Less money in. More demand out.
Across an independent-hotel portfolio of 16+ properties, audited 2024–2026: 41% less wasted ad spend, 61% cheaper traffic, 46% more clicks.
AI growth marketing for hotels, resorts, and accommodations
Promotes rooms.Answers guests.Books stays.So you don’t have to.
ely is the managed AI service that promotes your hotel, answers inquiries, and books your guests — so you don’t have to. It runs on your approved knowledge, follows your strategy and brand, and is managed and monitored by real people.
ely promotes, answers and books for your hotel — on your approved knowledge, managed by real people.
1 in 3guest messages arrive after hoursAgentZap, 2026
9+ yearsPH & AU100+properties marketed100%client retention since 2024 · no churn in the managed portfolio58languages
1 in 3guest messages arrive after hoursAgentZap, 2026
LOKAL’s clients include
PROOF FIRST
Nine years of growth work. Now for your hotel.
The team behind ely has run growth for Philippine and Australian businesses for nine-plus years — the same people, the same standards, now pointed at your front desk.
- 9+years running growth in PH & AU
- 65+clients since inception
- ★5.0on Google
“Attentive, professional, and dedicated. LOKAL's guidance and effective marketing strategies made a real difference to our business performance.”
ONE TUESDAY, RUN BY ELY
More than a chatbot. A team for growth.
ely launches the promo, answers what comes in — on every channel — and books the caller at 9 PM. One Tuesday, start to finish.
Promotions that run themselves — Korean guests keep finding the hotel, and the roadmap you approved says lean in. So ely launches the campaign — a Korean landing page, the posts, the chat answers — and texts you the summary. It’s already live.
Start of engagement · Roadmap
Roadmap built with ely by an ely human operator; you approved it: international guests first.
9:41 AM · ely · Signal
Korean guests keep finding the hotel — searches, map views and chats, all in Korean.
9:42 AM · ely
A Korean landing page, the posts, and chat answers in Korean — all quoting the direct rate.
9:44 AM · Live
Live on your website and socials; ely now answers in Korean the moment anyone asks. Reply UNDO to pull it.
elyLIVE Roadmap · international guests first · approved by you
Heads up — Korean guests keep finding us: searches, map views and chats, all in Korean. The roadmap says international guests first, so I’ve drafted a Korean-season campaign.
Drafted — a Korean landing page, Facebook and Instagram posts, and chat answers in Korean, all quoting the direct rate. Publishing now.
Live. The Korean page is on your website, the posts are up, and I’m answering in Korean. Reply UNDO to pull it.
Korean season전용 해변 · direct rate · 한국어 상담yourhotel.ph/koLive · In two languages
Talk to your guests in 58 languages — A guest from Seoul taps the campaign and asks about the beach, in Korean. ely answers from your approved knowledge, sends the photos, and quotes the Family Room at the direct rate.
2:14 PM · WhatsApp · Guest
The first question arrives — straight off the campaign.
2:14 PM · ely
Answered in Korean, from your approved knowledge — with the photos and the direct rate.
2:16 PM · Rate quoted
Family Room, Dec 20–22, at the direct rate — she’s checking with her family.
elyLIVE 이 리조트에 프라이빗 비치가 있나요?
네 — 전용 해변이 있어요. 사진 보여드릴까요?
감사합니다 — 가족과 상의하고 다시 연락드릴게요.
네, 언제든지요! 패밀리룸은 12월 20–22일 예약 가능해요 — 직접 예약가로요.
Answered · Rate quoted
Bookings that come in by phone — After dinner she calls to confirm. ely takes the call in Korean, remembers the afternoon’s chat, and books the Family Room straight into your system — direct, no OTA in between.
9:20 PM · Phone call · Guest
“We’ll take it — December 20 to 22.” — on a live call, in Korean.
9:20 PM · ely
Answered in Korean, remembered the afternoon’s conversation, confirmed the direct rate.
