Show the place properly
A careful gallery, images optimised to stay fast on mobile, a layout that lets photographs breathe.
Hospitality
On the Riviera, your website is your year-round window.
Restaurant, hotel, villa, holiday rental: the customer decides while looking at photos on a phone, often from another country, often months before arriving. What they see at that moment decides your season.
The most common situations
- Every booking goes through a platform that takes its commission.
- The menu is a PDF you have to zoom into.
- The photos do not do the place justice.
- Foreign guests write to ask what is already on the site, in French only.
What decides a guest
Images, first. In hospitality the site sells an atmosphere before it sells a service. Decent, well-framed photos that load quickly do more for a booking than any amount of copy.
Practical information, next, and immediately: hours, prices or a range, capacity, parking, pets, what is included. Every unanswered question on the site becomes a message you have to reply to, or a guest who looks elsewhere.
Finally, booking. Platforms bring visibility, but take a commission on every night and keep the customer relationship. A site that allows direct booking or enquiry does not replace them, it recovers the share of guests who would have found you anyway.
Method
What the studio puts in place
The studio has built sites for a private house in Golfe-Juan and for three hospitality venues. The needs rhyme: show the place, answer the questions, allow booking.
Answer before being asked
A menu readable without a PDF, prices or ranges, practical details, access and parking. Directly in the page.
Book direct
An enquiry form or an integrated booking engine, depending on how you work. The goal: recover a share of the bookings currently going to commission.
More than one language
French and English at minimum, with real per-language addresses so foreign visitors planning a trip can find you.
What to avoid
The mistakes we see most often
The menu as a PDF
It needs zooming, it does not read on a phone, and no search engine indexes what is inside it. It is the first thing a customer looks for and the worst served.
Photos taken on a phone at midday
In hospitality the site sells an atmosphere before a service. An excellent site with mediocre photos converts worse than a simple site with excellent ones.
Sending everyone to the platform
Guests searching for you by name go through the commission only because nothing else is offered to them. They are the easiest ones to win back.
A real case
Already done, and open to view
Maison LE POÈTE presents a private house in Golfe-Juan and its boat: editorial direction, gallery, location map and a discreet stay request.
Proof
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The full scope, the deliverables, and what happens after launch.
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What we need from you
A hospitality site is built around images and availability. Both come from you.
- Usable photos, or approval to bring in a photographer.
- Your rates, or a range you are willing to publish.
- How you take bookings today, platforms included.
- Who answers enquiries, and how quickly.
FAQ
The questions we get asked
Can a site fully replace Booking or Airbnb?+
Fully, rarely. Those platforms bring visibility a site alone does not match. The realistic goal is to recover the guests already looking for you by name, or returning: they go through the platform only because you offer them nothing else, and every direct booking saves the commission.
Do I need a professional photographer?+
It is the highest-return investment in the whole project for hospitality. An excellent site with mediocre photos converts worse than a simple site with excellent ones. The studio can work with your existing images, but will say so if they undersell the place.
How are availability and seasonal rates handled?+
According to how you work: a calendar synced with your current tool, a rate grid per period, or a simple request for a quote. The solution is chosen from how you already operate, not the other way round.
Do you work with businesses in Golfe-Juan and Vallauris?+
Yes, that is where the studio is based, with Juan-les-Pins, Antibes and Cannes immediately nearby. Meeting on site is straightforward, which matters when a place has to be photographed and understood.
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