Case Study
A Boutique Hotel Website That Sells the Adventure
Custom website for an 8-room lodge in Escalante, Utah — where booking starts with inspiration.
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Rooms
Mobile-First
Design
SEO
Optimized
Booking
Integrated
The Challenge
Competing with the OTA giants.
Small boutique hotel competing with OTA platforms — Booking.com, Airbnb, Expedia — needed a direct booking website that showcased the property and surrounding adventures. The site needed to rank for local searches and convert visitors into direct bookings, reducing commission fees that were eating into margins.
What Was Built
A website that works as hard as the lodge.
Custom WordPress Site
Booking engine integration with property gallery and mobile-responsive design optimized for travelers on the go.
Adventure Content Pages
Activity and "things to do" content pages capturing search traffic from travelers planning trips to Escalante and Grand Staircase.
Local SEO Optimization
Content strategy focused on local search terms, driving organic traffic from travelers actively researching the area.
The Results
Direct bookings, organic traffic, mobile-first.
Direct booking channel reducing OTA commission fees
Adventure-focused content driving organic traffic
Mobile-first design serving travelers researching on the go
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About the Engineer
Luke MacNeil
20+ years at Salesforce & CVS Health. USPTO patent holder. Published technical reviewer.
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