TRAVEL BLOGGING

A 2021 Guide How to Successfully Pitch Hotels & Database of Hotels That Work With Bloggers

on April 21, 2021April 22, 2021

DO YOU WANT TO LAND FREE HOTEL STAYS & HOTEL PARTNERSHIPS THROUGH YOUR TRAVEL BLOG BUT DON’T KNOW HOW TO PITCH THEM?

HAVE YOU BEEN PUTTING A LOT OF WORK INTO CREATING PITCHES AND APPROACHED HOTELS WITHOUT ANY SUCCESS?

DO YOU FEEL THAT YOU’VE WASTED A LOT OF TIME GOING THROUGH COUNTLESS ARTICLES OR COURSES ABOUT HOW TO GET FREE HOTEL STAYS, BUT THEY NEVER DELIVERED ENOUGH VALUE?

ARE YOU READY TO IMPROVE YOUR PITCHING RESULTS AND LAND COMPLIMENTARY HOTEL STAYS?

WOULD YOU LIKE TO GET A DATABASE OF OVER 300 HOTELS THAT WORK WITH BLOGGERS WORLDWIDE?

IF YOUR ANSWER TO AT LEAST ONE OF THESE QUESTIONS IS YES, THIS EBOOK IS RIGHT FOR YOU!

No more “bullshit” and useless wasting your time! Over the year and a half, we’ve researched what works and what doesn’t. Based on that we developed our own strategy that effectively works in hotel collaborations.

You can hope for luck that one hotel might say yes and give you a complimentary hotel room or hotel media rates after 100 sent out pitches. Or you can use our strategy, which lands us 6 collaboration out of every 10 email pitches we send.

In this pocket guide “How to Successfully Pitch Hotels for Collaborations” you will learn all the methods that we’re using for effective hotel pitching. That includes exact steps explained in detail, that need to be taken to get the results that you want.

AS A BONUS WE’RE GIVING AWAY OUR EXCLUSIVE DATABASE WITH OVER 300 HOTELS THAT WORK WITH BLOGGERS AND INFLUENCERS WORLDWIDE, THAT WE BUILT FOR ALMOST 3 YEARS!

HERE’S WHAT YOU ARE GETTING, WHEN YOU’LL PURCHASE THIS BOOK:

1 You’ll get a PDF version of the Travel Blogger’s Pocket Guide How to Successfully Pitch Hotels for Collaborations (everything that will work in 2021!!!) with 5 Modules explaining to you how to land hotel collabs, without having to send out hundreds of pitches.

2 Each of the modules includes the exact strategies and methods we currently use in working with hotels. It outlines the most important conclusions and exact steps to take to land new collaborations.

3 The book fully explains the meaning and purpose of a blogger – hotel collaboration, to create that win-win type of collaboration, when blogger and hotel both benefits from it.

4 You’ll learn how to find the right hotels to pitch.

5 You’ll discover different methods of how to find hotel marketing contacts.

6 The book contains the exact email templates that we use in different situations.

7 We’ve included tips and guidelines that will help you to decide on content what to offer the hotel in return for a complimentary hotel stay.

8 You’ll also discover the biggest mistakes that other bloggers make in pitching the hotels and also while working with them. Find out if you’re making any of these and learn how to avoid them.

9 And the cherry on top – we’re giving you our exclusive 2020 database of over 300 hotels worldwide that work with bloggers and influencers. Did you know, that pitching a hotel that is known to be working with bloggers, gives you 80% more chance of landing that partnership? Use the knowledge from this book to pitch them. 🙂

10 A bonus PDF of “5 email pitch templates for different situations”. It includes templates for – starting a conversation with a hotel when pitching for a complimentary stay or for a paid partnership, pitching a hotel chain for a long-term collaboration, pitching a tourism board and an airline for a complimentary flight.

WHY ARE WE SHARING OUR STRATEGIES AND DATABASE WITH EVERYONE?

We started our travel blog not that long ago ourselves. The beginning was pretty difficult as we didn’t know what we are doing, being totally new to travel blogging. And it felt like nothing and no-one are helping. We knew we wanted to work with hotels and get those complimentary stays. So we’d send out around 100 emails to different hotels in one destination and all we got was 1 reply politely saying “No, thank you!”

We spent a lot of time reading countless articles on how to pitch hotels written by other bloggers. We spent a lot of money buying courses, eBooks, and email templates, just to discover that they don’t work. The problem was that most of these materials don’t really reveal any real strategies or steps, that lead to landing actual free hotel stays. It’s just a big amount of “information bullshit” and that made us mad.

So we decided, once we’ll crack the “mystery” of how to get hotels to work with us, we’ll share it with the new bloggers out there. Thinking back, we’d so have appreciated it if somebody had really done that when we started.

We were putting together a database with hotels that we know are working with bloggers, sending out pitches, and analyzing our mistakes. The database eventually gave us the right direction on how to think and we managed to come up with our own ideal formula, that we still use today.

Turns out that one of the main keys is to pitch the right hotels, not just a large number or any hotels. Therefore we’ve gone from “100 emails = 1 response only saying No” to “10 emails = 6 or more Yes”!

If at the beginning we were mostly pitching hotels for complimentary stays, then now this experience and created materials are our portfolio, that lands us more serious, paid projects. Working with hotels is a great way how to get sponsored to travel.

For example, we’ve been working with such worldwide hotel chains as Four Seasons, Fraser, and Le Meridien, where we have even become their official photo artists this year.

HERE’S WHAT OTHER BLOGGERS HAVE SAID!

