing a hotel's full operating cost.
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Travel & Hotels8 min read
The London West Hollywood: What Eight Years Kept
The website we designed for The London West Hollywood in 2018, built around four kinds of guest, and what the live site runs and added by October 2026.
Travel & Hotels6 min read
OTA Commissions Explained: The Book-Direct Math
Compare OTA and direct-booking costs using the applicable contract, payment fees and acquisition costs, with dated platform examples and a worked model.
Travel & Hotels8 min read
The Maven Denver: A Hotel That Leads With Local Art
The art-first website we designed for The Maven at Dairy Block in Denver, three awards in 2017, and what the live site kept, moved and renamed by 2026.
Travel & Hotels6 min read
Bisha Toronto: Luxury by Taste, Then a Chain Flag
The editorial website we designed for Bisha Toronto, features visible in a later build, and a dated parked-domain observation with ownership unknown.
Travel & Hotels9 min read
Hotel El Ganzo: A Trip, Not a Destination
How we rebuilt Hotel El Ganzo's site around its basement recording studio and artist residencies, and which decisions survived to the 2026 site.
Travel & Hotels6 min read
Why Booking.com Looks Cheaper Than the Hotel Website, and How to Fix It
Compare hotel and OTA prices on matching dates, room types and terms. How loyalty rates, channel costs and a hidden direct price affect the booking decision.
Travel & Hotels5 min read
Brush Creek Ranch: A Front Door for Each Property
How our Brush Creek Ranch website design separated three properties, led with the land, and gave leisure guests and event planners distinct paths.
Travel & Hotels6 min read
The Resort at Pedregal: Enter Through the Tunnel
How we designed Pedregal's hotel website around its mountain tunnel and cliffside arrival, with private terraces and a short booking path.
Business7 min read
How to Use Storytelling in Hospitality Website Design
Storytelling on a hotel site is structure, not copy: six rules from properties we designed, with what their live sites kept, checked on 6 October 2026.
Travel & Hotels4 min read
Privacy by Design for Travel Websites
Map travel website data from search to booking, limit collection, separate analytics from guest records, and distinguish pseudonymisation from anonymisation.
Travel & Hotels5 min read
10 A/B Testing Ideas for Travel Websites
Ten travel website experiments with a hypothesis, booking metric and guardrail, plus a practical plan for deciding whether you have enough traffic to test.
Travel & Hotels4 min read
7 Features for a Clear Travel Landing Page
A practical travel landing-page checklist covering offer, price, rooms, proof, availability, mobile behavior and the booking-engine handoff.
Travel & Hotels7 min read
How Quick Design Saves Costs in Travel UX Projects
Fast design saves money in travel UX when it removes open decisions, not care. Worked examples from hotel projects, with fixed prices as of October 2026.
Travel & Hotels4 min read
8 UI Design Decisions for Travel Websites
Evaluate eight travel interface decisions by guest task, operational truth, accessibility and performance, with concrete acceptance checks.
Travel & Hotels8 min read
10 Signs Your Hotel Website Needs a Design Refresh
Ten checkable hotel website problems, from hidden rates to booking handoffs, with dated observations from six homepages and a repair-versus-rebuild method.
Travel & Hotels3 min read
5 Travel Website Designs and What to Learn From Them
Five archived travel website examples show different ways to organize discovery, explain a stay and support the next step, without claiming booking results.
Design Thinking4 min read
Understanding User Intent in Travel Websites
Map travel visitors by the task they need to complete, using interviews, search and funnel evidence rather than assumptions about leisure, business or device.