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Hotels & hospitality

Hotel & hospitality website design in Dubai

Direct-booking websites for hotels, resorts, holiday-home operators, tour companies and DMCs across the UAE — a booking engine on your own domain, rate parity with the OTAs, and guests who book in English or Arabic, in their own currency.

  • 15–25% what OTAs commonly keep
  • Book direct engine on your domain
  • EN + AR plus the guest's currency
  • Fixed price no retainers

Quick answer

How much does a hotel website cost in Dubai, and how long does it take?

A hotel or holiday-home site with rooms, offers, a gallery, policies and a booking enquiry fits our five-page Small Business Website at AED 2,490 and launches in about 2–3 weeks. A custom-designed hotel site starts from ≈ AED 4,407. A booking engine on your own domain, with live rates, a payment gateway and channel-manager sync, starts from ≈ AED 6,611 and takes the project to 5–8 weeks. A custom booking platform for a holiday-home operator or a DMC starts from ≈ AED 12,854. Every project is a fixed price with 3 months of free maintenance — see the packages. Dubai agencies typically quote AED 5,000–25,000 for a hotel site with a booking engine; our prices are fixed and published.

AED 2,490
rooms, offers, enquiry — 5 pages
≈ AED 6,611
from — booking engine on your domain
3-12 wks
enquiry first, then the engine

Why direct matters

Guests compare ten tabs — the booking goes to the site they trust most

Online travel agencies are excellent for discovery and expensive at the moment of booking: commissions of 15–25% of the room rate are common. A hotel website that matches the OTA rate, adds a small direct-only benefit and lets the guest finish the booking on your own domain turns that discovery into margin you keep — and into a guest record you own.

Dubai and the wider UAE sell to the whole world: a guest may arrive from London, Riyadh, Mumbai or Shanghai, on a phone, with weak hotel-lobby Wi-Fi, comparing your property against ten others. The site has to load instantly, show real photography, answer the practical questions — pool, beach access, breakfast, parking, transfer — and let them check rates without leaving the page.

Trust decides the booking. Aggregate review scores with their source, the cancellation policy in plain words, fees and taxes shown before checkout, a secure payment page on your domain and a WhatsApp number that answers — these are what a guest spending several thousand dirhams needs to see before they commit.

And the market is bilingual and seasonal. GCC families book in Arabic for Eid and the summer; European and Asian guests book in English for the winter. A site that exists properly in both languages, shows the guest's currency and runs the right offer at the right time serves both without doubling the work for your reservations team.

  • Booking engine on your domain
  • Rate parity + direct perk
  • Guest's currency
  • Real photography
  • WhatsApp concierge
  • Arabic + English
  • Policies up front

Common problems

Why hospitality websites in the UAE lose bookings

The four gaps we fix most often for hotels, resorts, holiday-home operators and tour companies.

  1. "Book now" sends the guest to someone else's domain

    The booking button opens a third-party page with a different look, a different URL and no trace of your brand. Guests hesitate at the moment of payment, tracking breaks, and the few who continue often go back to the OTA they already trust.

  2. Beautiful photos, slow pages

    Full-size images, auto-playing video and heavy sliders take seconds to load on a phone. Guests comparing properties on a 4G connection are not patient; the slow tab gets closed, and Google ranks it lower for the same reason.

  3. No reason to book direct

    The website shows the same rate as the OTAs with none of their convenience — no price comparison, no member rate, no perk, no flexible plan. Rate parity is the starting point; the direct-only benefit is what moves the booking.

  4. Invisible for the searches guests make

    Without hotel schema, room and offer pages, an area page and a Google Business Profile that matches the site, the property does not appear for "hotel near Dubai Mall", "beach resort Ras Al Khaimah" or "holiday home Dubai Marina" — and the OTAs rank for your own name.

Must-have features

Six things a hotel website must do

The features general managers and revenue teams ask for first — and where each one fits in our fixed-price packages before an integration is scoped.

  • A booking engine on your own domain

    Dates, room, guests, extras and payment in one scroll, on your URL, styled as your brand — embedded from your PMS vendor's engine or built light-weight for independent properties, with a channel manager keeping rates and availability in sync.

    Fits: booking engine from ≈ AED 6,611
  • Room, offer & experience pages

    One page per room category, package and experience — with real photography, what is included, occupancy, views and the answers guests ask reservations every day. These are the pages that rank and the pages that convert.

    Fits: Small Business Website AED 2,490 and up
  • Rate parity and a direct-only perk

    The OTA rate shown next to yours, plus the benefit only direct guests get — late checkout, breakfast, a room upgrade subject to availability or a flexible cancellation — and a member rate for returning guests without a five-step sign-up.