9:23 PM · Booked direct
Family Room, Dec 20–22, on your own system — no OTA in between.
elyLIVE 안녕하세요, 오후에 문의드렸던 사람인데요 — 패밀리룸 12월 20일부터 22일까지로 예약할게요.
네, 기억하고 있어요! 패밀리룸, 12월 20일부터 22일까지 — 직접 예약가로 예약해 드렸습니다. 12월에 뵙겠습니다!
Booked direct · Family Room · Dec 20–22
Answered · Booked direct
Runs on your approved knowledgeHands off to a human when unsureEvery conversation loggedUndo anything with one messageYou own the websiteWe never touch your money
WORKS WITH YOU
Runs for you. Works with you.
Everything above ran on its own. This is the other half: you and your staff work with ely the way you’d work with a colleague — a message, an upload, a monthly review. No dashboards to learn, no tickets to file.
Change your website with one message — Text ely a promo on Viber the way you’d text a colleague. It drafts the page, the banner and the chat answer, publishes them, and quotes the offer to guests. Reply UNDO and it’s gone.
9:41 AM · Viber · You
One message, in your own words.
9:42 AM · ely
Page, banner and chat answer drafted — and published.
9:44 AM · Live
Live on your website; ely is quoting it to guests. Reply UNDO to pull it.
elyLIVE ely, run a Long Weekend promo — 15% off Deluxe rooms, Sept 25–27.
On it — promo page, banner and chat answer drafted from your message. Publishing now.
Live. It’s on your website and I’m quoting it to guests. Reply UNDO to pull it.
Long Weekend promo15% off Deluxe rooms, Sept 25–27yourhotel.phLive · Undo by message
Visibility, reviewed monthly — Every month ely’s agents review your whole search picture — Google, AI assistants, your Google Business profile — and bring you the changes worth making, ranked. You say go; ely does the work inside the roadmap.
1st of the month · ely · Review
The monthly review lands: where you showed up in Google and AI answers, what slipped, what’s growing.
· ely · Recommends
Three changes, ranked: rewrite the Family Room page in the words guests search, add the structured data assistants read, answer the open Google Business questions.
· You · Go
One word back. The changes land this week, inside the roadmap.
elyLIVE Monthly review · search + AI visibility · ranked recommendations
This month’s review is in. Three changes worth making: rewrite the Family Room page in the words guests search, add the structured data assistants read, and answer two open Google Business questions. Say go and I’ll take all three.
Go.
Done — all three land this week. Next month’s review will show the movement.
Reviewed · Recommended · Done
One look, everywhere — The front desk uploads six phone photos of the pool. ely colour-matches them to your brand, crops them for every format, captions them in your voice — a fresh brand kit, and a week of posts scheduled by 4:35.
4:30 PM · Front desk · Upload
Six new pool photos, straight from a phone.
4:31 PM · ely
Colour-matched to your brand, cropped for every format, captioned in your voice. Gallery updated.
4:35 PM · Scheduled
A week of posts scheduled across Facebook and Instagram — the same hotel, the same look, every time.
Brand kit 
“Pool's open till 10 tonight. Lanterns on at 6.”Brand coloursYour voiceEvery format On-brand · Scheduled
PEOPLE IN THE LOOP
Automated. Not unattended.
A lot of this runs on its own. None of it runs alone — ely human operators think ahead of the AI, correct it, and answer for it.
01
Think
An ely human operator sets what ely pushes this month: the slow weekends, the season ahead, the guest you want more of. The AI executes the plan. A person writes it.
02
Nudge
People review what ely proposes and fix the call before it compounds — the photo, the offer, the tone, the timing — before it goes live.
03
Lead
One accountable team you can message. When something matters, you talk to a person, not a ticket — and they answer for what the AI did.
Managed AI service, staffed by LOKAL.
One Global Place, BGC, Taguig★5.0 on GoogleA named team accountable to you
THE WHOLE JOURNEY
58 languages, across the whole guest journey.
From the first question to the next stay — ely speaks your guest’s language at every step, on the channel they already use.
