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Jodhpur’s favourite snack. Our pages load faster than it gets eaten.
Every OTA booking hands over a large commission. A direct booking costs you a WhatsApp reply.
Rajasthan set new visitor records in 2024 and 2025, Jodhpur crossed 38 lakh visits, and a bigger airport terminal opened in July. The question for an independent property is how many of those guests reach you directly.
Up from 23.01 cr in 2024. Foreign visits slipped to 19.45 lakh from 20.72 lakh, a smaller fall than India’s overall. Foreign visits by year:
About 37 lakh domestic and 1.13 lakh foreign, against roughly 10 lakh in 2019. The tourism department says visitors now stay 2–3 nights instead of one.
Third in Rajasthan for foreign visitors in the first half of 2026; Jaipur was first. These guests compare properties online, often in French or German.
Up 4.7%. A new ₹480 cr terminal opened on 4 July 2026 with capacity for 20 lakh passengers a year.
Against a standard 15% at Booking.com, per the complaint that led the CCI to fine MMT-Go ₹223 cr in 2022. Current guides put MakeMyTrip at 18–22%.
Global figure. OTA bookings were cancelled 21.8% of the time against 10.6% for direct bookings, and hotel websites earned the highest value per booking.
Up from 5 rooms, with up to 24 beds, temporary registration within 7 working days and Silver and Gold grades. How many homestays are registered in Jodhpur: not published.
Sources: Rajasthan Tourism Department figures via Union Tourism Minister’s Rajya Sabha reply (August 2026), Business Standard (January 2026) and Amar Ujala (September 2026); Jodhpur district figures via ETV Bharat (January 2026); Airports Authority of India traffic data (FY2023-24 to FY2025-26) and PTI on the new terminal (July 2026); CCI Case 14 of 2019 and CCI order of 19 October 2022; OnlineHotelier OTA guide (2026); Cloudbeds State of Independent Hotels Report (2026); SiteMinder Hotel Booking Trends (2026); Rajasthan Homestay (Paying Guest House) Scheme 2026.
The guest who wants a palace suite is not the guest who wants a budget homestay near the clock tower. Each needs a different page, a different photo and a different search phrase.
Who booksForeign leisure travellers (the US and UK send the most to Rajasthan), destination weddings, luxury domestic
Guests search: “heritage hotel in Jodhpur with fort view”
Is your heritage hotel page findable?
Who booksIndependent foreign travellers, couples, photographers, long-weekend domestic guests
Guests search: “haveli stay near Mehrangarh Fort”
Is your haveli page findable?
Who booksBudget foreign travellers, families, longer stays
Guests search: “homestay in Jodhpur old city”
Is your homestay page findable?
Who booksDestination weddings, NRI families, corporate offsites
Guests search: “wedding venue in Jodhpur with rooms for 150 guests”
Is your wedding page findable?
Who booksWeekenders from Delhi, Mumbai and Bengaluru; business travellers
Guests search: “boutique hotel in Jodhpur with rooftop restaurant”
Is your weekend getaway page findable?Source: Heritage Hotels of India directory (viewed 2026); Rajasthan Tourism Department figures via ETV Bharat (January 2026) and the Union Tourism Minister’s Rajya Sabha reply (August 2026); Rajasthan Homestay (Paying Guest House) Scheme 2026; Airports Authority of India traffic data and PTI (July 2026). No official source publishes Jodhpur occupancy, room supply or homestay counts, so we don’t invent them. Photos: Arian Zwegers (CC BY 2.0), Pablo Nicolás Taibi Cicaré (CC BY 2.0), travel N living (CC BY 2.0), Nagarjun (CC BY 2.0) and bjoern (CC BY 2.0) via Flickr and Wikimedia Commons; Megh Banthia (CC BY-SA 4.0) and A Vahanvati (CC BY-SA 2.0) via Wikimedia Commons.
Many Jodhpur properties have a site that loads slowly, sits below MakeMyTrip and mirror pages for its own name, and sends enquiries to a phone nobody checks after 9 pm. Send us your address and we’ll check what a guest in Delhi or Lyon actually sees.
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Built from your website, CRM, ads and sales sheets — one live dashboard, reviewed with you every month.
