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What we've learned about
hotel phones.
What we learn from the calls independent hotels answer, and the ones they do not. Written for operators, not for search engines.
RESEARCH
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8 MIN
What a missed call actually costs you
What actually happens to the calls a front desk misses. Almost none become voicemails. The caller simply dials the next hotel on the list, and most book there within minutes.
JULY 2026
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ECONOMICS
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4 MIN
How much you're paying booking sites
Every call that ends up on a travel platform costs you commission on a booking you had already earned. Here is that number set against the cost of simply answering.
JUNE 2026
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DATA
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3 MIN
What guests actually ask on the phone
Check in time, parking and the pet policy consume more front desk minutes than anything else. We ranked the real questions and how long each one takes to answer.
JUNE 2026
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HOW TO
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7 MIN
Is it safe to connect this to your PMS?
A practical guide to running any voice agent in read only mode first, what permissions to grant, and the checks worth doing before you let anything write a reservation.
MAY 2026
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We send one email a month with what we learned from real calls. If a month is quiet, we skip it rather than pad it.
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