Resort case study

Coastal Retreat pushes rates to 18 OTAs in 22 minutes.

A 120-room Algarve resort consolidated three tools into one channel manager, cut weekly overbookings to zero, and captured an 11% RevPAR lift in their first full season on SwiftGuest.

Rooms
120
Location
Algarve, PT
Founded
2006
On SwiftGuest since
September 2024
Coastal Retreat
Albufeira Bay, Algarve

The Challenge

Coastal Retreat operates across two bedroom wings, four villas, and a spa — with distinct inventory pools and rate logic. After a decade on legacy tools, their channel mix had grown faster than their systems could handle.

  • Three separate tools for channel management, extranets, and the legacy PMS.
  • Two to three overbookings per week during summer peak, costing around €6,800/month in relocations.
  • Rate updates took a full afternoon across 18 OTA extranets and static bedbank contracts.
  • No visibility into per-channel profitability after commissions, payment fees, and relocations.

The Solution

A four-week migration with a two-week parallel run through the end of shoulder season 2024. Go-live on 15 September, ahead of the Algarve's October golf peak.

  • One channel manager, 18 channels

    SwiftGuest pushes availability and rates to Channex, which distributes to all booking platforms and bedbanks; OTA reservations flow back via Channex into SwiftGuest.

  • Rate-plan derivation

    Six master rate plans drive 42 channel-mapped derivatives — so one change updates every OTA.

  • Stop-sell guardrails

    Automatic stop-sell on the lowest-margin channels when occupancy crosses configurable thresholds.

  • Channel P&L reporting

    Every booking attributed to its channel, net of commission, relocation cost, and payment fee.

The Impact

One summer season later, the numbers speak for themselves — and the front office staff have stopped dreading their morning extranet logins.

  • Rate push 8x faster
  • Zero overbookings since go-live
  • RevPAR up 11% YoY
  • €6,800/month relocations eliminated

One calendar, eighteen channels.

Two-way XML sync across Booking.com, Expedia, Hotelbeds, Vrbo and fifteen more. Rate parity enforced, stop-sell thresholds configurable per channel.

Booking.com
Expedia
Airbnb
Hotelbeds
Agoda
Vrbo
Trip.com
Despegar
Hostelworld
GetARoom
HRS
HotelPlanner
Webbeds
MG Bedbank
Stuba
JacTravel
TravelStaytion
Direct web

Results, in numbers

Results measured across the 2025 calendar year against the 2024 baseline.

22 min
Full rate push across 18 OTAs

Down from 3 hours. Same staff, same channel mix, fresh rates every morning.

0
Overbookings in 9 months

Two-way sync with real-time reservation pull eliminated channel collisions.

+11%
RevPAR uplift year-over-year

Dynamic rate rules capturing shoulder demand that used to be under-priced.

“We stopped firefighting overbookings. The team can actually look after guests now. Rate push that used to take an afternoon takes twenty-two minutes — and I can see channel profitability for the first time in my career.”
RA
Ricardo Alves
Operations Director, Coastal Retreat

Before & after

Twelve-month comparison, verified against their Mews-era exports and SwiftGuest dashboard.

MetricBefore SwiftGuestAfter 12 months
Rate push time3 hrs22 min
Overbookings per month~90
Channels connected1218
Avg. ADR (peak weeks)€184€212
Weekly reconciliation time14 hrs2 hrs

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