For travel & OTA operations

Booking ops, run by experts. Built for OTAs that scale.

Arbitrail provides services across OTA booking lifecycle converting Inquiries into reservations, changing reactive CS approach into Proactive strategies with HCN services Catching booking errors before check in and serving guests through every interaction. The Ops team you don’t have to hire.

30% Avg inquiry conversion
~69% GMV recovered (TTT0 Verification)
95% Min QA score
24/7 Multi-language coverage
What we run

Three services. One booking lifecycle.

Inquiries become reservations. Reservations stay clean. Guests keep coming back. Every stage of the OTA booking lifecycle, run by Arbitrail.

Stage 01 · Convert
HRS
Hotel Reservation Service
30%
Avg Conversion Rate (benchmark is 14%)

Pre-booking inbound reservation management. Capture inquiries, validate availability, address objections, and convert into confirmed bookings.

  • Real-time availability validation
  • Guest preferences (room, occupancy, board)
  • Objection handling & direct-book positioning
  • 95% min QA score on every interaction
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Stage 02 · Protect
HCN
Pre Arrival Detection Service
~69%
GMV recovered via TTT0 Verification

Pre Arrival Verifications. Catch critical failed bookings, Missing HCN, No VCC on file, MCD Discrepancies and Checkin risks upon arrival.

  • HCN verification on every booking
  • VCC validation & channel manager sync
  • MCD discrepancy resolution
  • Real-time exposure dashboards
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Stage 03 · Serve
CS & Backoffice
Post Booking Customer Service & Operations
24/7
Omnichannel multi-level coverage

Post-booking day-to-day Customer Service and Operations. Omnichannel support, escalation handling, retention, amendments, and back-office data processing. Coverage that keeps confirmed bookings, confirmed.

  • Omnichannel customer service across calls, chat, email
  • Escalation & churn-prevention specialists
  • PNR handling, amendments & itinerary changes
  • Back-office data processing & admin workflows
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How HCN actually works

OTA’s don’t book directly at the hotel.

When a guest books a reservation on an OTA platform, the reservation passes through travel partners and different suppliers before reaching the hotel. Multiple suppliers that trade bookings. HCNs flow back through the same chain.

The failure mode

Three things go wrong
at the front desk.

The guest finds out before the OTA does. They’re standing in the lobby after a long flight when one of three things lands.

1

No booking at the hotel

The hotel is not aware of the booking. The reservation lives in a supplier’s database, never made through to final destination.

2

No VCC on file

The hotel didn’t receive payment for the booking by the supplier.

3

Reservation cancelled

The hotel and the supplier couldn’t complete the reservation due to overbooking, changes, or cancellation by the supplier.

What happens next

A cascade no OTA can afford.

After a long journey, the guest arrives at the hotel only to find there is no room. Left with no choice, they pay directly with their own credit card and dispute the original OTA transaction.

From there, the cascade moves fast: chargebacks, congested support lines, negative reviews, social-media exposure, and a customer-experience team buried under escalations. Worst of all, the guest has just discovered they no longer need the OTA to book.

By the time the OTA learns of the failure, the damage is already done.

The proactive approach

We bypass supply chain Direct-to-hotel Verification

we connect directly with final destination for each booking in your flow.

Our teams validate each reservation against the final destination’s front desk and management systems, checking every detail to find critical-stage bookings. Out of hundreds of thousands of reservations, we surface the ones most likely to fail at check-in, alerting the OTA and resolving each issue before the guest arrives at the hotel. The result is a seamless check-in, with the guest never knowing there was a problem.

Lower CS cost

Fewer escalation queues, fewer agents, less peak-time overload.

Brand protection

No chargebacks. No public complaints. No support fires to put out.

Channel preservation

The guest doesn’t learn they can book direct with the hotel.

Reactive → proactive

Your CX team plans the day instead of putting out fires.

Recovered GMV is the smallest piece of what HCN saves. The bigger win is operational rhythm.
See HCN in action

Model your Pre Arrival exposure.

Drag the slider to see how much GMV is exposed at your booking volume, and how much our TTT (Time To Travel) HCN verification recovers. Calibrated against real OTA deployment data.

Live model
Pre Arrival exposure
at $320 ABV · 11% baseline failure rate
Monthly bookings 180,000
50K 200K 350K 500K
Flagged at-risk
19,800
bookings · 11% baseline
GMV at risk
$577K
unprotected exposure / month
Net protected
$397K
via TTT0 HCN Verification · ~69%

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FAQ for travel & OTA teams

Questions OTAs actually ask us.

The technical and operational questions prospects raise most before signing. If yours isn’t here, drop us a note.

How does HCN Verification integrate with my channel manager or CRS?
You can provide daily CSV files, or we can connect via API to your channel manager or directly to your OTA accounts. Standard integrations take 2-5 days; custom integrations 1-2 weeks. We pull bookings on a rolling 48-hour window, flag at-risk records, and push corrections back into your stack through the same API or via other channels like Slack.
What’s the SLA on TTT3 verifications?
Our standard verification window is TTT3 (Time to travel of 72 hours before check-in) so OTAs have maximum lead time to fix findings. Bookings inside TTT0, TTT1, and TTT2 are prioritized first because the time pressure is highest: critical cases handled within 60 minutes, the rest within 6 business hours. 100% of in-scope bookings get verified.
What data do you need access to?
When we verify a booking, we use several data points from the booking record: Hotel Name, HCN, Guests, Nights, Dates, Room Type, Board Type, Number of Rooms, and any special requests, plus confirmation that the hotel has a VCC on file. We work with read-only access and never handle raw payment details. Full data-handling spec is in our DPA.
What languages do you operate in?
We provide all of our services natively in English. Other languages such as Spanish, Tagalog, Bahasa Indonesia, Vietnamese, and Mandarin are available on request.
Do you offer a POC before a long-term commitment?
Yes. Standard engagement starts with a 15-day no-risk POC tied to specific success metrics and QA scores. If we don’t hit the metrics we set together, you walk. No fee.
What happens after you flag a risky booking?
HCN Verification is preventive, we surface every at-risk booking so it can be acted on before the guest is impacted. What happens next depends on your service mix. If you also use Arbitrail's Escalation or Back-Office teams, the flagged booking is handed to them and we drive the recovery end-to-end. If HCN Verification is your only Arbitrail service, our HCN team passes the booking to your CX team and recovery sits on your side.

Ready to run booking ops like the best OTAs do?

30-minute intro call. We’ll map your booking lifecycle, identify the leakiest stage, and scope a 30-day pilot tied to outcomes, not headcount.

30-day pilot, results-tied No long-term contract Reply within 24 hours
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