Will we really depend less on the booking sites?

The goal is not to leave them. They put you in front of guests who would never have found your island, and that is worth paying for. The goal is that a guest who has already decided on you, or who has stayed before, has an obvious way to book direct so you stop paying a percentage of the whole stay twice.

Will this break our agreement with the booking sites?

Not if it is built correctly. We do not undercut your rate on the platforms. We add value to the direct booking at the same rate, which standard parity terms allow, and packages give you a lot of room to do that. If your contract is unusual, send it to us before we design the offer.

Our season is short. Is it worth building for the quiet months?

That is usually where the work pays for itself. Your peak weeks fill without much help. The months around them are the ones a direct channel and a deliberate offer can move, because nobody else is trying to sell them for you.

Most of our guests book months ahead. How fast can this work?

That long lead time cuts both ways. It means the first bookings take longer to appear than they would for a city hotel, and it means the visibility you build now lands on people planning next season. We time the launch against your planning window rather than against the calendar.

Can you connect to the calendar and channel manager we already use?

Usually yes. We work with your existing setup where we can, and sync it against your platform calendars so the same villa cannot be sold twice. If you only have the platform calendars today, we will tell you plainly whether a proper channel manager is worth it at your size.

We get bookings through Messenger. Do we need a website?

Messenger works and we would not take it away. It stops working when a guest is planning from another timezone, comparing three resorts at once, and wants to see the package and the transfer before they commit. The website is for the booking you are asleep for.

You are in Denmark. How does that work when our resort is here?

Everything we do is done remotely already. What we cannot do is walk your property, so photography and anything needing someone physically present is either yours or a local supplier you choose. Everything else does not require us to be on the island.

Who owns the website and the Google profile if we stop?

You do, from the first day. The domain is registered in your name, the Google Business Profile sits in your account with us added as a manager, and you can remove us without asking anyone.

How long before the site is live?

Four to six weeks from the first meeting, faster if your photos and package information are ready. Search ads can start bringing enquiries within a couple of weeks, while organic visibility builds over a few months.

Web and marketing agency for resorts in the Philippines

A resort booking is five nights, two people, transfers and a package, decided months ahead by somebody who has never been to your island. The platform takes a cut of all of it. We build the direct path that does not.

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The faces behind Siite

You will always know who is working on your business.

The same people build your website, run your ads and reply to your messages, rather than a new freelancer every few months.

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900+ businesses grown in Denmark. Now working with businesses in Metro Manila, Cebu, Davao and across the Philippines.

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Web development and design

A site that answers what a listing cannot

The thing that stops a guest booking an island property is rarely the rate. It is not knowing how they reach you, or whether a delayed flight leaves them stranded in Manila overnight. So the route from the nearest airport or port is written out step by step, transfers are priced and bookable, and arrival times are matched against the boats and flights that actually run.

Guests choose a trip, not a room, so the site sells packages with the inclusions listed in full rather than a nightly rate and a hope.

The route from the nearest airport or port, written step by step
Transfers offered and priced as part of the booking
Multi-night packages with inclusions listed in full
Dive, tour and activity add-ons booked at the same time
Built light, because guests research on phones and arrive where the signal is weak

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Digital marketing

Found while they are still planning the trip

Guests search the island, the beach and the dive site by name long before they search your property. Being the resort they find at that stage is what fills a season without paying for the same guest twice. We work the pages, the profile and the reviews so you are there. We will not promise you a position. Nobody honest can.

The other half is the shoulder season. Your peak weeks fill without much help; the months around them are the ones that decide the year, and nobody else is trying to sell them for you.

Search work aimed at the island and the dive sites, not only your name
Ads timed to when your guests actually plan, not to the calendar
Offers and campaigns built for the quiet weeks on purpose
Reviews asked for after every stay and every one replied to
A named specialist you keep, not a new account manager every quarter

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What a season looks like now

The booking is worth thousands. The commission comes off all of it.

A resort stay is not one night. It is five nights, two people, transfers, meals and a dive package, decided months in advance by somebody who has never been to your island. That booking is worth many times a city room night, which is exactly why paying a percentage of it to a platform hurts the way it does.

A percentage of a big booking is a big number

Commission is charged on the total, not on the room. The longer the stay and the more that is included, the more a single platform booking costs you compared with the same guest arriving on your own site.

The shoulder season is nobody else's problem

Platforms sell your peak weeks without much help. The quiet months in between are the ones that decide whether the year works, and no platform is going to fill them for you.

You never meet the guest before they arrive

A guest planning a trip has questions about transfers, weather, diving and what is actually included. If that conversation happens inside a platform, you lose both the booking and everything you would have learned.

What we build

A site that answers the questions a platform listing cannot.

Somebody planning a trip from another country needs more than a room and a rate. They need to understand how they get to you, what the week looks like and why it is worth the journey.

Getting there, explained properly.

The single biggest reason a guest hesitates on an island property is not the rate. It is not knowing how they reach you, or whether they will be stranded on the way.

The route from the nearest airport or port, written step by step
Transfers offered and priced as part of the booking
Arrival times matched against the actual boat and flight schedules
What happens when a flight is delayed or the sea is rough

Packages, not just rooms.

Guests do not choose a resort by comparing room rates. They choose the trip: the dives, the island hopping, the honeymoon week, the family stay with the kids fed.

Multi night packages with the inclusions listed in full
Dive, tour and activity add ons booked at the same time
Group, family and wedding enquiries handled without a phone call
Minimum stays and seasonal rules stated before the guest gets attached

Photography that carries the decision.