    Fits: scoped with the booking build
  • The guest's currency and language

    Rates in AED with a live approximate conversion to the guest's currency, an Arabic version that is a real right-to-left site, and fees and taxes shown before checkout so the price never changes at the last step.

    Fits: Small Business Website and up
  • Trust signals and policies up front

    Aggregate review scores with their source, the cancellation policy in plain words, holiday-home permit numbers, a secure payment page and a WhatsApp number that answers — placed where a guest looks before committing.

    Fits: every package
  • Local SEO for hotel searches

    Hotel and lodging schema, offer and room markup, an area page for the neighbourhood, a Google Business Profile that matches the site and review prompts after checkout — so the property appears before the OTAs for its own name and its area.

    Fits: SEO sprint from ≈ AED 6,611

Who we build for

Hospitality sites — tuned to your property

The same booking flow, room pages and offers — configured for the way your property actually sells.

  • City hotels

    City hotels

    Rooms, meetings and events, dining, transfers and parking

  • Beach & family resorts

    Beach & family resorts

    Pools, beach access, kids' clubs, all-inclusive packages

  • Desert & boutique stays

    Desert & boutique stays

    Experiences, dinners, stargazing — the story sells the stay

  • Holiday homes & serviced apartments

    Holiday homes & serviced apartments

    Unit pages, permit numbers, calendars, owner statements

  • Hotel groups

    Hotel groups

    One brand site, a page per property, central offers and loyalty

  • Tour operators & DMCs

    Tour operators & DMCs

    Itineraries, departures, group quotes, deposits online

  • Spas, beach clubs & experiences

    Spas, beach clubs & experiences

    Day passes, treatments, memberships and timed bookings

  • Travel agencies

    Travel agencies

    Packages, visas, holiday enquiries and payment plans — the hotel flow covers them until our Arabic travel-agency pages are live

Integrations

Plays nicely with the systems your property already runs

No rip-and-replace. The website plugs into the reservation, payment and messaging tools you use today.

Booking engines & channel managersYour PMS vendor's engine embedded on your domain, with rates and availability kept in sync with the OTAs by your channel manager

Property-management systemsReservations, rate plans and guest profiles flow into the PMS you already run — no double entry for the front desk

Payment gatewaysUAE-local gateways or international cards with 3-D Secure for deposits and prepaid rates, in AED with the guest's currency shown

WhatsApp Business APIBooking confirmations, pre-arrival messages, transfer and concierge requests and post-stay review prompts from your verified number

Review platforms & Google Business ProfileAggregate scores with their source shown on the site, a profile per property that matches the website, and review schema

Email & guest CRMOffer campaigns, member rates and returning-guest lists from the booking data you now own

How it runs

How a hotel website project runs

Six steps, in the order we run them on every hospitality build — the enquiry path first, the booking engine next, so the site earns from week three.

  1. Channel & rate audit

    We map your room categories, rate plans, OTA share and commission, the PMS, channel manager and payment tools you run, and the questions reservations answers most — the brief for the booking flow.

  2. Content, rooms & photography

    Rooms, offers, experiences, policies and fees go into one structured source in English and Arabic. We plan the photography and compress every image so the pages stay fast on a phone.

  3. Booking-first design

    Wireframes and a visual design built around the rate check, the room pages and the direct-only perk — mobile first, because most guests arrive from Google Maps, a review site or a shared link.

  4. Build & integrations

    Laravel or WordPress build with the booking engine embedded on your domain, the PMS and channel manager synced, the payment gateway and the WhatsApp Business API connected and tested with real test bookings.

  5. Launch in stages

    Rooms and enquiry first, then the booking engine, then offers, member rates and loyalty — so each stage goes live only after it has been tested with real guests and real payments.

  6. Local SEO & support

    Hotel and offer schema, Google Business Profile per property, area pages, analytics on which rooms, offers and markets bring the bookings, and 3 months of free maintenance after launch.

Pricing

Fixed price — no monthly retainers

A hotel or holiday-home site with rooms, offers, a gallery, policies and a booking enquiry fits the Small Business Website at AED 2,490. A booking engine on your own domain starts from ≈ AED 6,611, and a custom booking platform for holiday-home operators, DMCs and tour companies from ≈ AED 12,854. Hotel groups and multi-property brands are quoted on a fixed scope.

AED 2,490
5-page hotel site: rooms, offers, enquiry
≈ AED 6,611
from — booking engine on your domain
≈ AED 12,854
from — custom booking platform

Smaller start

A single holiday home, a desert camp or a small guesthouse can begin with the One-Page Website Launch at AED 990 (rooms, gallery, policies, WhatsApp, map), with 3 months of free maintenance, then add the booking engine and offers as the next stage.