Lottie Reeves from Female Travel Bloggers

” This eBook is filled with great tips to help you get started with pitching – I had no idea how to find hotels that work with bloggers so even that firsts step was holding me back until I read this! It is also filled with useful reminders of how to promote the pitch to the hotel in ways that show you want to work with them to create a mutually beneficial deal – rather than to just have a free trip. With so many bloggers pitching hotels, module 5 was really useful to know how to stand out from the crowd when using my newly crafted pitches. 🙂 “

Vicki Franz from Vicki Viaja

” The e-book How to pitch Hotels for Collaborations by Anete was super helpful. It’s full of great ideas that I probably would have never thought of on my own. After having some unsuccessful pitches, this book was exactly what I needed to read to understand what I did wrong in my pitches in the past. The templates provided in the book show you exactly how your pitch should look like and what you should include – and what not. Now I am confident to try again and I am sure I will have more success this time. I can absolutely recommend reading this book if you want to collaborate with hotels. “

Teréz Julianna Szabo from Letters From A Traveling Girl

” Overall I really like this book and it gives great advice. Having an idea from the hospitality industry, I can see how these suggestions can work. It has really helped me get an idea of how to get into this. “

Theresa Ladner from Adventures in Middle-Aged Travel

” ‘How to Successfully Pitch Hotels for Collaborations’ is a must-read for new and experienced travel bloggers who want to up their collaboration game. The authors have filled this handy e-book with common-sense tips and tricks that are explained in easy to read, straightforward language. Step-by-step examples and templates make it a snap. The icing on the cake is the list of included hotels all over the world that are known to work with travel bloggers. I would highly recommend this e-book. “

15 comments

Kara Paul
April 30, 2021

Does you book explain how to add a clause about what you will do if you don’t like the hotel? I.e. it turns out the hotel is unsatisfactory so you can’t recommend it to your followers?
Nadina
November 3, 2018

Excellent ebook!
Lot of good strategies in here especially email templates.
1. THE TRAVEL LEAF
  November 3, 2018
  
  I’m glad you found it useful and wish you a success in future hotel collabs! 😉
Rodrigo
October 2, 2018

I wanna have more information about the database please, is just a list of hotel? every single hotel or chains of hotels? there are any explanation or is just a simple list?

Because send an email from a 20k profile is not the same to send it from a 100k, is there any example or proven collaboration that you provide or is just a list?

Thanks,
1. THE TRAVEL LEAF
  October 5, 2018
  
  Hi Rodrigo,
  
  Thank you for your questions! The list contains specific hotels that have worked with bloggers or influencers! No chains! You will find location and hotel category (luxury, mid-range, budget) for each of them.
  
  Thinking just from the numbers perspective when working with hotels is not the best approach to succeed. We got our first paid hotel collaboration at the 4th month of blogging being nowhere near 20K. The book includes our strategy on how to find the right hotels to work with, how to pitch them (with email templates included), what to offer hotels within the collab and what not to do.
  
  Landing a collaboration with a hotel that knows the value of influencer marketing often is way easier. Our hotel database will help with that a lot. However, that’s with a precondition, that the right strategy is used to pitch them. And it’s exactly what you can learn in the book.
  
  Have a great day!
  Anete
Jenne
September 6, 2018

Is there information on Seattle Hotel contacts inside it?
1. THE TRAVEL LEAF
  September 13, 2018
  
  Hi Jenne,
  
  We are not sharing direct contacts for any of the hotels, as that information sometimes is treated as confidential by the hotels and we’ll always respect that. However, we do share a step by step guide in this eBook on how to find contacts of any hotel you’d like to approach. So if you get this book, it will help you find the contacts you’re looking for.
  
  Good luck,
  Anete
dani
August 31, 2018

i don’t know which one to do first, comment or purchase first. lol. i just started a lifestyle blog and I. NEED. THIS. NOW! =)
Tiffany
July 13, 2018

This book sounds great! I will share this to my friends. Thanks for sharing ♥️ ♥️ Hope you can check out our Instagram Auditor at Phlanx.com, where it helps you check your Instagram account for fake followers and likes!

Xoxo,
Tiffany
Jo M (Missoula, Montana)
July 3, 2018

Hey, I have the same question??? 🙂
1. THE TRAVEL LEAF
  July 3, 2018
  
  Hi Jo M,
  
  This book will work for anyone with a blog or Instagram, as it’s packed with steps and strategies, that are valid for everyone. Plus the hotels database is a great source to find new partnerships more easily for anybody. 🙂
  
  Hope you find it useful for your future hotel collabs! 😉
  
  Have a great day,
  Anete
Vicky
July 2, 2018

Hi girls! Just found you on Pinterest! You have such beautiful pins by the way!!! 🙂
I have a question about your book. I’m not a blogger and don’t have my blog. I am an Instagrammer and have already worked with some brands there. I want to work with hotels too as I travel a lot, so this book seems like a perfect source where to learn about that. I want to know will it work also for Instagrammers or only travel bloggers?
Thank you!
Vicky
1. THE TRAVEL LEAF
  July 3, 2018
  
  Hi Vicky,
  
  We’re happy that you’re interested in this book! It’s 100% valid for instagrammers as well as bloggers. You’ll find lots of info, from the very beginning of finding the right hotels to work with, to email content, ideas of what to offer hotels in return for your complimentary stay etc. It works for anyone with a blog or Instagram who travels!
  
  We hope you find this book and the hotel database very useful! 😉
  
  Have a great day,
  Anete
Emma
June 30, 2018

I need this book!!!!!
1. THE TRAVEL LEAF
  June 30, 2018
  
  Hi Emma!
  Hope you find it very useful and land some great hotel collabs soon! 😉