Marketing for hotels, restaurants and destinations.
A Perfect Thirst is a boutique agency with a presence in Mendocino, Pasadena and Las Vegas, and working with independent tourism businesses around the world. We do websites, search, advertising, social, photography and video, and strategy, and we take on as much or as little of it as a property needs, as part of a larger team, or just taking the weight off.
A small agency, where you deal with the people doing the work.
We’ve been building websites and marketing programs for hotels and restaurants since 2000 and still write, design, shoot and report for every account ourselves. There are four of us. There is no account manager between you and the person doing the work, and no junior team the account gets handed to after the pitch.
Most of our clients have been with us for more than ten years. We take on a few new ones a year, and we try to work with places we would want to stay at ourselves.
“When a traveler asks Google or ChatGPT where to stay, the answer is built from whatever those systems can read about you. Most independent hotels give them very little to work with, and the booking goes to whoever gave them more. We want more boutique properties and attractions to be elevated, and we aim to change that through optimizing these presences so they stand out above the big brands.”
What we do
Everything a hotel or restaurant needs to be found, chosen and booked, from one team that talks to each other. Most clients start with one of these and add the rest over time.
Websites, search and GEO
Web design and development on WordPress, built around your booking engine and the way guests actually search. Search engine optimization, and the newer work of making sure Google’s AI answers and ChatGPT describe the property correctly, which is mostly structured data, clear policies, and content written to be read by both people and machines. Accessibility is handled from the start rather than patched in after a demand letter.
Advertising and social
Google and Meta advertising reported in bookings rather than clicks. Social media run on real photographs of the property instead of stock. Influencer management, from deciding who is worth hosting to making sure the content they produce is usable afterward. Traditional advertising, print and placement, where it still pays for itself.
Content, photography and strategy
Photography and video shot at the property, for the website and for a year of posts and ads. Content development: the copy, the specials and packages, the emails, the pages that answer the questions guests ask before they book. Strategic and revenue consulting for owners who want a second opinion on rates, channel mix, and where the marketing budget should go.
It starts with a scorecard.
Send us the website. We look at how it loads on a phone, what Google and the AI assistants say when asked about lodging in your town, whether the pages carry the structured data those systems read, where the booking path hands guests to the online travel agencies, and whether the site has the accessibility problems that draw demand letters. You get one page back, by email, usually within the week. There is no charge and no call unless you want one.
From there, some properties need a new site, some need the marketing run every week, and some need a shoot and a short list of fixes. We will tell you which, and we are candid when the answer is that you do not need us yet.
Who we work with
Independent hotels and inns, most of them between eight and sixty rooms. Restaurants and bars, with rooms attached or a reputation to protect. Tourism boards and destination organizations. Heritage attractions, tour operators, wineries and distilleries with tasting rooms.
We’ve worked with more than 100 clients over the years, including a county tourism board (a 14 year contract), a family-run inn we have handled every piece of marketing for since 2013, a heritage railroad with three brands, and a historic downtown inn whose rebuild this year took its mobile speed score from 67 to 95.
Let’s talk about your property.
Send the website address and a line about what prompted this, and we will send back a one-page scorecard within the week. No charge, no call unless you want one.
Or write to brendan@aperfectthirst.com
A Perfect Thirst
Mendocino · Pasadena · Las Vegas
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