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Property performance · the two levers that survive scrutiny

What owning the guest relationship is worth

Lifestyle · 25hours / Mondrian class · 174 keys · ADR $420 · 78% occ. No invented spa numbers. Only the two levers verified by research: clawing back the OTA-commission cost when a guest rebooks direct, and the one peer-reviewed revenue lever — well-framed upsell at ~100% margin. The relationship that drives both is built in the concierge thread and measured here from the same taste signal.

MEASURED taste pilot (0 events · 0 guests engaged)·MODEL property + distribution mix·INDUSTRY Kalibri net-capture · IHG direct skew · Cornell framing

No live signal in this world yet — rates show as zero. Run the concierge thread to populate.

OTA-commission clawback / yr

MEASURED

$0

$0/mo — the ~15-pt capture gap on rebookings pulled direct. Near-pure margin.

Rebookings pulled OTA→direct / mo

INDUSTRY

0

Repeat guests are ~10× more likely to book direct (IHG). Each one avoids $0 commission.

Framed-upsell GOP / mo

MEASURED

$0

0% take rate × ~100% margin. The only peer-reviewed revenue lever (Cornell).

Total incremental GOP / yr

MEASURED

$0

Clawback + framed upsell. The number you'd multiply across the estate.

Lever 1 — the OTA→direct clawback, line by line

MODEL
Arrivals / mo1,851stays
Currently via OTA42%777 stays
Engage the concierge thread55%MODEL
…who form a relationship (book/save)0%MEASURED — capped funnel
…who'd then rebook direct vs OTA50%MODEL
→ Rebookings pulled direct / mo0stays
Room revenue per stay$9242.2 nights × ADR
Capture gain per shifted stay$13995% direct − 80% OTA
OTA-commission clawback / mo$0$0/yr

Reality check — for finance, not marketing

Two MODEL assumptions are where you'd push back, and they're isolated so you can: the share of OTA guests we can actually pull direct (50%), and the OTA mix today (42%). Everything else is either measured from the pilot or an industry benchmark.

  1. What is this property's real OTA-vs-direct mix, and the blended commission?
  2. Of guests who form a relationship, what share realistically rebook direct within a year?
  3. Is the framed-upsell margin really ~100% here, or does fulfilment carry cost?

What this deliberately does NOT claim: a spa/experience ancillary lift. Those numbers couldn't be verified, so they're not here. The experiences are the hook that earns the relationship — the relationship is what claws back the commission. That clawback is the defensible number.