Island and resort properties are the richest hotel markets on earth and the most intermediated. Guests book months ahead from thousands of kilometres away, on trust built entirely from what they can read, and the properties that own that reading material pay far less to sell the same room.
hotel ADR in St Barts, the highest of any market tracked. The five highest-rate hotel markets STR tracks are all islands.
STR, twelve months to October 2024.of bookings intermediated for independent island resorts, the most channel-dependent segment in hospitality.
Estimate, from the island market scan, August 2026.the commission band island resorts pay, against roughly 3.5 percent for a direct booking.
D-EDGE own-client average, 2025.Occupancy fell in several major island markets in 2025 while rate rose, and new supply is opening in most of them. That combination makes every incremental direct booking worth hundreds of dollars and makes distribution cost the pressure point rather than demand.
Property and room pages that answer what guests actually ask, a complete Google Business Profile, consistent details across the sites engines read, presence in the guides and reviews they cite, and a monthly prompt panel.
RetentionGuest records captured at booking and at stay, pre-arrival and post-stay messages written in the property's voice, and offers to past guests before rates go to a channel.
MeasurementTracking that survives the jump from your website to the booking engine: linker and domain configuration, click IDs passed into the reservation, a first-party tag domain, and server-side conversions from the reservation itself.