A hotel website in India typically costs ₹25,000–₹60,000 for a basic site with enquiry forms, ₹60,000–₹1,50,000 for a direct-booking site with a booking engine and online payments, and ₹1 lakh to ₹3 lakh or more once it's connected to a channel manager or PMS, according to this 2026 Indian pricing guide. Homestays can get online for ₹8,000–₹30,000 with a template package. What moves the price most is how guests book (an enquiry form, a linked booking engine or a custom booking system), not how many pages you have.
I've built and repaired hotel and venue websites in the UK and India. Below are the market prices, the features that bring in direct bookings, and the questions I'd ask before paying anyone.
How much does a hotel website cost in India?
Prices run from about ₹8,000 for a homestay template to ₹8 lakh or more for a hotel group platform. In the pricing guides cited below, most independent hotel sites fall between ₹25,000 and ₹1,50,000. Where you land depends mostly on whether guests enquire or book online.
| Website type | Typical price range | Best for |
|---|---|---|
| Template or starter package | ₹8,000–₹50,000 | Homestays and guest houses with a few rooms |
| Basic hotel site with enquiry forms | ₹25,000–₹60,000 | Small hotels that take bookings by phone or WhatsApp |
| Custom design with SEO | ₹40,000–₹90,000 | Boutique hotels competing on brand |
| Direct-booking site with booking engine and payments | ₹60,000–₹1,50,000 | Hotels that want to rely less on OTAs |
| Channel manager or PMS integration | ₹1,00,000–₹3,00,000+ | Properties selling on several OTAs with live inventory |
| Multi-property or highly custom platform | ₹3,00,000–₹8,00,000+ | Hotel groups |
Where the numbers come from: homestay website design in India is quoted at ₹8,000 to ₹30,000, and hotel and resort packages run from ₹9,999 to ₹49,999+. One hotel-focused provider starts at ₹15,000 plus 18% GST for a five-page site. The other tiers come from the SEO Web Technology guide. A booking platform built from scratch is quoted at ₹2–5 lakh.
You'll also see listings as low as ₹999 a month. Those are usually subscriptions. Before you sign, ask who owns the domain and the site files if you stop paying. The answer is often not you.
If your property markets to UK guests or you're comparing quotes from abroad, my guide to hotel website cost in the UK shows what similar builds cost there.
What pushes the price of a hotel website up or down?
The booking method, the number of room types, custom design and integrations account for most of the cost. Content writing, extra languages and GST get added on top.
- How guests book. The big one. An enquiry form is cheap, a linked booking engine costs a little more, and a custom booking system is a different project altogether.
- Room types. Each room type needs its own section or page with photos, occupancy, amenities and a booking link. Twelve room types are more work than three.
- Custom design or template. Building pixel for pixel from a Figma design costs more than adapting a theme. In return the site looks like your property and not like a hundred others.
- Integrations. A payment gateway (usually Razorpay in India), WhatsApp, Google Maps, GA4 tracking and the booking engine widget.
- Foreign guests. Extra languages or currency display add work.
- Content. If the developer writes the room copy and edits your photos, you're paying for that time.
- GST. Plenty of Indian quotes leave it out, so check whether the 18% is included.
Should a hotel link a booking engine, build one or use an enquiry form?
Most independent hotels in India should link their site to a third-party booking engine such as eZee, AxisRooms or Djubo. An enquiry form is fine for a homestay with a few rooms. A custom booking system at ₹2–5 lakh only makes sense for groups with unusual pricing rules.
| Option | Setup cost | Ongoing cost | Live availability | Good fit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Enquiry form or WhatsApp | Lowest | None beyond hosting | No | Homestays with a few rooms |
| Third-party booking engine, linked from your site | Moderate | From about $30 a month for 1–10 rooms (AxisRooms, per this software roundup; confirm the current price with AxisRooms) | Yes | Most independent hotels |
| Custom booking system | ₹2–5 lakh | Developer maintenance | Yes | Groups with unusual pricing rules |
When I rebuilt the Crowne Plaza London Kingston website on WordPress and Elementor, every room linked straight into IHG's booking system. The website sold the room. The chain's booking engine dealt with rates, inventory and payment. That split works just as well for an Indian property on eZee, AxisRooms, Djubo or something similar.
Deep-link, don't dump guests on a home page
Ask your booking engine vendor for a widget or deep link that opens on the chosen room and dates. Every extra click between Book now and payment loses guests.
Is a direct-booking website worth it compared with OTA commission?
For most Indian hotels, yes. With MakeMyTrip taking 18–22% plus 18% GST on that commission, shifting just 10 bookings a month to your own site can pay back a ₹60,000 website within a year.
One Indian OTA commission calculator puts MakeMyTrip at 15–25% with most hotels paying 18–22%, and Booking.com at 15–18%. Then there's 18% GST on the commission, plus 0.1% TDS and 0.5% TCS. A homestay guide lists Airbnb at 17–19%, Agoda at 15–22% and OYO at 20–25%.
