Castles in France
In France, the castles constitute an exceptional architectural and historical heritage. The Ministry of Culture lists no fewer than 11,000 listed châteauxThere are also a large number of unlisted buildings. In total, there are an estimated 45,000 châteaux in France, bearing witness to a rich and varied past.
The Dordogne, often referred to as "the region of a thousand and one châteaux", has the highest concentration of these emblematic monuments. However, the management and upkeep of these imposing edifices represent considerable costs. This explains why many owners, 90 % of whom are private individuals, choose to make the most of their property by exploiting it for a variety of purposes. The most common uses include :
- Museum
- Prestige hotel
- An exceptional garden
- Gourmet restaurant
- Business park
- Vineyard
- Bed and breakfast
With the emergence of online platforms, castle owners can now reach a wide audience by showcasing their heritage through dedicated websites. Hotel Web Design supports castle owners in this approach, offering them tailor-made digital solutions to showcase their property and attract national and international clientele.
Our web creations for châteaux & residences
Hotel Web Design is a Google partner with the Google Hotelsincluding our customers enjoy every dayGoogle search: information about your accommodation, availability and prices is sent continuously to the search engine, which displays free booking links from the Google search directly to your booking page. These free links represent between 10% and 15% of additional commission-free bookings for our customers! Read our article on free booking links from Google
Communication agency for Châteaux & demeures d'exception
We work with owners of châteaux and residences who want to develop their business in the hotel, restaurant or tourism sectors. With our innovative solutions, we add value to your heritage by creating websites with a strong emotional dimension, tailored to your image.
By creating a website dedicated to your business, you not only strengthen your credibility with your customers, but also free yourself from the constraints imposed by external platforms (high commissions on booking engineslimited visibility). Investing in your own custom-designed website is a sustainable, long-term strategy that gives you total control over your image and communications.
Our different packages offer you a solution tailored to your needs: choose between a showcase sitea site with integrated booking engineor a e-commerce website with online payment. This allows you to easily manage all your sales and products from an intuitive interface. In addition, discover our hotel booking engine and channel managerto optimise the management of your bookings and maximise your revenue.
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Our web offer for châteaux and residences
- A website " Responsive Design" (mobile-friendly), scalable (can be easily adapted over time without major structural changes) and owner: the site belongs to you.
- Installing your booking engine or our driving force 100% independent, non-commissioned and synchronised with OTAs
- Optimised code and declaration of your new site Google and Bing search engines.
- For greater international visibility, the sites we create are multilingual. This means that your display site is also visible in the country of origin of your foreign customers. This is a decisive competitive advantage in terms of referencing.
- From optimised keywords to generate maximum traffic to your website. To do this, a keyword study will be carried out beforehand, and a meeting will be held with you to determine the best referencing opportunities for your château / residence.
- Installation of Google Analytics to monitor the website's performance.
- Setting up a user interface so that you can change the content, prices and images yourself, completely independently
- Training to this user interface
We can also offer you monthly packages for managing and renewing your domain name, hosting, email, maintenance and technical/editorial support.
The website database is backed up daily and enhanced security is systematically put in place to protect you against malicious acts.
Your web agency for châteaux & demeures offers you a made-to-measure service
An all-inclusive package so you can concentrate on your core business
Why entrust the creation of your château's website to us?
As well as benefiting from a non-commissioned site for which long-term SEO work can be carried out, there are other significant advantages.
You always have the upper hand.
The advantage of having a site built for your château is, of course, that you can keep full control of the website. The content management interface, which you will be trained to use, is very easy to use.
We are very available.
Our customers are delighted with the high availability and speed of our support service. We remain available to make any changes to your website that you would prefer not to make yourself.
You have powerful analysis tools at your disposal
Google Analytics and Google Search Console will be installed on your site, giving you precise, live feedback on the traffic to your site and the terms used to find it.
You work with an agency dedicated to the hotel industry
Our many years of dedication to the hotel, restaurant and tourism industry have given us a deep understanding of this sector. The many partnerships we have developed over the years are of direct benefit to you.
They have entrusted us with the management of their online communications
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