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Every booking, every stay, every return guest, one conversation.

Your guests book, ask and review on WhatsApp, WeChat, LINE and Instagram, in whatever language your guests speak. imBee unifies every channel in one inbox, with governed AI grounded in your inventory and rates, and 300+ PMS, POS and booking-engine integrations, so you turn ad clicks into direct bookings, pre-arrival into upsell, in-stay into service, and post-stay into loyalty.

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imBee inbox showing live conversations
Direct booking made
Booked direct in chat
Japanese concierge
Live in 7 languages
5-min
response → 3–5× direct-booking conversion vs >1 hourLead Response Management research
71%
more likely to buy from a business they can messageMeta + Kantar research
~68%
read rate on opt-in WhatsApp, pre-arrival & post-stay seen in minutesmessaging-platform benchmark data

Cited industry benchmarks (Lead Response Management, Meta + Kantar research, WhatsApp benchmark data). Not imBee client results.

獲得來自 60 多個產業、超過 10,000 家企業的信賴

已取得 ISO/IEC 27001 認證 Official Meta Technology Partner · official WhatsApp Business Platform 10,000+ enterprises across 60+ industries

The hospitality reality

Every slow reply is a guest who books somewhere else.

Guests message in seven languages, on the channels Western tools don't speak. PMS-disconnected messaging makes staff re-key everything. Every booking you don't convert direct hands commission to a third-party channel. And the inquiry you answer an hour late is already a booking at the property across the road.

01

Third-party commissions eat your margin

Commission on third-party bookings compounds across the year, and every slow first reply pushes the booker back to the channels that charge it. Click-to-WhatsApp from your own ads and metasearch recovers that margin, if you answer fast enough.

02

Fragmented channels, no WeChat, no LINE

Mainland Chinese guests live on WeChat, Japanese guests on LINE, Bahasa- and Thai-speaking ASEAN travellers on WhatsApp. English-first Western tools can't capture, confirm or win them back in the language they actually book in.

03

PMS-disconnected messaging forces re-keying

Guest-comms tools that don't see your PMS, POS or booking engine make staff retype every request and rate. The thread says one thing, the system says another, and the guest gets a wrong quote or a room that isn't free.

04

The front desk drowns in repeat questions

Wi-Fi password, breakfast hours, late-checkout, airport-transfer price, pool times, spa availability: the same questions answered by phone and at the desk all day, while booking calls wait on hold and the queue builds at peak.

05

Guests channel-hop and your team loses the thread

An enquiry starts on Instagram, moves to WhatsApp, the deposit is chased by email and the booking-channel message sits in an extranet nobody checks, so context is lost, the same guest is asked the same thing twice, and follow-ups quietly drop.

06

Complaints surface in a review, not in the room

A problem the guest never reported in-house becomes a one-star public review after checkout. Without real-time service recovery routed to the right team, you find out about the issue when it is already too late to fix.

One guest lifecycle, end to end

Discover, stay, return, all in one multilingual conversation.

A single inbox carries each guest from the first WhatsApp inquiry to the next repeat-stay, with AI grounded in your real room inventory, rate card and F&B menu.

1 Discover & Book

Book rooms and facilities inside the chat.

Click-to-WhatsApp ads, QR codes and your website land the traveller in a 1:1 multilingual thread with instant answers and AI-grounded availability pulled live from your PMS or booking engine. A native WhatsApp Form (imBee's no-code builder on Meta's WhatsApp Flows) then captures the booking inside the chat: a room or a facility (restaurant table, spa session, day pass, event space), dates, party size and preferences, with no browser redirect, the step where web forms lose about half of the people who start them. A deposit is collected via a secure payment link to a PCI-DSS-certified gateway, and confirmation, itinerary and tiered reminders with one-tap confirm or change land on the lock screen, not in a spam folder.

  • 7-language instant response (Cantonese, Mandarin, JP, KR, EN, MS, TH)
  • In-chat booking via WhatsApp Form: rooms, dining, spa & facilities
  • AI-grounded availability & rate quote pulled live from your PMS
  • Deposit via a secure payment link to a PCI-DSS-certified gateway
  • Confirmation, itinerary & tiered reminders with one-tap confirm or change
  • Abandoned-enquiry recovery for guests who asked but didn't book
  • Group, corporate-rate and MICE / event enquiries routed to the right team
WhatsApp booking confirmation with itinerary and rate, grounded in the hotel PMS
2 Pre-arrival & In-stay

Concierge service that scales, in seven languages.

