Vol. 01 · Hospitality

The first AI-managed website service for independent hotels.

Built on Astro for speed. Run by AI for cost. Designed for hospitality, by hospitality.

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01 — The current options

Three ways hotels get a website today. None of them work.

Every independent property eventually faces the same decision — and every option asks them to compromise on something they shouldn't have to.

Option A

The digital agency

CHF 15,000–40,000 upfront. Three to six months. Then a maintenance retainer of CHF 500–2,000/month for changes you used to make in five minutes. Beautiful, often. Affordable, rarely.

Too expensive.

Option B

The website builder

Wix, Squarespace, GoDaddy. Cheap monthly, drag-and-drop, looks like every other small hotel website. Slow on mobile. Mediocre on Google. You never quite own it.

Too generic.

Option C

The WordPress site

Powers 43% of the web. Also 94% of hacked websites. Plugin conflicts, security patches, hosting bills, the developer who built it has moved on. You inherited a maintenance liability.

Too fragile.


02 — A fourth way

A website that maintains itself.

We build your site once, on Astro — the framework Google itself uses for the fastest sites on the web. Static HTML. No database. No plugins. No security patches. It loads in under a second on any device, from anywhere.

Then we hand the day-to-day to AI agents that read your inbox, your booking system, and your CMS — and make the small edits a website actually needs. New seasonal menu. Updated rates. A typo on the contact page. All handled, none invoiced.

An agency's craft.
A builder's price.
A system that updates itself.

You get the website an agency would build, the cost of a website builder, the security of static infrastructure, and a system that updates itself. One predictable monthly fee. Apply, or leave, anytime.

A quiet hospitality sunset at the close of the day.

A website that runs without you. So the morning belongs to your guests, not your inbox.

Astia · principle 01
03 — How it works

Three steps. Roughly three weeks.

01

Apply

Day 1–3

Tell us about your property — what you offer, what's broken on your current site, what direct bookings should look like. We respond within three business days and confirm fit.

02

Build

Week 1–3

Discovery, design system, content migration, booking-engine integration, performance tuning. You see progress at every stage. We launch when you approve, not before.

03

Run

Forever

Edits handled by AI agents within 24 hours. Hosting and security included. An annual design check-in to keep it modern. You focus on guests; the website handles itself.

The full process

04 — At a glance

Astia versus the alternatives.

The honest comparison. Numbers are industry averages — pulled from public benchmarks, our own work, and twenty years of hospitality web pricing.

Web agencyWix / SquarespaceAstia Web
Upfront cost CHF 15k – 40k CHF 0 CHF 0
Monthly cost CHF 500 – 2,000 CHF 30 – 50 CHF 150 – 550
Time to launch 3–6 months A weekend (looks it) 2–3 weeks
Loads in under one second Sometimes Rarely Always
You own the code & content Maybe No Yes
Updates handled by You pay per edit You, manually AI agent + you
Direct booking integration Custom build Limited add-ons Built for it
The technical case for Astro

05 — The work

The standard developed for Planhotel's Exploreans collection, now available to independent properties.

3 properties · built on Astia
Exploreans nature-led safari experience
Group brand · 2024
Exploreans
Maasai Mara · Watamu · Indian Ocean
Mara River Camp tented accommodation overlooking the great migration route
Tented camp · 2024
Mara River Camp
On the path of the great migration
Watamu beach club at Mayungu Bay on the Kenyan coast
Beach club & villas · 2025
Watamu
Mayungu Bay, Kenyan coast

Exploreans is the nature-led brand of Planhotel Hospitality Group, an independent Swiss-Italian hotel group headquartered in Lugano. Three properties, one platform, all built and maintained on the Astia stack.


06 — Pricing

One monthly fee. Zero invoices in between.

Pricing by property size and how involved you want to be. Switch tiers anytime.

Self-Serve

You edit. We host, secure, and refresh.

Up to 15 rooms CHF 150/mo
Up to 30 rooms CHF 200/mo
50+ rooms CHF 300/mo
Full pricing & what's included

Limited intake

We accept two new properties a month.

Tell us about yours. We respond within three business days, and we'll be honest about whether Astia is the right fit before either of us commits.

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