Help independent hotels keep more of what they earn, and earn more on every booking.

I built Hotelia because independent hotel owners deserve to keep more of what they earn, and to earn more on every booking.

When you run an independent business, you are working toward your own success. You should have real control over your bookings, your revenue, and your guest relationships. That belief is the whole reason Hotelia exists.

Hospitality has been part of my life for as long as I can remember. I started out managing Marriott hotel brands and worked nearly every role along the way: the front desk, housekeeping, social hour, all the way up to running the whole operation.

Here is what those years taught me. A good operation is a team working in sync. A good hospitality business is prepared and welcoming, and it gives guests more than a room. The journey starts long before check-in, at discovery, when a guest is planning their stay. The next moment that matters is arrival.

Does the lobby matter? Yes. A welcoming host? Absolutely. Clean rooms and a well-set space? Of course. But what guests remember most is how they are received when they walk through the door.

Too often at check-in, the front desk is looking at a screen instead of at the guest. The guest stands there and watches them hunt for an available room, sometimes well past check-in time. In that moment, the hospitality is lost. That same time could have gone to welcoming the guest, learning their name, mentioning happy hour at six in the lobby or the little place around the corner worth walking to.

I wanted to build something that protects that moment. A tool that carries the busywork for an operator who is already wearing a dozen hats, so they never have to take off the most important one. Their social hat.

So here is what Hotelia does. Hotels take bookings directly from their own website. The booking flow includes upsells, at zero commission, and payments go straight to you through Stripe. Behind the scenes, Hotelia runs the operation too, with automated tasks, housekeeping, and built-in analytics so you always know how your hotel is performing: occupancy and forecasting, RevPAR, and daily revenue by room and by upsell. You also get revenue optimization based on your own booking patterns, or you can connect your preferred AI dynamic pricing tool. We set out to give you every essential a hotel needs on day one to start earning, without losing weeks to a complicated legacy platform.

Hotelia is for the new generation of hoteliers. The ones who want to give their guests a frictionless experience and help them build memories, with experiences at the property and around it. The ones who want to share their spaces and build their own brand.

Hospitality marketing has changed. It is real stories from the hotel now, the footage, the reels, the tags from guests who felt something worth sharing. As our lives get more digital, independent hotels have the advantage. Your spaces are the destination. We are here to keep supporting that, by building the platform that lets independent hotels give more and earn more from every booking.

We are officially launching with a 30-day free trial and a 30-day money-back guarantee. If you would like help onboarding your property, we will do it with you, at no cost.

Start your free trial today and see what Hotelia can do for your hotel. Prefer to talk it through? Book a 1:1 demo with me here: https://cal.com/hotelia/book-a-demo

All my best,
Jamie Frausto
Happy hoteling.