18–22%
MakeMyTrip commission most hotels pay
18%
GST charged on OTA commission
≈₹2,500/mo
AxisRooms booking engine from (1–10 rooms, about $30)
Here's the maths with those rates. Say a room night is ₹4,000 and commission is 20%. That's ₹800 to the OTA and ₹144 GST on top, so ₹944 per booking. At 30 OTA bookings a month you're handing over ₹28,320. If 10 of those guests booked direct, you'd avoid about ₹9,440 in commission. Direct bookings aren't free, though. Razorpay's standard fee is about 2% per transaction plus GST, so roughly ₹944 on ₹40,000 of bookings, and a booking engine subscription costs around ₹2,500 a month. Net of both, you'd keep about ₹6,000 a month, so a ₹60,000 website pays for itself in about 10 months. Ask your CA whether any of that GST can be claimed back as input credit.
I wouldn't drop the OTAs, though. MakeMyTrip, Booking.com and Agoda bring you guests who've never heard of you. Your website is for the ones who find you there and then search your hotel's name, and for people coming back. Give them a reason to book direct, like free breakfast or late checkout, and read your OTA contracts before you advertise a lower rate.
What should a hotel homepage show first?
Rooms. Room photos, a "from" price and a Book now button. Someone landing from Google wants to know what the rooms look like, roughly what they cost and how to book, and they won't scroll far to find out.
On the Warren House homepage I built for a Kingston hotel and wedding venue, I used Elementor Pro with a video hero, put the rooms first and added Google reviews. The property's story still matters. It just goes further down.
A hotel or homestay homepage that converts usually has:
- Room cards with real photos, occupancy, key amenities, a "from" price and a Book now button
- Reviews: your Google rating and a few recent reviews, near the top
- Location: a map, plus distance from the nearest airport, railway station or landmark
- Click-to-call and WhatsApp, because a lot of Indian guests still want to ask a question first
- Policies: check-in time, cancellation and ID requirements, so guests don't have to ask
- Hotel schema markup, so search engines understand your property. My free Schema Markup Generator writes the JSON-LD for you.
The full list is in what a hotel or restaurant website needs to take bookings.
How fast does a hotel website need to be?
The main image should appear within 2.5 seconds. That's Google's "good" threshold for Largest Contentful Paint (LCP). Hotel sites often miss it because they're full of big photos, and guests in hill stations and smaller towns are frequently on patchy mobile data.
The Magpie Retreat website in Uttarakhand needed a repair, not a rebuild. I fixed the UX problems, enhanced the images and rebuilt the Elementor header. A lot of Indian properties are in the same spot: the site works, but it looks dated or loads slowly. A focused repair costs far less than starting over.
What keeps a hotel website fast:
- Compress every photo and serve WebP. My free Under1MB image converter does this in the browser.
- If you want a video hero, keep it short, compress it and show a still image on mobile.
- Stick to one page builder and a small set of plugins, not twenty.
- Pay for decent hosting. The cheapest shared plans are often why a site feels slow.
Got a PageSpeed Insights report already? Paste it into my Page Speed Fix Planner and you'll get a fix list ranked by impact.
Which platform is best for a hotel website in India?
For most Indian hotels and homestays, I'd pick WordPress on Bricks, Elementor or Oxygen. Your team can change offers, room photos and seasonal packages without ringing a developer.
The major booking engines all give you a widget or link that drops into WordPress, and Razorpay covers deposits or packages that sit outside the engine. The Crowne Plaza London Kingston and Warren House sites I worked on both run on WordPress with Elementor.
A custom Next.js build makes sense for hotel groups with in-house developers and lots of properties. A single hotel rarely fits that. If your current site is past saving, my guide to website redesign cost in India covers that call.
How long does a hotel website take to build?
A simple five-page site can go live in about a week. One provider advertises live in 7 days for exactly that. Add a booking engine and you add the vendor's onboarding time. The usual hold-up, though, is content: room photos, descriptions and policies. Have those ready and the build goes quickly.
What should you ask a developer before hiring?
Six questions: who owns the domain, how bookings will work, whether you can edit rooms yourself, how the site stays fast, whether booking clicks are tracked and what happens after launch.
- 1
Who owns the domain and hosting?
Both should be in your name, with your own login. This matters most with monthly subscription offers.
- 2
How will bookings work?
Ask which booking engine they'll connect, whether Book now opens on the right room, and what happens on mobile.
- 3
Can I edit rooms and offers myself?
Ask for a short demo of the editor before launch, not a promise.
- 4
How will you keep it fast?
Listen for image compression, WebP, caching and limited plugins, not just a pretty design.
- 5
Will booking clicks be tracked?
GA4 should record clicks on Book now, WhatsApp and call buttons, so you can see what the site earns.
- 6
What happens after launch?
Agree on updates, backups and fixes up front, and compare against typical WordPress maintenance rates in India.
For typical retainer prices, see my guide to WordPress maintenance cost in India.
Ready to plan your hotel website?
If you run a hotel, resort or homestay and want a rooms-first website that sends guests straight to your booking engine, send me your current site or OTA listing. I'll tell you whether it needs a repair or a rebuild, and which booking setup suits your room count. You can also see how I build on my WordPress websites service page.