Tiered 7/3/1-day confirmation reminders with itinerary, contactless pre-check-in collected in chat, and pre-arrival upsells (room upgrade, airport transfer, dining, spa, late checkout) offered at the moment of intent. In-stay, the guest orders room service, requests housekeeping, books the restaurant, asks for the Wi-Fi password or help with their mobile key, and flags any problem, all in the same thread. AI handles the routine; staff handles VIPs, complaints and judgement calls, and a complaint gets caught while the guest is still in the building.

  • Pre-check-in collected in chat, contactless, no front-desk queue
  • Pre-arrival upsell, upgrade, transfer, dining, spa, late checkout
  • In-stay requests: room service, housekeeping, restaurant, late checkout
  • Wi-Fi, arrival info & mobile-key help on request
  • Real-time service recovery routed to the right team before checkout
  • Multilingual concierge with live PMS context beside every guest
  • AI deflects routine questions 24/7; hard handoff to staff for VIP & complaints
imBee AI handling a multilingual in-stay concierge request with PMS-grounded context
3 Post-stay & Return

Turn one stay into a relationship.

At checkout, the folio and a thank-you land in chat, followed by a one-tap CSAT prompt and a review request deep-linked to TripAdvisor, Google or Booking.com, seen far more often than the same ask by email. Then loyalty enrolment, repeat-booking offers timed to anniversaries, birthdays and seasonal gaps, and win-back nudges for lapsed guests, including your mainland-Chinese guests on WeChat, long after they've flown home.

  • Folio / invoice and checkout thank-you delivered in-chat
  • One-tap CSAT / NPS captured while the stay is still fresh
  • Review request with deep-link, far higher response than email
  • Loyalty enrolment + anniversary and birthday repeat-booking offers
  • Segmented win-back for lapsed guests across WhatsApp, WeChat & LINE
  • Seasonal and weekday-occupancy fill campaigns to past guests
  • Repeat-stay lift typical of WhatsApp loyalty vs email-only (industry benchmark)
WhatsApp broadcast for post-stay loyalty, review request and win-back

More use cases

More ways hospitality teams put imBee to work.

77% of travellers are interested in automated messaging or chatbots for hotel service requests (Oracle Hospitality + Skift, 2022). Distilled from how hotel groups, resorts and F&B operators answer that demand, booking to checkout to the return stay.

Book

Widget-to-booking nurture

A website prompt captures the looker who doesn't book today; automated offers bring them back, and every recovered booking is attributed, so marketing finally sees which message paid.

Published hotel results: direct bookings tripled within a year of widget-led campaigns. (published sector case)

Book

Third-party guest data recovery

Guests who arrive via third-party booking channels share their real contact details during the stay, so the next booking, and the relationship, come to you direct instead of renting the guest back.

Published hotel results: up to 23% of third-party guests' contact details recovered. (published sector case)

Book

Booking-moment ancillary offers

The confirmation message carries the airport transfer, the excursion and the travel-insurance offer, sold at the moment of maximum intent, not buried in a pre-arrival email.

Book

See which ads actually start bookings

Click-to-WhatsApp conversations arrive tagged with the campaign behind them, so you can see which destinations and offers turn into real booking conversations, and steer next month's spend on evidence rather than click-throughs.

Pre-arrival

Digital check-in and keys

PMS-triggered pre-check-in in chat, then the digital key and Wi-Fi code before the taxi arrives: the front desk greets guests instead of processing them.

Published hotel-group results: online check-ins up 200% after moving the flow into chat. (published sector case)

Pre-arrival

Profile-segmented journeys

Pre-arrival flows keyed to rate plan and party type: the family gets the kids-club note and early dinner slots, the couple gets the spa and the late checkout offer.

Pre-arrival

Pre-departure ops journeys

For tours and packages: balance-payment reminders on schedule, passport and visa document checklists, and a day-before briefing with pickup time and packing list, operations that used to be phone calls.

