1. Start on the Right Path
Don't be fooled that lowering your price to beat your competition will not result in all hostels gaining less income per booking. EVERY HOSTEL has to gain a balance of bookings from agents and their own website to maintain fair profitability.
2. Your Website and the Agent Websites
Your website is necessary and being listed on some agent websites like Hostelworld is necessary. But if you list your hostel on 20 agent websites then you create competition against your own website and cause your hostel to be put on a path of lowering the price as the only way to gain more bookings.
3. Highest Possible Occupancy
Don't be fooled that allocating beds to guests at the time of arrival instead of at the time they made the booking is a good thing for your hostel. It only takes a few friends to be split in to different rooms to give your hostel low ratings. Our system of selling your one room under multiple bed types is a far superior solution to gain higher occupancy.
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