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Resorts & Hotels
The platforms are your most expensive partner — and they own your guests.
An End-to-End Direct-Booking & Brand-Equity Engine, for a small number of fine resorts and hotels.
The booking platforms keep 18–25% on every OTA reservation — and they keep your guest’s name, too.
Begin with a complimentary 48-hour audit.
Direct Booking Margin
Unmasked Guest Data
Zero-Commission Demand
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Run the arithmetic with me, on a napkin.
The platforms take 18–25% on every OTA reservation. Put in your own figures and see what that is for your property.
And the guest?
That is the larger loss. The guest arrives masked. No email you may keep, no number you may call, no way to invite them back. So you rent the same guest again next year, at the same toll.
Your napkin
Annual booking volume through the platforms (USD)
Platform commission per reservation (18% to 25%)
Average daily rate (USD)
Average nights per stay
Compare against: Studio Retainer ($10,000/mo) or Studio Retainer + Marketing Machine ($15,000/mo)
Illustrative — your audit confirms your number. This arithmetic uses only the figures you entered. It is not a forecast and not a promise of savings, bookings, occupancy or revenue.
That is your bleed, sized. Tap, and I’ll pick up with your numbers.
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We build the opposite machine. Whoever owns the audience owns the margin. Here it is in four pillars.
The AI Micro-Drama Studio
Serialized one-minute episodes with your architecture, your suite and your restaurant native to the plot. Production is zero-footprint: seasons are built from your real photography and filmed assets, without closing a room or disturbing a single guest. A story travelers binge, instead of an ad they skip.
Retainer-Included Media & Distribution
The media money is inside the retainer. A set dollar amount of every month’s fee goes to working media in your funnel from day one. Campaigns are planned, built, run and managed across Meta and Google, plus the organic engine, working your property every month.
The OTA-Killer Concierge Funnel
One tap from any episode or offer opens a real conversation: the Closed User Group. Rate parity is worked legally — direct guests receive more, not cheaper: value-added bundles built from your own film and private member offers. One hundred percent of the guest data is first-party, and it is the property’s. A concierge answers around the clock.
Ancillary Revenue and the Capital Bridge
In-room, the season plays behind QR doors to the spa, the restaurant and tonight’s extended stay. Syndication reaches your past-guest list, inviting repeat stays, direct. And when the moment is right, one conversation bridges to diligence, valuation, debt and tokenization.
It plugs into your world. It never asks you to leave it.
Advisor B2B enablement kit
A ready-to-send kit for travel advisors: your film, your direct-booking door and your property’s advisor one-pager, packaged for the advisor channel.
Award-season SMS vote engine
When your property is up for an award, a compliant SMS vote drive runs to your opted-in list, with mechanics, windows and reporting handled for you.
Prestige title cards
Title cards and film frames styled to the prestige guides your property is listed in, produced for your films, posts and booking surfaces.
Soft-brand loyalty integration
Your direct-booking door and offers are mapped to your soft-brand loyalty program, so its members meet your property on your own channels.
OTA conquest layer
Brand-defense retargeting on your name, stills and motion loops built for the platforms’ own surfaces, and an in-room QR that invites the OTA guest to continue the relationship directly.
Flag co-op reimbursement packaging
For flagged properties, the engagement is packaged for your brand’s co-op marketing reimbursement process: invoices, proof of placement and reporting in the format the flag asks for.
Two chairs read this page. The engine serves both.
If you run the property
Production is zero-footprint, built from your own photography. Your luxury advisors get their own kit, never bypassed. Your prestige is amplified. The concierge answers around the clock without a single added headcount.
If you own the asset
The 18–25% paid on every OTA reservation is answered with parity-safe Closed User Group mechanics. Working media is bundled inside the retainer, not billed on top. The whole engine reconciles monthly on one dashboard, because what it protects is NOI.
That is the whole process. Tap, and we start with your audit.
