AI Revenue Intelligence · Luxury Vacation Rentals & Boutique Resorts

Win back your direct bookings. Keep the 15.5% Airbnb now takes.

I help luxury vacation rental companies get found by Google and AI assistants, answer every guest enquiry fast, and bring past guests back to book direct. Built for you, run for you, and reported on every month, in writing.

15.5%
Airbnb host-only fee for software-connected hosts, charged on the full booking total
Source: Hostaway, 2026
36→29%
Direct bookings' share of revenue, US professionally managed rentals, Q2 2025 to Q2 2026
Source: KeyData via RedAwning
51%
of reservations now arrive through Airbnb
Source: KeyData, Q2 2026
+45%
longer stays on direct bookings than on booking sites
Source: Lodgify 2026 Vacation Rental Report

"Every guest a booking site sends you is a guest you have to buy again. Every guest you bring back direct is yours."

Ameya Nagarkar

You built the portfolio. The platforms are taking the margin.

Fees are rising, booking sites are winning a larger share of your reservations, and guest research is moving into AI assistants that increasingly hand bookings to the same booking sites.

Meanwhile your best asset, the guests who already stayed with you and loved it, rebook through Airbnb because nobody invited them back directly.

The fix is not one tool. It is three levers working together, measured every month.

  • 01
    The fee squeezeAirbnb's single host-only fee of 15.5% comes out of your payout and applies to cleaning and pet fees too.
  • 02
    The share shiftFor US professionally managed rentals, Airbnb's share of revenue rose from 36% to 43% in a year while direct fell from 36% to 29% (KeyData).
  • 03
    The AI shiftExpedia and Booking.com now run apps inside ChatGPT, and 40% of travelers use AI to help build itineraries (Expedia Group / YouGov, 5,700+ adults, 2026). If AI recommends the booking-site listing instead of your website, you pay the commission.
  • 04
    The repeat-guest leakDirect bookings run 45% longer stays than booking-site bookings (Lodgify). Past guests are your cheapest direct bookings, if someone asks them back.

Three levers. One monthly report.

01
Be Found

Visible in Google and AI

Your direct website made easy for Google, ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini to read, trust and recommend, for the questions your guests actually ask.

  • AI crawler access and technical checks
  • Property and destination pages structured for AI answers
  • Advanced schema markup and llms.txt
  • Citation building on trusted travel sources
  • Monthly AI and Google visibility tracking
02
Answer Fast

Every enquiry, any hour

A 24/7 AI-assisted response for guest enquiries by chat, email and phone, set up on the tools you already use and written to luxury guest-service standards.

  • Guest knowledge base in your brand voice
  • Clear rules: rates, availability and access codes stay with your team
  • Instant handoff to your reservations team
  • Staff quick guide
  • Monthly response-time checks
03
Bring Them Back

Past guests, rebooked direct

Thoughtful, well-timed invitations that bring past guests back to book direct for their next stay, with tracked links so every booking is measured.

  • Seasonal return campaigns in your voice
  • Consent-based, using your existing guest list
  • Direct-booking offers that protect your rates
  • Tracked links and offer codes
  • Monthly Revenue Intelligence Report

Start free. Pay when it pays.

One clear path. Every step is done for you, delivered in writing, and measured in direct booking revenue.

Step 1
Direct Booking Leak Report
Free written report
See exactly where your direct bookings are leaking. Delivered within 3 business days. No call needed.
  • How AI and Google answer 5 guest questions about your market
  • Enquiry response-time test
  • Booking-site dependence snapshot
  • Recoverable past-guest revenue estimate
  • 3 prioritised quick wins
Get My Report
Step 3
Revenue Engine Retainer
$1,500 / month
The engine kept running and improving. Up to 75 homes; $2,500/month for 76 to 250 homes. Month to month, 30 days' notice.
  • Monthly rebooking campaigns
  • AI and Google visibility monitoring and fixes
  • Response quality checks and script updates
  • Monthly Revenue Intelligence Report
  • Async strategy review every quarter
Enquire

Independent luxury resorts and boutique hotels: the same engine, scoped to your property. Enquire for an AI Visibility Audit (from $1,500).

