This document discusses key factors that contribute to an effective hotel website design. It outlines trends like using vivid visuals to showcase hotel rooms and amenities, integrating social media, ensuring fast functionality and online booking, providing multilingual options, and using intuitive navigation. Specific examples are given of hotel websites that exemplify these best practices through high-quality images, social media integration, multilingual interfaces, and easy booking systems. Color selection is also discussed as a way to create a warm, comfortable atmosphere for visitors.

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2. Hotels often take great extend in trying to provide the perfect ambiance and atmosphere for
their customer. However, most of the hotels overlook the importance of providing a great
website which will eventually be the gateway for their business. Hotels are mostly catered to
international and overseas customers. Most of these customers have not stayed in those hotels
before. What make the customers click on the booking button could very much depend on how
well the website has captured their attention.

3. What makes an excellent Hotel Website?
There are numerous factors that will determine whether a hotel website is
great. Such factors like simplicity of navigation, easy understandability of
information and powerful functionality could all affect the user experience
which in the end will be the deciding report card of the hotel website.

4. Visual Attraction
Customers will not go to a place where they have never seen before.
Most of them are too busy to try anyway. In order to mentally prepare
customers on what to expect and lure them to check into their hotel,
they would need to look at their room, toilet, balcony etc.
Hotel Guarda Golf
Hotel Guarda Golf has a great gallery picturing all the different angles of their
gorgeous hotel rooms, hence providing visitors an idea of how their room
looks like.

6. Social, Social, Social
It seems like social media could never be neglected. Good reviews from
satisfied customers could be very beneficial for the hotel business. Nowadays,
social media and viral marketing have become so powerful that even
celebrities are using them. Hotel guests could provide their feedbacks on
their residential experience online. Guests could subscribe to the Hotel RSS
feeds or follow them on popular social networks such as Twitter, to stay in
touch with the latest promotion and updates.
MGM Grand
MGM Grand allows their visitors to get updates on popular social media like
Twitter, Facebook or Youtube.

8. Functionality
The website has to load fast. While customers are busy scrolling through the
images of the hotel room, they could be treated with some soothing music.
All hotels needs an online booking system, it is like the brain on the human
body. A powerful booking system will eventually bring their hotel into the
next technological era too.
Atlantis The Palm
Beautiful large scrolling images without the need of reloading clearly
increases a visitor visual experience. Atlantis also has a comprehensive online
booking system.

10. Multilingual Websites
As hotel websites are usually catered to the international market, they need
to understand that not all customers understand the same language. So it will
be good if the website can be translated into multiple languages for a wider
variety of customers without the need to exit the website.
Albert Hotel Riga
Albert Hotel Riga allows easy switching between different languages such as
English, Russian and Latvian without leaving the site.

12. Ease of Use
Clear and simple navigation should be one of the priorities when it comes to
hotel website design. It is the factor that could convert interested visitors into
customers instead of frustrating them. Important information like, location,
contact details and booking method should be readily visible to customers.
Grand Hotel Tremezzo
All information are listed neatly and prominently on the navigation bar. Grand
Hotel Tremezzo website is a great joy to navigate around.

14. Detailed Service
Customers would like to know the type of services the hotel has installed for
them, the hotel policies and about us page. Content should be in detail with
appropriate and readable font size. The information should also not be
misleading or hidden to prevent any empty promises.
Capella Singapore
Capella Singapore is a six star hotel that has various number of activities, spa
and dining options listed on the site for their visitors to check them out.

16. Choice of Colors
Hotels tend to select colors that are warm and sensual to the human being.
They like to create a homely and comfortable feeling for their customers. That
is why you often see hotel website designs are in certain colors like, white,
blue, black or green. White is associated with elegance and pureness, while
blue gives off sensual and relaxing feeling. Black meanwhile gives customers
mysterious and bedtime thoughts and green gives them a natural and
refreshing experience.
Hotel Missoni
Hotel Missoni presents an unique idea with a very different concept of hotel
website design using an excellent mixture of colors.

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