Guests want photos of the actual room, the real price for their dates, and a fast reply. Switch between the screens to see the homepage, a room page and the booking request on desktop and phone.
Wake up to the fort, eat dal baati on the terrace, walk to the clock tower in five minutes. Book direct for the best rate and a free airport pick-up.
Heritage roomsFrom ₹4,200Rooftop diningFort viewsWeddingsUp to 120 guests
Desert nightsCamp add-onHeritage roomsRooftop diningWeddingsDesert nights| Size | 320 sq ft |
|---|---|
| Bed | King, or twin on request |
| View | Mehrangarh Fort from the jharokha |
| Bathroom | Private, rain shower |
| Includes | Breakfast, Wi-Fi, airport pick-up |
| Direct rate | From ₹5,400 a night |
Book direct: free airport pick-up and 10% off the rooftop dinner
Jharokha Suite14–16 Dec · 2 nights · 2 adultsEditBooking requests from your site, Google, WhatsApp, Instagram and phone calls land in one list your front desk can open on a phone. Built for small Jodhpur properties, not hotel chains.
Website, Google, WhatsApp, Instagram and missed-call enquiries in one list with reference numbers.
Request → quote → advance paid → arriving → checked out, with who is handling each guest.
See what share of nights came direct against each OTA, and what the commission cost you that month.
Room, dates, extras and the direct rate in a WhatsApp-ready quote, with a UPI or card link for the advance.
A nudge when a quoted guest goes quiet for 24 hours, before they book elsewhere.
Directions, check-in time and pick-up confirmation in English, Hindi or French.
A polite Google review link sent the day after check-out, with replies tracked in one place.
Room blocks, rooming lists, advance schedule and event timings for each wedding party.
Returning guests, preferences and past stays, so a repeat guest is greeted by name.
Today’s arrivals, pick-ups and special requests for the front desk at 8 am.
ID details and Form C for foreign guests, kept together with each booking.
Flags repeat no-show numbers and asks for an advance on peak dates.
From ₹2,499 / month. Included free for the first 3 months with a new hotel website.
Show me the CRMA plain-language report on why guests book you through an OTA instead of directly.
Search optimisation built around how guests actually search for stays in Jodhpur.
Keep your Google profile complete, current and answering guests’ questions.
Shape your pages so Google’s AI Overviews and voice assistants can quote you directly.
Help ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Perplexity name your property when travellers ask for recommendations.
The pieces that move guests from OTAs to your own site, set up and tested.
You won’t leave OTAs completely. They bring guests who would never find you otherwise. What you can do is make sure people who already know your name book direct: your own site ranks first for your name, Google shows a free booking link to it, the room pages show real prices, and someone replies on WhatsApp within the hour. A small direct-booking perk, like airport pick-up, does the rest.
It depends on the contract. In the case that led the Competition Commission of India to fine MakeMyTrip-Goibibo in 2022, the hoteliers’ federation said standalone hotels paid 22–40%, against about 15% at Booking.com. Current guides put MakeMyTrip at around 18–22% before extra promotion fees. Check your own invoices, because that is the number that matters.
It is search optimisation built around how travellers look for stays: by area (“near the clock tower”), by type (“haveli”, “homestay”), by occasion (“wedding venue with rooms”) and by your own name. Expect your own name to rank first within weeks once mirror sites and profiles are cleaned up. Wider phrases usually take 3–6 months.
Under Rajasthan’s Homestay (Paying Guest House) Scheme 2026, homes with up to 8 rooms and 24 beds register with the tourism department. Temporary registration is issued within 7 working days. Registering is your responsibility; we add the registration number and grade to your site once you have it.
AEO (answer engine optimisation) makes your pages easy for Google’s AI Overviews and voice assistants to quote. GEO (generative engine optimisation) helps ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity mention your property when someone asks for a quiet haveli or a rooftop with a fort view. Both depend on clear facts and consistent details across your site, Google profile and review sites.
Each wedding gets its own record: the room block, the rooming list as it changes, advance payments due and event timings. The family’s coordinator can be sent updates on WhatsApp, and your team sees which rooms are still unassigned.
Not always. Start with the free audit. Often, fixing speed, the Google profile, room pages and the booking form is enough. If the site can’t sensibly be fixed, we’ll say so and quote a rebuild.