The ubiquity of the large operators such as booking.com causes very pronounced specificities in the hotel industry. This can be a problem, but also an opportunity.

Every hotel website has a natural traffic produced by direct searches based on the hotel name. If you take a look at Google Analytics you will see that the number #1 keyword for your website is the name of the hotel. More important, the name of the hotel produces the 99% of the reservations at your website.

This is consecuence of users seeing your hotel in a reservations portal, such as booking.com, and then looking for your hotel website trying to get more information.

CloudHotelier Glassy, the best choice for beach resorts

Are you looking for a theme specially designed for beach resorts? Introducing Glassy Paradise

Glassy is a gnarly hotel theme designed for photo-based projects. It is ideal for modern design hotels or beach resorts with light environment like gardens and pools.

CloudHotelier Boutique, for hotels with a story to tell

Why distract your potential customers with multiple fireworks, when you can just show them your product, your hotel?

Boutique is an unique theme specially designed to build simple but stylish websites for very special hotels. It's clean design will help to emphasize your project images and copy work

Next week we will release CloudHotelier Panel Lite, a new extension for small properties or low-budget projects.

CloudHotelier Panel Lite will install as a normal Joomla extension. You will be able to manage the hotels directly into your Joomla Administrator. Panel Lite doesn’t have the same professional features of Cloud Admin Panel, but definitively is enough functional to be useful for small properties or amateur projects.

To avoid your website having problems with email delivery, you only need to change your Joomla configuration to use and external SMTP service

UPDATE: since Mandrill service is no longer available for a reasonable price, we now recommend to use Mailgun instead. Here's an updated post on how to use Mailgun with Joomla.

Having problems delivering email from your site? Bookings not arriving to your customers or hotels? If your email is getting bounced or it is delivered in the spam folder, your server IP may have been added to a spam black list.

Minimal and Classic are built on top of CloudHotelier JStrap II template engine, taking advantage of new Joomla v3.3 CMS core

Since the launch of Apple's iOS7, flat and minimalistic design is trending topic worldwide. Following this trend, Minimal is the stylish version of his brother theme Classic

CloudHotelier Minimal Theme follows the steps of his brother, Classic, but with a modern style and elegance. Minimal and Classic are built on top of CloudHotelier JStrap II template engine, taking advantage of new Joomla v3.3 CMS core for the back-end and Bootstrap v2.3 front-end framework -the same version as Joomla core- for maximum compatibility and long-term stability.

Last week the Joomla Project announced the release of a new stable version of the CMS, Joomla 3.3.0. It means that the CMS is mature enough in the 3.x series to start working with it.

Last week the Joomla Project announced the release of a new stable version of the CMS, Joomla 3.3.0. For us, this is a special version because it means that the CMS is mature enough in the 3.x series to start working with it.

Our goal was to launch a new version of each extension of our "suite" to adapt to this new Joomla version, which will focus our development efforts in the future.

This is a maintenance release with a few bug fixes and minor changes

CloudHotelier 2.7.5 has been released. This is a maintenance release with a few bug fixes and minor changes

• Booking Email: re-added guest address. Some users require the guest email address in the confirmation email.
• Mercadopago: solved issues with SSL version that appear to happen in some servers
• Installer: updated compatibility version
• Book form: incorrect payment amount when booking a pack, not a room.

No template updates are required with this version.

CloudHotelier 2.7.4 has been released with new features: White Label, New Languages, etc.

CloudHotelier 2.7.4 has been released with the following features:

• White Label panel and data servers available for special subscriptions
• Languages: Italian and German now supported in core (thanks Rafael)
• Card form: re-added CVC number support
• Hide rates in availability calendar (optional)

With the release of this new version, we have also updated Minimal, Classic & Pure templates and Theme Packs. You can download them from the downloads section in your Cloud Admin Panel. Please use caution when upgrading your template, always use a backup.

More info about White Label can be found here: CloudHotelier White Label

Our system has so many complexities that the channel managers do not support.

We have had several contacts with different channel managers, and we have arrived to the conclusion that our system has so many complexities that the channel managers do not support.

Since the launch of Apple's iOS7, flat and minimal design is trending topic worldwide. Following this trend, Minimal is the stylish version of his brother theme Classic

CloudHotelier Minimal Template follows the steps of his brother, Classic Theme, but with style and elegance. Minimal, is also designed for CloudHotelier 2.7, built using JStrap layouts, and using JKit multi-language Content Construction Kit to build the whole site. This is Minimal, just another cool demonstration of our new technology, that we hope it will fit perfectly to your next project!

CloudHotelier 2.7.3 has been released. This is a maintenance release.

CloudHotelier 2.7.3 has been released with the following featues:

• Full pack information in reservation voucher (info and text)
• Availability calendar options: basic or extended availabilty information

Welcome to CloudHotelier Classic, welcome to the next generation. Welcome to the most powerful hotel website development tool we have delivered yet.

Welcome to CloudHotelier Classic, welcome to the next generation. Welcome to the most powerful hotel website development tool we have delivered yet.

With CloudHotelier Classic template we have completely revamped everything from the ground up. Classic is the first template specially designed for CloudHotelier 2.7, the first built using JStrap layouts, and first time we are using JKit to build the whole site. Exciting times are coming for our costumers, as we provide the definitive hotel-website platform.

The Joomla! project announced in April the release of version 3.1, as the "the second minor release" of the Joomla! 3.x series. Many of you are asking us if CloudHotelier is compatible with Joomla! 3.x series, and the answer is no, by the moment.

Version 2.7.0 is now available for download. This is our last major release for Joomla! 2.5 series, we have been working hard to integrate all new advanced CloudHotelier Admin Panel features, like extras, packs and promotions, and enhanced room information, like long text and image gallery. This new version includes new views: Offers and Packs, My Booking, and a new module, Offers.