What is the best way to create a direct(or indirect) booking site

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I'm familiar with wordpress and shopify, but I imagine there's maybe a 'direct' booking site platform out there we can host on our own domain? Right now I just want to direct link to my listing on Airbnb, but some features that would be helpful:

1. connecting a calendar and showing availability, then when someone clicks on it, they're directed to my airbnb listing

2. auto-importing all my airbnb photos/description over to the website without me doing much work

3. Basic instagram feed connection

Ruben Kanya · Answer

Definitely Guesty for hosts if you're looking to put up a site in less than 5 minutes. It will pull all of your listings, photos, descriptions etc.

Jason Hill · Answer

Do you have a channel manager? I've heard that most of them have a way to create a very simple direct booking site as part of the product. We use Guesty for Hosts, and I just used their feature to create one in about 2 minutes! So probably not our long-term solution, but it's at least a start! If you use a channel manager it probably has a similar feature.

Collin Hays · Answer

vacationrentaldesk.com

Daniel Murphy · Answer

We use Ownerrez as an API integration.

I'm only familiar with building a wix website but the ownerrez has widgets that easily import. The reviews, calendar, pricing etc. all import very easily with the widgets.

However, I built the web page for the listing because I wanted it to look like the Airbnb page to keep things consistent.

We're taking a slightly different approach & building a "local area guide" with a direct booking page attached. The long term goal is to get the local area guide to rank in google which will help bring more views to our direct listing.

www.capecoralforfamilies.com

www.capecoralforfamilies.com/s... for the direct booking.

What is the best way to create a direct(or indirect) booking site

What is the best way to create a direct(or indirect) booking site

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