Nobody visits your resort before booking it. The gallery is the property as far as the guest is concerned, and it has to beat a platform listing built from the same rooms.

A gallery built to load on mobile data, not to stall
The water, the room and the food shown as separate reasons to come
Room types shown apart, from the garden room to the beachfront villa
Reviews placed beside the package, where the doubt actually sits

Written for guests booking from abroad.

A Manila weekender and a European booking six months ahead are not reading the same page. We write for both rather than averaging them into something that persuades neither.

English as standard, with local language where it helps
Rates, inclusions and cancellation terms stated plainly
Time zones respected, so nobody waits a day for an answer
Seasonal offers you can change yourself when the forecast turns

See it in action

This is what changes for a resort.

Three things a guest notices in the first few seconds, and one thing Google notices.

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Via the platform

1A guest searches for somewhere to stay in your area
2They land on the booking site, not on you
3They compare you against every other property listed there
4They book, and a commission comes off the stay
5The guest belongs to the platform. Next year, the same again.

You rented the guest.

Direct with you

1A guest searches for somewhere to stay in your area
2Your map listing and your own site are both there
3They see your rooms, your rates and your reviews
4They book on your page, same rate, more included
5The guest is yours. You can reach them again next season.

You own the guest.

Booking direct instead of through a platform.

The same guest journey, side by side. One ends with a commission on the whole stay and a guest who belongs to the platform. The other ends with a guest you can invite back next season.

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On the map when somebody searches the island.

A guest researching where to stay searches the island, the beach or the dive site by name. The map block decides who they look at first, and most never scroll past it.

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A profile that looks open and busy.

Photos, amenities, current rates and answered questions. A resort with an empty profile reads as closed for the season, whatever the website says.

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Fast enough to survive mobile data.

Your guest may be researching on a phone with a weak signal, and so is anyone already on the island. A gallery that stalls sends them back to the app they came from.

All in one place

From the website to the first direct booking.

The site is the foundation, but on its own it does not fill the season. We run the rest as well: visibility on Google, the ads, and the messages that go out before and after a stay.

A website built for packages

Fast on mobile, connected to your calendar, and laid out so a guest can book a whole trip rather than send an enquiry and wait.

Found for the island, not just the name

Better position for the island, the beach and the dive sites people search by name, including from the countries your guests fly in from.

Google Business Profile managed

Photos, amenities, the booking link and answers to guest questions, kept current from our side rather than left to whoever has the login.

Ads timed to how far ahead people book

Paid search aimed at the months when your guests are actually planning, and paused for the weeks that always sell out on their own.

The shoulder season worked deliberately

Offers and campaigns built for the quiet weeks, rather than spending the same way all year and hoping the average works out.

Reviews after every stay

A friendly message once the guest has checked out, so fresh reviews keep arriving instead of drying up after the high season.

Messages that send themselves

Confirmation, arrival and transfer instructions, a packing note, a review request and next season's offer, all automatic rather than typed by you.

You see which channel filled the villa

Each booking traced back to where it came from, so next season you know where the money should go.

From first call to first direct booking

Ready for the season in 4 to 6 weeks.

We start before the season, so the site is working and visible on Google well ahead of the months your guests do their planning.

The conversation

We talk about the resort, which packages actually make money, where your guests fly in from and what last season looked like month by month. No jargon.

45 minutes

Photos and words

We plan the gallery, write the packages and the transfer information, and decide what makes booking direct worth more than booking through a platform, without touching your rate.

5 to 7 days

Building the site

Design, build, calendar and payment connected, then tested against real dates so the same villa cannot be sold twice.

3 to 4 weeks

Launch and ads

The site goes live, the first search ads start ahead of the planning window and we watch the first direct bookings come through.

Live and measured

Why Siite for resorts

We know the difference between a peak guest and a shoulder season one.

No commission on your bookings

You pay us for the work, not a share of the stay. On a five night package that difference is the whole argument for building this.

The quiet months get their own plan

Filling August is a different job from filling the peak weeks, and it is the one that decides your year. We treat it as separate work rather than as leftover budget.

Built for a phone on mobile data

Your guests research on phones and arrive somewhere with a weak signal. We build for that connection rather than for the office broadband we work on.

Reviews handled, not hoped for

A request after every stay, and a professional reply to every review including the difficult ones. Guests read the replies more closely than the reviews.

Everything stays in your name

The domain, the site, the Google profile and the ad accounts belong to you. You can revoke our access on any day without asking us first.

Proven where marketing is expensive

More than 900 businesses grown in Denmark, where clicks cost more and every competitor already has a good website. We are new to this market and open about it.

Resort marketing: frequently asked questions

Everything resort owners ask before deciding.

Last reviewed: August 2026

The questions island and beach resort owners put to us first. If yours is not here, bring it to the call.

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Works well together

What to look at next

A neighbouring property type with a different booking behind it, and the two service pages this page draws on.

Running a city hotel instead?

A city property sells single nights, decided the same day, often by a guest who has stayed before. The commission problem is the same; the fix sits somewhere else. Different page.

How we do local search

Being found for the island by name, at the stage where a guest is still deciding where to go rather than where to stay.

Photography that carries the decision

Nobody visits before booking. Your gallery is the resort as far as the guest is concerned, and it has to beat a platform listing built from the same rooms.

Your team

You get these people, by name.

Christian Barnbaek, Client Director, runs the account. Mikkel Friis, Head of Marketing, sets the plan. Nicklas Dyrmose, SEO Specialist, works the island searches. Elvir Sejfulai, Head of Development, builds the site. The same four next quarter, and the quarter after that.