UAE notes

What is different about a hotel website in the UAE

Four things we build in from the start on every hospitality project here.

  • Permits and licences shown

    Holiday homes in Dubai operate under a Dubai Department of Economy and Tourism (DET) holiday-home permit, properties in Abu Dhabi under a Department of Culture and Tourism (DCT) licence, and hotels under their tourism licence. The numbers get a visible place on the unit or property page, because guests — and the listing platforms — check them.

  • Fees shown before checkout

    Tourism and municipality fees, service charges and 5% VAT are displayed with the rate, not added at the last step. A price that changes at payment is the fastest way to lose a guest who was ready to book.

  • AED first, the guest's currency beside it

    Rates are stored and charged in AED, with a live approximate conversion to USD, GBP, EUR, SAR, INR and more. Deposits and prepayments run through a UAE-local gateway or international cards with 3-D Secure; pay-at-property stays available where the rate plan allows.

  • Arabic as a first-class version

    GCC families book in Arabic, for Eid, the summer and long weekends, often for several rooms. Rooms, offers, policies, the booking flow and the WhatsApp messages exist in Arabic and English, with Arabic search optimisation of their own.

FAQ

Common questions from hotel owners

Straight answers on cost, timelines, OTAs, booking engines, currencies, holiday-home permits and Arabic.

How much does a hotel website cost in Dubai?

A hotel or holiday-home site with rooms, offers, a gallery, policies and a booking enquiry fits our five-page Small Business Website at AED 2,490, with 3 months of free maintenance. A custom-designed hotel site starts from USD 1,200 (≈ AED 4,407). Connecting a booking engine with live rates and availability on your own domain starts from USD 1,800 (≈ AED 6,611), and a custom booking platform for a holiday-home operator or DMC from USD 3,500 (≈ AED 12,854). Every quote is a fixed price for a fixed scope.

How long does it take to launch?

A brochure site with rooms, offers and an enquiry form launches in about 2–3 weeks once we have your content and photography. Adding a booking engine, payment gateway and channel-manager sync takes most projects to 5–8 weeks, because every rate plan and policy is tested with real test bookings before it goes live. A holiday-home platform with owner and guest areas is typically 8–12 weeks. We launch in stages so the enquiry path is earning from week three.

Can we keep Booking.com and Expedia and still take direct bookings?

Yes, and you should. The online travel agencies stay for discovery, and your channel manager keeps rates and availability in sync everywhere. The website carries the reasons to book direct — the same rate plus a benefit only direct guests get, such as a late checkout, breakfast or a flexible cancellation — so returning guests, Google searchers and social-media followers book on your domain at full margin while new guests still find you in the apps.

Which booking engine do you use?

The one that works with your property-management system. Most hotels in the UAE already run a PMS whose vendor offers a booking engine and a channel manager; we embed it on your domain so the guest never leaves your site at the moment of payment, and we style it to match. Independent properties, holiday-home operators and tour companies without an engine get a light-weight booking flow we build and host, connected to a UAE payment gateway.

Can guests see prices in their own currency and pay online?

Yes. Rates are stored in AED and shown with a live approximate conversion to the guest's currency — USD, GBP, EUR, SAR, INR and others — with the AED charge made clear before payment. Deposits and full prepayments are taken through a UAE-local gateway or international cards with 3-D Secure, and pay-at-property remains an option for rate plans that allow it. Tourism, municipality and VAT charges are shown before checkout, not added after.

We run holiday homes in Dubai — what does the website need?

Holiday homes in Dubai operate under a Department of Economy and Tourism permit, and guests look for it. We give each unit a page with its permit number, building, bedrooms, amenities, house rules, an availability calendar and a booking or enquiry flow, plus an area page per community. Operators with many units get a search by area, dates and guests, owner statements and a channel-manager sync with the listing platforms.

Will the hotel website work in Arabic?

Yes. The Arabic version is a proper right-to-left site — rooms, offers, experiences, policies, the booking flow and the WhatsApp confirmations all exist in both languages, with Arabic search engine optimisation of its own. GCC guests who research in Arabic, book for Eid and the summer, and travel in family groups find the same information and book the same way as English-speaking guests.

How do I choose a hotel website company in Dubai?

Ask which booking engines they have embedded on a hotel's own domain, how they handle rate parity and the direct-only perk, whether fees and VAT show before checkout, and for the fixed price in writing. Make sure you own the domain, the guest data and the code.

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