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Hotel Chatbot

A hotel chatbot answers guest questions in a chat window — on your website, on Instagram and in Messenger. It understands free-text questions, replies in 30 languages, quotes live availability from your PMS and hands over to your team when a human is needed.

Results from live operation with our hotel clients

200,000+
guest calls answered
5,000+
front-desk phone hours saved
€17.35M
in phone bookings generated

What the chatbot actually does

Most hotel chatbots are decision trees with a friendly avatar. This one answers questions.

Answers, not button trees

Guests ask in their own words — no menus to click through. The chatbot understands the question, answers it and keeps the context when the guest follows up.

Live rates and availability

Connected to your PMS, the chatbot quotes real availability and rates in the conversation and sends a direct booking link — instead of pointing the guest at a form.

30 languages, one knowledge base

Automatic language detection on every channel. You maintain your house information once; the chatbot answers in the language the guest writes in.

Clean handover to your team

Anything the chatbot should not decide goes to a human — with the full transcript, so nobody has to ask the guest to repeat themselves.

Working while the desk is closed

Most website chats start outside office hours. The chatbot answers at 23:00 and on Sundays, when the alternative is a contact form nobody reads until Monday.

GDPR-compliant by default

EU hosting, encrypted transmission, configurable retention, data processing agreement included. Your guest data stays yours.

One knowledge base, every chat channel

Guests choose the channel, not you. The answers stay identical because they come from the same source.

ChannelWhat it handlesWhy it matters
Website chatAnswers questions during the booking decision, right on the page where the guest is hesitatingHighest intent — the guest is already looking at your rooms
Instagram DMsReplies to direct messages and story reactions with the same knowledge baseWhere younger guests ask first, often outside office hours
Facebook MessengerHandles enquiries from your Facebook page without a separate inbox to watchStill the default channel for a large share of leisure guests
WhatsAppFull booking conversations including live rates and booking linksCovered on its own page — the channel with the highest response rates

Looking specifically for WhatsApp? WhatsApp AI for hotels covers that channel in detail.

AI chatbot vs. scripted bot vs. contact form

The three options a hotel realistically has for handling website enquiries.

CriterionAI chatbotScripted botContact form
Understands free-text questions
Answers immediately, 24/7
Live availability and rates
30 languages, auto-detected2–3 fixed
Same answers across channels
Escalates with full contextDelayed
Guest gets a decision in the chat

Frequently asked questions about hotel chatbots

What is a hotel chatbot?+
A hotel chatbot is an AI assistant that answers guest questions in a chat window — on your website, on Instagram or in Facebook Messenger. Unlike a scripted bot with fixed buttons, it understands free-text questions, replies in the guest's own language and can work with live availability and rates from your PMS. Questions it cannot answer are handed to your team with the full conversation attached.
Which channels does the chatbot cover?+
Your hotel website, Instagram direct messages and Facebook Messenger — all from one knowledge base. WhatsApp is covered by the same platform on its own page. Guests get the same answers wherever they write, and you maintain the content once instead of per channel.
Can the chatbot show live prices and availability?+
Yes, when connected to your property management system. The chatbot reads live availability and rates, quotes them in the conversation and sends a direct booking link. Without a PMS connection it still answers everything from your knowledge base — opening hours, facilities, directions, policies.
How many languages does it handle?+
30 languages with automatic detection. The guest writes in their own language and gets an answer in the same language — you do not maintain separate content per language.
What happens when the chatbot does not know the answer?+
It says so plainly and offers a handover instead of inventing an answer. Depending on your setup it collects a callback request, sends a transcript to the right department by email, or passes the live chat to a team member.
Is a hotel chatbot GDPR-compliant?+
With Alveni AI, yes. Conversations are processed on EU servers, transmitted encrypted, and you decide what is stored and for how long. A data processing agreement is included as standard.
How long does setup take?+
Typically 7 to 10 days. We build the knowledge base from your existing material — website, FAQ documents, house information — then test the conversations with you before going live. No development work on your side.

See it answer your guests' questions

In a free demo we run your real guest questions through the chatbot — on your own house information, in the languages your guests actually write in.