Destination Media

Fully Managed,
Strategy & Implementation.

On-site and remote.

VSL video pending — pass video.mp4 and video.poster.

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Built for hotels grossing $3M–$30M a year.

  • Holiday Inn Resort
  • Colusa Casino Resort
  • Feather Falls Casino, Lodge & Brewery
  • Gold Country Casino Resort
  • Canyon Oaks Country Club
  • Bailey Creek
  • Kokanee Lodge at Lake Almanor
  • Knotty Pine Resort & Marina
  • Hignell Companies
  • ChicoStudentHousing.com
  • Ferguson & Brewer Investment Company
  • Entwood Property Management
  • Sotheby's International Realty
  • Chase International Real Estate
  • Compass
  • Century 21 Select Group

We Grow Your Hotel's Direct Bookings

More heads in beds. Higher ADR. Less paid to the OTAs.

  1. Identify Bottlenecks

    We start by finding where your revenue leaks — OTA commissions, shoulder-season vacancy, an ADR below what your property could command. That audit becomes the plan.

  2. On-Location Production

    We come to your property and shoot it properly — cinematic photo and video of your rooms, your grounds, your details. Real media of the real place, never stock or AI filler. Your marketing finally looks like your hotel actually looks.

  3. Build Your Marketing System

    We build your whole marketing department around that media: a direct-booking website, campaigns, and a 12-month roadmap set before it runs — so every month fills rooms on purpose, not by luck.

  4. Launch, Test & Scale

    We run the media, test what converts, and pour budget into what actually books rooms — shifting share off the OTAs and onto your own site, month over month.

  5. Proof, in Real Time

    Every dollar of spend tied to booked stays inside Hilt — your own marketing-intelligence platform — with weekly reports and quarterly reviews whenever you want them.

Run your own numbers

See what direct bookings are worth to you

Your rooms, your ADR, your commission rate. Two minutes. Nobody's estimate but yours.

You've got questions.We've got answers.

What exactly do you do?

We're the outside marketing department for boutique hotels. We come shoot your property, build and run your direct-booking website and campaigns, buy and manage your media, and tie every dollar to booked stays in one platform. One team replacing the photographer, the ad agency, the web guy, and the marketing director — aimed at one number: more direct bookings, less paid to the OTAs.

Which hotels have you worked with?

We'll be straight with you: we're taking a handful of founding hotel properties, and we'd rather earn a case study than borrow one. What we bring is 20+ years of high-stakes media buying and cinematic production from the most competitive rooms in the world — luxury real estate, resorts, casinos, direct-to-consumer. Most hotel agencies recycle the same tired playbook; we bring aggressive direct-response mechanics and premium production straight into hospitality.

Won't the OTAs just fill my rooms anyway?

They will — and take 15–25% of every booking to do it, while owning your guest relationship. We don't replace the OTAs; we lower your dependence on them by winning bookings on your own site, where the margin and the guest are yours to keep.

How do I know this will work for my property?

Because the math is yours, not ours. Give us your rooms, ADR, occupancy, and OTA share and we'll show you — in your own numbers — what commissions and empty rooms cost you each year, and what a modest shift to direct puts back in your pocket. It's usually more than our fee. No projections, no hype — your arithmetic.

Isn't this a lot of my time?

No — that's the entire point of hiring the department. We build a 12-month plan and run it. You get two 30-minute calls a month and quarterly reviews whenever you want them; if you never book a call, the marketing keeps going. Attention when you want it, momentum when you don't.

What if it doesn't work?

We agree the targets with you before anything runs, and we report against them every month — so whether this is working is never a matter of opinion. You watch spend and booked stays side by side in your own dashboard, in real time. We're also deliberately selective about which properties we take on, for exactly this reason: we'd rather turn a hotel down than take one we can't move the number for.

What makes you different from the other options?

Three things. We come to your property and shoot it — no stock, no AI slop, so your marketing finally looks like your hotel actually looks. We run the media ourselves, aimed at booked rooms, not vanity metrics. And every dollar ties to a booked stay in your own dashboard, in real time. Most agencies do one of those and charge you to coordinate the rest.

What's the investment?

Less than the team it replaces. A travel photographer, a videographer, a media buyer, a web team, a social media coordinator, and marketing director run north of $144k–$220k a year before you've spent a dollar on ads — you get all of it, plus the platform that proves it out, for a fraction of that. We'll walk through the exact numbers on your call, once we know your property.

What do I need to do next?

Answer a few quick questions to see if we're a fit, watch a short walkthrough of exactly how it works, and if it makes sense, book a call. No pressure — worst case, you leave knowing precisely what the OTAs are costing you.