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AI agents for hospitality that answer first — in the guest's language.

AI agents for hospitality answer guests at any hour in their language, respond to quote requests in minutes, handle booking changes and draft review replies — wired into the booking engine and channels you already run.

In a business where whoever replies first wins the booking, response speed is the product.

Where it usually breaks

  • Long phone hold times for reservations
  • Order errors at peak rush
  • Guest reviews missed until it’s too late
01 / What they are · use cases

What are AI agents for hospitality?

AI agents for hospitality are software agents that handle the repetitive guest communication a hotel, restaurant group or tour operator runs on: answering availability, pricing and check-in questions in the guest's language 24/7, responding to group and event quote requests while the competitor is still asleep, managing booking changes end to end, and drafting on-brand review replies — escalating to your team whenever a request leaves the script, with the conversation attached.

Keep reading

It's the pattern behind our tourism agent, built custom around your booking engine, channel manager and tone — the same production engineering as the rest of our AI agent work.

Top use cases for AI agents in hotels and restaurants

Six workflows where an agent pays back first for a hotel, a restaurant group or a tour operator. Each answers from your live availability and policies, and hands the special requests to your team.

  • Multilingual guest answers, 24/7

    Availability, prices, check-in, directions, policies — answered instantly in the guest's language, from your information only, on website, WhatsApp and email.

  • Quote & group-request response

    Reads the request, checks availability and replies with a proposal in minutes — in a market where the enquiry went to three competitors at once, speed is the conversion rate.

  • Booking changes & confirmations

    Confirmations, date changes, upgrades and cancellations handled end to end against your booking engine — instead of an inbox someone clears at night.

  • Pre-stay & upsell

    Useful pre-arrival messages (check-in, parking, what to bring) with relevant offers at the right moment — late check-out, activities, dinner. Designed as service, not spam.

  • Review replies & reputation signals

    Drafts replies in the guest's language and your tone, ready to review and post — and flags recurring themes (the noisy room, the breakfast) that deserve a real fix.

  • Back-office between bookings

    OTA commission reconciliation, invoicing, occupancy reporting — the invisible work that eats mornings, run automatically with exceptions surfaced.

02 / Sector agents

Agents already designed for this sector. Each one is adapted to your stack before it goes live.

03 / Build vs buy

Booking-widget chatbot, custom agent, or your front desk after hours?

Widget chatbots answer from a script and stop at the first real question. A custom agent works from your live availability and policies, in the guest's language — and it's awake at 2am on a Saturday, when the booking actually lands.

  • What we build

    Custom AI agent

    Your data, your tone

    Answers from live availability
    Yes
    Guest's language, naturally
    Yes
    Responds to quotes in minutes
    Yes
    Handles booking changes end to end
    Yes
    Covers nights, weekends, peak season
    Yes
    Escalates gracefully with context
    Yes
  • Widget chatbot

    Scripted

    Answers from live availability
    No
    Guest's language, naturally
    Limited
    Responds to quotes in minutes
    No
    Handles booking changes end to end
    No
    Covers nights, weekends, peak season
    Yes
    Escalates gracefully with context
    Dead end
  • Front desk only

    Manual today

    Answers from live availability
    Yes
    Guest's language, naturally
    Depends on shift
    Responds to quotes in minutes
    Business hours
    Handles booking changes end to end
    Yes
    Covers nights, weekends, peak season
    No
    Escalates gracefully with context
    —
04 / In depth

AI agents for restaurants: reservations, calls and group bookings

For a restaurant or a food-service group, the volume is in the phone and the messages: table bookings and changes, 'do you have gluten-free options', group and event enquiries, takeaway and delivery questions. An AI agent answers them on WhatsApp, the website and email — and on the phone, with a voice agent — books against your reservation system, and passes allergies, complaints and large events to a person.

  • Reservations & changes

    Books, moves and cancels tables against your reservation system, sends reminders and offers no-show tables to the waitlist — the reservation assistant pattern.

  • Phone and voice orders

    A voice agent picks up the calls the floor can't answer during service, takes takeaway orders and books tables — the voice order assistant pattern.

  • Group & event enquiries

    Reads the request, checks the date and sends the menu and a quote in minutes, while the client is still choosing between you and two other venues.

AI customer service for hotels: guest messaging, PMS and direct bookings

In a hotel, the agent works from your PMS and booking engine. It answers availability and rate questions, handles date changes, late check-ins and special requests on your own channels, and sends the direct-booking link when a guest asks before booking. Messages and changes land in the PMS, so the front desk sees one history per guest instead of three inboxes.

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Hotel call-centre volume follows the same logic: a voice agent covers the routine calls — availability, directions, check-in times — at any hour, and transfers the rest to reception with the call summarised.

05 / Pricing

What does an AI agent for a hotel or restaurant cost?

A first agent on one workflow — guest questions and booking changes, or table reservations — starts at €1,500, fixed price, live in about two weeks (~12 business days). Multi-step agents wired into your PMS, booking engine or reservation system start at €2,500 per agent. After launch you pay the model tokens, capped per run, with no per-seat licence — peak season doesn't change the price. Either option can also be paid as a fixed monthly fee instead of the one-off setup, with hosting, maintenance and tuning included — see packages and pricing.

Starter
€1,500
setup per agent · one workflow
  • ✓One agent, one workflow
  • ✓Eval harness included
  • ✓2-week delivery
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Medium
Most popular
€2,500
setup per agent · multi-step
  • ✓Multi-step workflows
  • ✓Tool-use & integrations
  • ✓Cost ceiling per run
  • ✓Audit log on every field
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Enterprise
Custom
on-prem · compliance
  • ✓On-prem or private cloud
  • ✓HIPAA / GDPR posture
  • ✓SLA & support
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06 / Process
  1. 0130 min
    Assessment

    30 minutes with a principal engineer. We map your workflow and find the highest-impact agent.

  2. 02~12 business days
    Pilot

    One agent in production in ~12 business days. Fixed price.

  3. 03With every agent
    Evals
    Automated quality tests

    Every agent ships with an eval harness (a suite of tests run against real cases) and a cost ceiling per run.

  4. 04Ongoing
    Roll-out

    Scaled across the operation, documented, handed over. No lock-in: the code and the accounts are yours.

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07 / Frequently asked questions
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