Some improvements for Hostels?
Posted: Wed Jan 29, 2020 2:51 pm
Hello, I am new here. Really like the open source nature of this project!
Anyways, it seems there could be some smaller improvements to make it more attractive to Hostels specifically. They are usually a low margin business of open minded young(er) entrepreneurs so HotelDruid could be a very interesting option.
Recently I came accross this interesting articlee:
https://thehostelhelper.com/hostel-statistics/
It is an obvious sales pitch for cloudbeds, but I think it shows that with some small improvements HotelDruid could become a good alternative.
Primarily it would be that Hostelworld would become a supported service for the channel manager. They support XML two way communication, so it should not be too different from the already natively supported ones like booking.com
Furthermore better support and clearer pricing for individual beds in the hosted version of HotelDruid would be cool.
Last but not least, I noticed that there is a Github repo, but it is not actively used for development: https://github.com/digital-druid/hoteldruid
So if you would like to cater to external contributions (for example a modernized interface using a CSS framework like Bulma) it would be really helpful if a more open development style with a public git repo could be established.
Thanks a lot!
Anyways, it seems there could be some smaller improvements to make it more attractive to Hostels specifically. They are usually a low margin business of open minded young(er) entrepreneurs so HotelDruid could be a very interesting option.
Recently I came accross this interesting articlee:
https://thehostelhelper.com/hostel-statistics/
It is an obvious sales pitch for cloudbeds, but I think it shows that with some small improvements HotelDruid could become a good alternative.
Primarily it would be that Hostelworld would become a supported service for the channel manager. They support XML two way communication, so it should not be too different from the already natively supported ones like booking.com
Furthermore better support and clearer pricing for individual beds in the hosted version of HotelDruid would be cool.
Last but not least, I noticed that there is a Github repo, but it is not actively used for development: https://github.com/digital-druid/hoteldruid
So if you would like to cater to external contributions (for example a modernized interface using a CSS framework like Bulma) it would be really helpful if a more open development style with a public git repo could be established.
Thanks a lot!