01 Awareness
Website · Korean
이 리조트에 프라이빗 비치가 있나요?
네 — 전용 해변이 있어요. 사진 보여드릴까요?
“Is there a private beach?” — answered in Korean, on your website.
02 Booking
WhatsApp · English
Do you have a family room for Dec 20–22?
We do — want me to book it direct on your website?
A midnight enquiry becomes a direct booking.
03 Stay
Viber · Taglish
Pwede po ba mag-request ng extra towels sa Room 204?
Sige po — on the way na sa 204.
Requests handled in the guest’s own words.
04 Return
Phone call · Chinese
我们十二月想再来住一次。
欢迎回来 — 我帮您直接预订。
“We’d like to come back in December.” — handled on a live call, booked direct.
How much are OTAs taking from you?
Do the math on your own numbers — and see what every direct booking keeps.
Average booking value₱9,000· illustrative
Potential margin retained18% illustrative rate
per monthper year
Illustrative estimate at an 18% average OTA commission (typical range 15–25%, Cloudbeds 2026).
Do the math →Eight capabilities. One hotel brain.
ChatLIVE
One chat for enquiries, guests and staff — end to end, in 58 languages.
VoiceLIVE
The AI that answers your phone — and books callers straight into your booking system.
InsightsLIVE
Reporting you’ll actually read — how your hotel and ely are doing, at a glance.
BookingsCLOSED BETA
A safe, secure booking engine, native to AI and chat — direct on your own website.
WebsiteCLOSED BETA
Beautiful hotel websites built to convert — and to promote what you’re selling.
BrandCLOSED BETA
Brand kits, captions and assets generated from your own branding and guidelines.
VisibilityCLOSED BETA
Automated agents researching and adjusting your property to show up more in Google and AI answers.
CampaignsCLOSED BETA
Promos, ads and strategies generated, launched and tuned — inside your roadmap.
Every capability feeds the same brain — so conversations become bookings, the website learns from what guests ask, and one question gets a real answer.
HOSPITALITY IS THE JOB
Built by hospitality people. Proven on hotels.
Nine years running growth for Philippine properties. The numbers below come from our 2026 Proof of Work — real portfolio results, anonymized.
We drive AI traffic for hotels.
We rebuilt one hotel group’s website for answer engines — five AI systems responded in the same month. Organic search up 45% in month one; AI-assistant referrals up 2.1×.
And AI sends the best guests.
AI-referred visitors engage at 85.2% — the highest of any traffic source across the ~2.5 million hotel sessions we measure each quarter.
From the 2026 Proof of Work
- 1,500+
- guest enquiries handled by ely monthly, per flagship resort24/7 · 58 languages
- 61%
- of PH independent hotels are invisible to AI — the gap ely closesLOKAL Hospitality Visibility Index, 2026
- 100%
- client retention since 2024no churn in the managed portfolio
- 9+ years
- running growth in PH & AU
- 100+
- properties marketed
- 65+
- clients since inception
★ Verified Google review
“Attentive, professional, and dedicated. LOKAL's guidance and effective marketing strategies made a real difference to our business performance.”
Start small. Grow when it works.
No two hotels are the same — so we don’t pretend one price fits all. Start with what your hotel needs, in pesos, and grow as ely earns it. Join the waitlist and we’ll scope your bundle together.
- Monthly, in pesos
- Start with what you need
- Onboarding included
- GCash
- Maya
- Bank
- Card
Included in your monthly bundle
- One monthly bill
- Onboarding included
- You own everything
- Results reported monthly
- Website
- Viber
- Call
Hotel marketing waitlist
Make it easy, make it ely.
ely is rolling out hotel by hotel. Join the waitlist and we’ll walk you through ely working on a real hotel when your slot opens.
Start with your work email, add four details, and your place is saved.
Early hotels get the first slots · no obligation.
Start with your work email
What happens next
When your slot opens we’ll email you — or message the mobile you gave us, whichever reaches you faster. There’s nothing else to do.
While you wait, here’s the kind of question Ely answers.