Websites for hotels, B&Bs and guest houses in Ticino.

What an accommodation website actually needs

A guest compares your page with a list showing ten properties side by side. The advantage of your own site is room: you can say in full what the listing compresses.

1. Rooms described one by one

   Three rooms sharing one paragraph help nobody choose. A guest needs the square metres, what the window looks onto, how many people genuinely fit, and the concrete difference from the room next door.

2. Rates written with their conditions

   A rate without a season, a minimum stay and what it includes is not information: it is a promise somebody will check at the wrong moment, usually at check-out. Every published price carries its condition with it.

3. A link to your booking engine, not a new engine

   The site takes the guest to the booking system you already own. Lume 02 and Lume 03 include one simple technical integration, and the account, the data and the provider fees stay in the property's name. PMS migration and complex rate flows are not included in the three packages. We do not promise direct booking volumes or commission savings.

4. The second language chosen from data, not from instinct

   Which language your guests actually speak is in the last two years of bookings, not in our impression of it. Lume 03 includes complete copy and a second Latin-alphabet language. Further languages are not included in the three packages.

5. The place, and November as it really is

   How to arrive from Locarno, how far the lake is on foot, what stays open in low season, where a van can park. A guest books direct when your site told them something the listing did not.

Which package, and why

The package follows the functions you need, not the sector. For a property the concrete question is how many rooms need describing separately and how many languages are genuinely required.

• Lume 01CHF 890

  Up to 3 pages, essential copy in one language and a link to your existing booking platform. Enough for a B&B with two rooms and a single-language audience.

• Lume 02CHF 1'290

  Up to 6 pages and one simple technical integration. A page per group of rooms, one for the place and one for the conditions.

• Lume 03CHF 2'090

  Up to 8 pages, a second Latin-alphabet language and 15–25 essential iPhone photographs, lightly corrected for the website · included only in the Mendrisiotto. This is the common case for a property with several rooms and guests in two languages.

All prices are VAT included. Indicative timings are 2 weeks for Lume 01, 3 weeks for Lume 02, 4 weeks for Lume 03. Timings start from the confirmed start: valid acceptance, reconciled first payment, essential materials and required access. The service includes 15–25 essential photographs shot on iPhone and lightly corrected for the website; it is not a professional photography assignment. In the Mendrisiotto it is available as a CHF 290 extra for Lume 01 and Lume 02 and included in Lume 03. Outside the Mendrisiotto it is not included or offered as an extra.

Casa Vela: a bilingual boutique hotel

Casa Vela is a Lume Studio demonstration concept built on Lume 03: three rooms with a page each, a nightly rate, a booking panel that calculates the total, and the whole site in a second language. Casa Vela is not a real property: rooms, rates, availability and bookings are simulated.