Two Forbes Five-Star resorts. One hidden leak.

In a 2026 research audit of two Forbes Five-Star Caribbean resorts, three independent tools confirmed the same problem: the resorts' web infrastructure was blocking the crawlers used by ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity, so AI assistants could not read their official websites.

AI answers instead leaned on third-party and booking-site pages. The estimated cost was $20,000 to $41,000 a month in bookings flowing through commission channels instead of direct. It is exactly the kind of leak the free report is designed to find.

The finding
Confirmed by three independent tools
AI crawlers received "access denied" responses from the resorts' websites, making the official sites invisible to AI recommendations.
Research audit · 2026
The impact
Estimated revenue at stake
$20,000 to $41,000 per month across both properties in bookings routed to commission channels rather than direct.
Fixable in days

20 years of luxury guest service. Now working for your revenue.

I spent more than 20 years in luxury hospitality across LVMH, Belmond, Hyatt, Hilton, Marriott and Wyndham, in the Caribbean, the Middle East and Asia, training teams to Forbes Five-Star service standards.

Today I combine that guest-experience expertise with AI search and automation to help luxury rental companies and resorts win more direct bookings. Most agencies understand software. Very few understand what a luxury guest expects at 11pm when they ask about check-in.

I take a small number of clients and personally own every deliverable. Everything runs in writing, with recorded walkthroughs, so you never need to schedule a call to see progress.

20+
Years in luxury hospitalityLVMH · Belmond · Hyatt · Hilton · Marriott · Wyndham
2026
Maven AEO Masterclass, Cohort 4Answer Engine Optimization. Mostafa ElBermawy.
2025
Leading with Generative AIHarvard Business Impact.
2025
LVMH Generative AI Fast TrackAI change agent certification.
2024
Forbes Travel Guide AcademyLuxury service standards and guest experience.
2024
HR Data Analytics, LVMH × ESCPData analytics for hospitality operations.

What owners actually ask.

Who do you work with?

Luxury and premium vacation rental management companies, typically 25 to 250 homes, in US mountain-resort and coastal markets. I also work with independent luxury resorts and boutique hotels.

What is the Direct Booking Revenue Engine?

A done-for-you system with three levers: making your direct website visible and recommendable in Google and AI assistants such as ChatGPT, answering every guest enquiry fast with a 24/7 AI-assisted response set up on the tools you already use, and bringing past guests back to book direct. Every month you receive a Revenue Intelligence Report.

Why focus on direct bookings now?

Airbnb's host-only fee is 15.5% for software-connected hosts and is charged on the full booking total. KeyData figures for US professionally managed rentals show direct bookings' share of revenue fell from 36% in Q2 2025 to 29% in Q2 2026. Every booking moved back to direct keeps that commission in your business.

What does the free Direct Booking Leak Report include?

A short written report within 3 business days: how your direct site appears when guests ask Google and AI assistants about your market, how quickly your business replies to a guest enquiry, and an estimate of revenue you could recover from past guests. No call is required.

How does the Sprint guarantee work?

If the 30-day Direct Booking Sprint has not generated at least $2,500 in new direct booking revenue within 90 days of completion, I keep working at no extra charge until it has. It requires a past-guest list of at least 500 guests who agreed to receive marketing, and attribution through the tracked links and offer codes we set up together.

Do I need to get on calls?

No. The process is designed to run in writing, with recorded video walkthroughs. A call is available if you prefer one.

Do you replace my property management system or channel manager?

No. I work with the systems you already use, such as Guesty, Hostaway, OwnerRez or Track, and your existing email platform.

Your free Direct Booking Leak Report

Tell me about your portfolio. Within 3 business days you'll receive a short written report showing where direct bookings are leaking and the three fastest fixes.

Written report within 3 business days
No sales call required: results by email and recorded video
A small number of new clients each quarter

Received.

Your Direct Booking Leak Report will arrive by email within 3 business days. No call required.