Hospitality Contact Center & Central Reservations

For hotel, resort, and portfolio teams outsourcing central reservations and guest support. Our professional and friendly hospitality-trained agents handle booking inquiries, reservations, changes, and cancellations in approved CRS or PMS workflows, with full-time, after-hours, or reservations overflow coverage.

No long-term contract or implementation fees required to start a pilot program.

Trusted by hospitality brands including

  • Preferred Hotels & Resorts
  • Grand Isle Resort
  • The Edgewater Hotel
  • Magnuson Hotels
  • Triumph Hotels

Industry services

Reservations and outsourced guest support for your hotel operation.

Extend your property or portfolio team with booking inquiries, central reservations, and guest-service programs. Agents follow your approved rates, policies, systems, and routing, with full-time, overflow, or after-hours coverage.

Reservations Overflow & After-Hours Coverage

Add trained capacity for booking inquiries and new reservations when your hotel team is busy or off duty. Coverage can include evenings, weekends, holidays, or 24/7 service.

Central Reservations Office

Handle bookings, modifications, and cancellations across a portfolio while preserving property-specific rates and policies.

Outsourced Guest Support

Support your guests with approved pre-arrival and in-stay information, amenity questions, and guest requests, with routing to property staff when needed.

Revenue-Focused Upselling

Recommend approved room upgrades, packages, and add-ons that support ADR, RevPAR, and total booking value.

Loyalty & Membership Servicing

Enroll eligible callers and help members with approved rewards, redemption, account, and tier questions.

Client success story

Doubled monthly reservations across a 130+ location portfolio

The portfolio reported 2× monthly year-over-year reservations and a 4% occupancy increase.

2x

Reported monthly year-over-year reservations

4%

Reported occupancy increase

50%

Reported front-desk calls metric

Revenue impact

28%

benchmark unanswered-call rate during peak demand

Source: Invoca Hospitality Conversation Intelligence Benchmark

What are unanswered reservation calls costing your portfolio?

Build a transparent planning range using your own reservation-call volume, unanswered rate, booking intent, conversion, and average booking value.

Estimate Missed Booking Revenue

Action through technology

See what guests need, where they get stuck, and what to improve next.

Every Customer Direct program includes Happitu, our proprietary AI platform for conversation intelligence and Auto-QA. Configured around your reservation operation, it surfaces guest needs, booking friction, portfolio trends, and coaching opportunities. These insights go beyond what even the best-trained agents can report on their own.

Guest Needs and Booking Barriers

Classify call reasons, sentiment, and booking outcomes to show why guests contact you and where reservations break down.

Portfolio Trends

Surface recurring rate, policy, booking, and website friction across properties using evidence from guest conversations.

Agent Performance and Quality

Auto-QA evaluates every eligible call against your approved reservation and service standards. Customer Direct uses the results to identify gaps, coach agents, and track improvement.

The Customer Direct Difference

Reservation workflows

Customer Direct

Books, modifies, and cancels reservations during the call.

Message-Taking Answering Service

Captures details for follow-up by property staff.

Live rates and inventory

Customer Direct

Works directly in the CRS or PMS using live rates and availability.

Message-Taking Answering Service

Takes a message without completing the transaction.

Reservation sales

Customer Direct

Explains room options, handles objections, and recommends approved upgrades.

Message-Taking Answering Service

Follows an intake script and routes the request.

Portfolio consistency

Customer Direct

Applies property-specific policies within shared brand standards.

Message-Taking Answering Service

Depends on each property to resolve the request later.

Conversation intelligence

Customer Direct

Includes Happitu insight and Auto-QA configured around booking performance.

Message-Taking Answering Service

Reports primarily on calls and messages.

Engagement models

A service model built around your operation.

Choose focused coverage or a fully managed operation, then expand after workflows and performance meet agreed expectations.

Full Central Reservations Office

Outsource booking, modification, and cancellation calls across participating properties to one hospitality-trained team.

Overflow & Peak Demand

Add reservation capacity when call volume exceeds what property or portfolio teams can answer.

After-Hours Coverage

Extend reservation coverage across evenings, weekends, holidays, and overnight hours.

Flexible Program Launch

Start with selected properties, call types, or coverage periods, then expand after agreed targets are met.

See how Customer Direct designs workflows, systems, staffing, training, quality monitoring, and continuous improvement around your operation.

Explore Our Process

Trained to work with the systems you already use

With approved access and program-specific training, agents can use Access/Windsurf, Cloudbeds, and SynXis by Sabre to check availability, quote approved rates, and manage reservations. Confirm your system and workflow requirements during consultation.

Access/Windsurf

Cloudbeds

SynXis by Sabre

Built with security, privacy and reliability

Customer Direct uses program-specific access and data-handling controls for guest and payment information.

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HIPAA

PCI DSS

GDPR

More ways we support your operation.

Resort property at sunset

Reservations

Diverse support team collaborating on a customer issue

Multilingual Capabilities

Scope reservations and guest-support coverage for your hotels.

Discuss your properties, call volumes, booking and guest-support workflows, approved systems, and coverage needs. Pricing depends on volume, system complexity, and coverage model; scope a property-specific program or reservations pilot with our team.

Resort pool and guest accommodations

Frequently Asked Questions

Can Customer Direct handle central reservations for hotels and resorts?+

Customer Direct can operate as your Central Reservations Office (CRO), handling inbound booking calls, modifications, cancellations, and guest inquiries according to your brand and operating guidelines.

Can you support multiple properties or distinct brands under one contract?+

Customer Direct supports independent properties, boutique collections, and large multi-property management groups. Calls follow the appropriate property-specific workflows, rates, and policies.

Can agents work directly in Access/Windsurf, Cloudbeds, or SynXis by Sabre?+

Agents can work directly in your approved CRS, PMS, or CRM to check availability, complete bookings, and update guest records in real time.

Can Customer Direct supplement our existing reservations operation?+

Customer Direct can support your existing operation with overflow, after-hours, or dedicated coverage based on your call volume and operating model.

Can you handle loyalty program enrollment and support?+

Agents can enroll eligible callers during the booking conversation and help members with rewards questions, points redemptions, and tier servicing.

Do you support after-hours and overnight reservation calls?+

Customer Direct provides 24/7/365 coverage. Route calls full-time or use agreed rules for after-hours, weekend, and holiday traffic.

Can agents quote rates and availability, or just take messages?+

Agents can view live availability, quote dynamic rates, explain room options, recommend approved add-ons, and complete bookings during the call.

Do you support Spanish-speaking guests?+

Customer Direct maintains English- and Spanish-speaking agent teams to serve diverse markets.

Can you handle overflow during events, holidays, or peak season?+

Overflow routing can transfer calls when your lines are busy or unanswered after a set number of rings, adding reservation capacity during events, holidays, and peak periods.

How do we receive booking details and guest requests?+

Reservation data is updated directly in your CRS or PMS. Guest requests, message logs, and program reports can be delivered through agreed channels, including email, a portal, or available API integrations.

How is pricing determined for a hospitality program?+

Pricing is based on estimated call volume, system complexity, and the coverage model, including dedicated CRO staffing or shared and overflow coverage. Contact our team for a property-specific proposal.