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The Resort & Hotel Marketing Program
The standing engagement is a monthly retainer, priced like a partner, not a platform.
Studio Retainer
$10,000/mo
Working media is included in the retainer every month, contractually allocated from day one.
Your property’s own studio and ad agency, on retainer — launch films of your property on a monthly cadence, campaigns planned, built, and managed for you.
Launch films of your property, on a monthly cadence — the first film is the foundation; the cadence is the strategy.
Paid campaign build and management across Meta and Google, promoting your property and your own booking site. The guest books direct with you.
Organic campaigns — our posts, films, and social distribution working your property continuously.
The door system — every asset carries one tap-to-chat door, WhatsApp or SMS by your guests’ geography, answered by a concierge who knows your property.
A monthly letter: what ran, what it produced in direct-demand activity, and what changes next.
It opens with the Signature Premiere (the first 60 days)
A three-episode arc starring your property · A digital-twin cameo in the series · The organic launch kit · Retargeting set up and running from day one. Then the season continues, month after month, under the same Studio Retainer.
Studio Retainer + Marketing Machine
$15,000/mo
A larger working-media allocation is included in the retainer every month, contractually allocated from day one.
Everything in the Studio Retainer, at full volume — plus placement priority and the full marketing machine: campaigns plus continuous remarketing.
More films, more cuts, every month — the full volume of the studio: flagship films and the short cuts each channel asks for.
Placement priority — your property goes first in the cross-marketing rotation across the Embodier surfaces.
The full marketing machine — campaigns plus continuous remarketing to film viewers, site visitors, and conversation starters, all month.
Not included: OTA or metasearch placement fees; travel and production expenses for on-location shoots beyond the agreed schedule.
Nothing is due to start — it begins with the complimentary 48-hour audit.
The Performance Rollover
A trust clause, written into the agreement: if, 90 days from launch, the funnel has produced fewer than 1,000 verified opt-ins and measurable direct-booking clicks, the Month 4 management fee is waived — and your media allocation keeps running. It is a contractual fact, not a promise of results.
Reported like a banker, on one dashboard
Promo-code redemptions: —
Direct booking revenue: —
OTA commission avoided: —
Preview. No figures are shown before they exist. Results are reported, never promised.
Your brand, inside the story
Your property is the set, not an ad break. Our characters carry it into the season — the drama is the distribution.
Native to the plot
A three-episode micro-drama arc with your property native to the plot. Every collaboration is identified as sponsored content.
Placement priority
On the Studio Retainer + Marketing Machine, your property goes first in the cross-marketing rotation across the Embodier surfaces.
Flags and portfolios
A flagship film for the brand, films for each property on the schedule, one door and one concierge standard. Scope and fees are set per portfolio. For flagged properties, it runs as field marketing for your own building, with brand standards respected throughout.
Travel is part of every Embodier world
Your films travel too. Resort episodes and cuts are placed on the Embodier travel channels, framed as travel and nothing else.
Featured distribution is reported as placements delivered, with the views those placements actually got.
When the moment is right, the same house stands behind the film
Diligence, valuation and debt structuring
A due-diligence package assembled to bank standard, valuation, and debt-structuring counsel — senior, documented, underwritten to bank standards.
Tokenization readiness
Your property, structured for the marketplace we are building (registrations in preparation). The amount you ever tokenize, including none, is always your election. See Tokenize Your Property.
Principal acquisition
Some owners would rather sell. Embodier acquires boutique resorts as a principal and holds them for the long term. If that is your conversation, Valencia routes it quietly.
Begin with the audit — complimentary, 48 hours. We study your bookings, your platform mix, your reviews and your competitive set, and we confirm your own number before we propose anything.
If we cannot move it, we say so.
Nothing is due to start. Tap, and the audit begins here.
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This page describes marketing and film services only. Our film, marketing, and placement services are separate commercial offerings and do not imply any investment relationship or guaranteed outcome.