From hoteliers for hoteliers

WE MAKE
YOUR HOTEL
DIGITAL READY.

In 2 hours maximum. With a platform that has it all:
Fast, smart and effective.
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CEO Thomas Müller

ONE PLATFORM - FIVE BUILDING BLOCKS

Everything you need to successfully sell hotel rooms online.

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Being a hotelier is exhausting. And often there is hardly any time left for the most important thing - improving the yield. We understand that all too well. But if you are well positioned online, you have amazing opportunities to increase your profits. rainmaker's 5 Stages of Success links all optimization building blocks in one platform. From "A" like attracting attention to "Z" like selling rooms.
Quick to set up, easy to use
and with every further step a new
sense of achievement.
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rainmaker.travel has shown us a clearly understandable and easily manageable way, even in the hustle and bustle of everyday life, to better position and market our hotel digitally in a holistic way. As a result, we have received far more direct bookings and inquiries than ever before and are much less dependent on the platforms. We were fortunate to secure Thomas Müller as project manager for the restructuring of our entire digital and IT infrastructure across all rooms and the public areas of our family-run, 30-room hotel. Through his extensive hotel experience and his tireless patience, we as owners, as well as our employees, have achieved a great deal of sovereignty and security in dealing with the digital and IT matters in our hotel.

- Martin Ruschitzka, Hotel Hubertus Schliersee -

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Are you still dependent on OTAs to sell your rooms? We have a better idea! With the 5 Stages of Success you take back full control of your hotel's digital appeal: WHERE, by WHOM and most importantly HOW you are seen. This has three big advantages:

MORE
FAVORITE GUESTS.

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You do not attract just anyone, but exactly the guests who fit your house: People who appreciate your offer and are willing to pay the price for it. Guests who book directly on your website and save you thousands of euros in commissions.

MORE SALES
AND PROFIT.

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As an independent hotel brand, you stand out: Google and website visitors recognize the value of your hotel at first glance. You get room rates that are appropriate for your offer.

MORE TIME FOR
THE ESSENTIALS.

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With real favorite guests and healthy turnover, there are fewer problems: you can invest in your hotel experience and you can afford good staff. The fun of your hotel and being a host comes back.
rainmaker.travel is made by hoteliers for hoteliers.
Without any complicated frippery.

YOUR DIGITAL
HEALTH CHECK

How to sell your hotel online independently and successfully.

If you want to know how your hotel stands online,
request your free digital health check.
IN FIVE STAGES
TO SUCCESS

STAGE 1

VISIBILITY
MAXIMIZE AND

INCREASE AWARENESS.

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There are hundreds of ways to book a hotel online. The key to success is to always show up exactly where your guests are looking.
We make sure your hotel can be found on the 35+ most important and popular platforms. Whether people are browsing the online business directory, searching on Instagram, asking Amazon's Alexa, or typing you into their car's sat nav. Your hotel is already there.
Always findable and everywhere with the same accurate strong appearance. The constant visibility increases the recognition value of your hotel and your level of awareness. You will be found more easily and displayed more often by Google & Co.
This strategy alone will land up to 25% more visitors on your website.
We'll show you how it's done.
Arrange your free demo or consultation appointment:
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With the introduction of rainmaker 5 Stages of Success in all our hotels, we have for the first time created a holistic 360° overview of the hotel's digital presence. We have benefited especially from the Stage 1 .

This way, we always have an eye on improving visibility. Changes can be made in a flash and immediately checked for correctness in all platforms and systems.

An increase in visibility has been noticed especially for our small houses. For example, in a short time we were able to improve from the middle of page 2 to page 1 in generic Google searches, which in turn contributes to more website visitors in the Stage 2 .

The rainmaker 5 Stages of Success make it easier for us to maintain and organize our numerous accounts for all of our hotels on a day-to-day basis. Smart solutions, supported by artificial intelligence and clear 360° dashboards and reports reduce many time wasters in everyday life and create spaces for other essential work.

Nadine Rüther, Head of Marketing & PR,
Hackmann Hotels

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STAGE 2

HOTEL WEBSITE
FOR SALE

OPTIMIZE.

The most beautiful website is worthless if it only serves as a hotel brochure. Your guests should book, and book directly. Here with you.

