Direct bookings were the topic of this weeks’ workshop, so let’s put that energy to work. 🚀
Your Hospitable account already holds your best direct-booking marketing: glowing reviews, great photos, and guests who loved their stay. These prompts help your AI find it and turn it into content.
New to MCP? Start with Part 1 here.
Missed the workshop? Watch it on our Youtube channel
✨ Prompt 1: Give your listings a makeover
“Act as a vacation rental marketing expert. Review my Hospitable property descriptions, photos, and guest reviews. Identify opportunities to make my properties more appealing to guests booking direct. Suggest stronger descriptions, better photo ordering, and any missing information that would help guests feel confident booking directly.”
*Only some AI apps can view your photos through MCP. If yours can’t, upload them into the chat.
⭐ Prompt 2: Turn your best reviews into marketing
“Review my top guest reviews and find the strongest quotes about specific features of my property, such as the kitchen, hot tub, views, bedrooms, or location. Describe review graphics I could add to my direct booking photo gallery, and recommend where each should sit, for example a kitchen review between kitchen photos. Keep every quote word-for-word and show me your plan for approval.”
💡 Tip: Create the graphics in Canva or an AI image editor. Check that your use of guest reviews follows the relevant platform’s rules.
📱 Prompt 3: Create social media content
“Act as my vacation rental social media manager. Review my Hospitable property descriptions, photos, and best guest reviews. Create 5 Instagram and Facebook post ideas that show what makes my property special and encourage guests to book directly. For each post, recommend which photos to use, match a real guest review quote to the feature shown, write a caption with a call to action to my direct booking website, and suggest hashtags. Use only verified property details and make the designs easy to recreate in Canva.”
💡 Bonus: Ask your AI to turn these into a 30-day content calendar.
💌 Prompt 4: Find guests who want to come back
“Go through the guest messages on my reservations from the last 12 months. Find guests who said they’d love to return, mentioned a reason to come back (an annual event, a family trip, a season), or left a glowing review. In a table, list each guest’s name, property, stay dates and season, booking channel, what they said, and their email address where Hospitable has one.”
Then follow up with:
“Draft a short, personal email inviting [guest name] back for [reason or season], based on what they told us during their stay.”
💡Hospitable MCP can pull guest emails from Rental Agreements, Direct and VRBO bookings. If you use something like StayFi pull that data and have your AI match the names and dates with the information it pulls!
🔒 Remember: ask your AI for drafts and recommendations first, and approve anything before it’s sent or changed.
📌 Coming next: Part 3 covers comparing your pricing against competitors.
💬 Your turn!
What’s working for your direct bookings right now? Share your best tip or favourite prompt in the comments! 👇