To do this, we maximize the sales potential of your website. Based on current studies on user behavior, we pick up your guest where he is on his "shopping trip" and bring him safely to his destination. This way, they book directly with you and you do not pay any commission.

In addition, we take care of all the technical and time-consuming details of your website maintenance - from hosting to security to search engine optimization and all your content changes. A critical point for your sales success.
With rainmaker.travel you are always technically up to date. Without having to invest in a new online presence every few years. Your hotel is directly accessible from 200+ Google data centers worldwide. This ensures that your hotel loads in a few seconds even in Timbuktu. Plus, you can easily track your site's performance at any time with visual graphs.
With a technically perfect and flawless website, your visibility immediately increases many times. Now guests feel comfortable in your "online store". This leads to up to 20% more direct bookings.
Want to know how we do it?
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Our annual occupancy increased from 42% to 73% through direct bookings through our new website, while completely eliminating seasonality for our business. Our profit increased so dramatically we could hardly believe it."

Stephan Hock, Immanuel Lodge 

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STAGE 3

GUEST REVIEWS
targeted use.

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Clearly and at a glance, rainmaker. travel shows you your hotel reviews on over 20 review platforms. Reviews that you can conveniently share from here on social networks and your website.
One click and the answer to your guest comments will be suggested automatically. You accept or change details. Done. Some people call this artificial intelligence.
By analyzing all ratings, we can also show you exactly where your hotel performs excellently, where it meets expectations and where you can optimize your offer. This way you can increase your rating from e.g. 4.4 to 4.8 in a short time.
Guest reviews build trust with guests who don't know your hotel yet. This trust is important to get more direct bookings. With guest reviews, you also manage to make your hotel even more visible.
We'll show you how it's done.
Arrange your free demo appointment:
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Through integrated guest review acquisition, we have significantly improved the number of reviews for our own website and Google Business. The smart text wizards also save us 90% of the time to respond to reviews and we can now respond to all reviews in a timely manner, which builds trust with guests and increases our direct bookings.

Ruth & Mario Tiek, Hotel & Apartments Tiek

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STAGE 4

WITH SOCIAL
MEDIA BRING MORE GUESTS

BRING MORE GUESTS TO THE WEBSITE.

Anyone who has ever done it knows how time-consuming it is to publish content on social networks: What or what am I writing about today? So how does this platform or app work again? That is also quite simple with rainmaker.travel.
We show you Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter and your Google Business profile at a glance. You can publish attractive posts on all channels directly and with one click. To support you, we have also integrated intelligent text assistants that provide you with many beautiful text and image ideas at the push of a button and deliver them fully automatically for you in the coming days and weeks.
What works well? Which posts are attracting less interest from the target group? You get precise data on this after each publication. Everything at a glance and with one click.
If your hotel continuously appears on social networks with good posts, your level of awareness will increase. The result: more attention, increasing numbers of guests and higher profit through increasing direct bookings.
We'll show you how it's done.
Arrange your free demo or consultation appointment:
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Wow, what a reduction in workload. Thanks to the rainmaker application "5 Stages of Success", the Stage 4 - Social Media & Digital Advertising brings an unspeakable gain in time. With one post all social media platforms play, each with their appropriate image sizes, max. character count, etc. and with very few clicks.

You can use the templates very well to pre-record hashtags depending on the topic. That makes it even faster. And then there are the text suggestions from the text wizards. Especially for a small business like ours, this tool is a real asset.

None of the common social media management tools on the market offers such an easy and fast way of working.

What's more, the products on the market are either too complicated or extremely expensive.

At rainmaker there is the perfect alternative for hotels, because made by hoteliers.

Yvonne & Carsten Schnoor, Boutique Hotel Cortijo El Sarmiento

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STAGE 5

BOOKINGS SEAMLESS
AND CLEARLY
ADMINISTRATE.

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The 3 most important hotel systems united on one platform. Hotel management doesn't get any more ingenious than this.

Property Management System, Reservation System and of course the Channel Manager, which is connected to all major booking platforms and tour operators.

By merging the three programs into one holistic system, you have access to all important data at any time: Inquiries, offers, guest correspondence, occupancy plans and reservations from all sales channels as well as all relevant statistics. Online check-in, direct payment - it's all integrated and maximally flexible. For 3 rooms or for 100 rooms.
They keep an eye on all booking platforms, pass on availabilities fully automatically and synchronously, and ensure a smooth booking and payment process - online and at the hotel itself. rainmaker.travel's integrated "Revenue & Yield" management strategy also ensures better occupancy, a noticeably higher yield, and less dependence on specific distribution platforms.
All the information you need to make decisions that move your hotel forward. Clear, intuitive and remarkably effective - making it fun to work in a relaxed way.
We'll show you how it's done.
Arrange your free demo appointment:
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With the 5 Stages of Success the professional team of rainmaker.traveL has freed us again from the dependence of the booking portals.

With the great and integrated hotel program, seamless website booking and payment, as well as the built-in channel manager, the 5 Stages of Success have provided significant simplification to our overall operations.

From booking to payment, check-in to check-out, as well as guest evaluation and response, this system makes daily operations a breeze.

Our ADR has also improved by 18% in just 2 months by using the 5 Stages of Success . We can only recommend the 5 Stages of Success to every hotelier.

Just try it out.

Dagmar and Bernhard Kuhr, Old Inn Kuhr Papenburg

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WE BELIEVE,
THAT ALL HOTELS SHOULD HAVE THE POSSIBILITY
SHOULD HAVE THE POSSIBILITY TO
TO SELL.

 

DEMOCRATIC, FAIR and PRICED.
The rainmaker.travel PRICE MODEL.

 

We want you to be successful. It's that simple. The hotel industry is full of great hosts and hotel experiences, and we want people to finally see that.

That's why we've come up with a pricing model that EVERY HOTEL can afford. We don't leave you out, we take you with us. No matter if you have 3 rooms or 100 rooms, an occupancy rate of 40% or 70%, or a room rate of € 50 or € 150 per night.

The 5 Stages of Success are there for EVERY HOTELIER .

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OUR
PERFORMANCE
MODULES

We flexibly adapt to your wishes:

DO-IT-YOURSELF
DO IT YOURSELF.

You get from us all the applications of the 5 Stages of Success, but have your own staff and all the knowledge in house to deal with it. Of course, our experienced customer service is always at your disposal.
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DO-IT-WITH-ME
DO IT WITH ME.

You get from us the entire applications of the 5 Stages of Success. In doing so, we either take over certain tasks for which you lack the time or previous knowledge and/or we coach and guide you and your employees until they are able to use our DIY - Do It Yourself offer. You can easily switch at any time.
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DO-IT-FOR-ME
DO IT FOR ME

You will get from us the whole applications of the 5 Stages of Success. All applications and activities of the 5 Stages of Success are taken over by our experienced team. You can focus entirely on making your guests happy. We make sure that you have enough guests in the house at economically sustainable conditions.
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ABOUT THE RAINMAKER
THOMAS MÜLLER

If you ask Thomas Müller how rainmaker.travel came about, he will tell you the following:
"I remember the beginning of my journey, the moment I discovered the hotel industry and tourism - fascinated by the endless possibilities that stretched before me. That was in 1994, when I first came to Africa, Namibia to be precise. The pristine beauty, rich culture and warm-hearted people took my heart by storm."

40 years in IT, software development, product and business development, consulting, marketing and sales at companies such as IBM, Vodafone, Thomas Cook and TUI shaped Thomas and made him the successful entrepreneur, thought leader and visionary he is today.

But it was Africa that changed his life and ignited his passion for the hotel industry. For TUI and Thomas Cook, for example, he worked in all Aldiana Clubs and Robinson Clubs. He has lived and worked in eight different countries in Europe and Africa and has been involved in six hotel openings.

He started with individual lodges for which he designed websites in Namibia to improve marketing and sales. Word of their success spread quickly and demand grew.

Together with his colleague Bruce Hutchison, he founded the first Namibian hotel management company, took over two loss-making hotels and made them successful again in three years. With great vision and attention to detail, the two developed a hotel that won a design award a year after its successful opening and is now the leading hotel in Namibia. The Strandhotel Swakopmund. A remarkable hotel concept was born.

This is how the "5 Stages of Success" came into being, which has now also been supporting hoteliers on the German-speaking market since 2021. Thomas Müller is a passionate hotelier, entrepreneur and doer. With vision and expertise, he drives the democratization of technology for emerging and independent hotel and tourism businesses.

The support needed to promote economic sustainability for sustainable tourism development.

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