In-stay

Mid-stay satisfaction pulse

A quick pulse on day one. A poor answer alerts the duty manager while there's still time to fix the stay, service recovery before the public review, not after it.

In-stay

Request-to-task loop

A guest request auto-creates a prioritised housekeeping or engineering task, and the guest gets pinged when it's done. The loop closes without a walkie-talkie relay.

In-stay

Call deflection at the desk

A QR at reception and an IVR prompt move routine calls (towels, taxis, table bookings) into chat, where one agent handles five conversations at once.

Published hotel-group results: incoming calls down ~70% while direct room bookings and table reservations rose. (published sector case)

Ancillary

In-chat service catalogue

Spa slots, dining menus and experiences browsable and bookable inside the thread: the minibar card, upgraded to a revenue channel.

Ancillary

Preference-triggered upsells

Late checkout, spa and F&B offers matched to recorded preferences and sent mid-stay, when the guest can still say yes, ancillary revenue without a hard sell.

Published hotel results: ~20% more upsell revenue from preference-matched offers. (published sector case)

F&B

Cart-to-kitchen ordering

Diners browse the catalogue, order and pay by link in chat, then get confirmed / preparing / ready updates, and table reservations run on the same thread with automatic reminders.

F&B

AI diner micro-segmentation

AI segments your dining CRM (the bakery regulars, the weekend brunch families, the lapsed loyalty members) and each group gets its own offer journey instead of one blast for everyone.

Published HK F&B-group results: average order value up 50–100% on segmented journeys. (published sector case)

Post-stay

Express checkout

Settle the folio, arrange luggage storage and book the airport transfer in chat: the 11am queue disappears, and the last memory of the stay is effortless.

Loyalty

Loyalty enrolment nudges

Enrolment offered at arrival in one tap; perk reminders after the stay keep the programme, and the direct booking link, one thumb away at trip-planning time.

Benchmarks shown are third-party industry research or published sector case results, not imBee measurements.

Governed AI

AI that never invents rates. Never promises a room that isn't free.

imBee AI for hospitality is grounded in YOUR real room inventory, rate card, F&B menu and curated local-concierge guide. It never quotes a rate it can't verify and never promises a room it doesn't have, and it hands off to a human for VIP requests, complaints and anything requiring judgement. It is the brand-safe concierge that answers in the guest's language and stays on your script, where rivals ship a generic FAQ bot.

Plus seven languages built in: Cantonese, Mandarin, English, Japanese, Korean, Bahasa and Thai, and reach on WeChat and LINE, so you serve your mainland-Chinese and Japanese guests where they actually are. That is the multilingual, true-omnichannel depth Western-built hospitality-messaging tools can't match.

CantoneseMandarinEnglishJapaneseKoreanBahasaThaiWhatsApp · WeChat · LINE
imBee AI drafting a governed, grounded reply in the imBee Team Inbox

該平台

Everything to win, serve and keep the guest.

A complete, enterprise-grade toolkit, built so hotels, serviced residences and F&B groups can move fast across the guest lifecycle, in every language they book in.

跨平台收件箱

WhatsApp, WeChat, LINE, Instagram, Facebook, SMS and webchat in one inbox, with PMS profile, stay history and loyalty tier beside every thread. Booking-channel messages consolidated, so nothing sits unread in an extranet.

營銷企劃及群發訊息

Segmented opt-in broadcasts to past guests (seasonal offers, special-occasion reactivation, weekday dining and occupancy-fill promos) with delivery and booking-attribution analytics.

imBee AI, governed intelligence

AI grounded in YOUR room inventory, rate card, F&B menu and local guide. Answers in seven languages, never invents availability or pricing, hard handoff on VIP and complaints.

Booking, Upsell & Payments in Chat

AI-grounded availability and rate quotes, pre-check-in and pre-arrival upsell, and deposits via a secure payment link to a PCI-DSS-certified gateway, card data never sits in the message body.

聊天機械人及自動化流程

Visual workflows plus 300+ integrations across PMS, POS, booking engines, channel managers, loyalty platforms and CRM, so the message reflects the real reservation, menu and loyalty balance.

數據管治

ISO/IEC 27001 certified, role-based access, full audit trail, payment routing that keeps card data with PCI-DSS-certified gateways (never in message bodies), and handling built for your local privacy-law obligations across every property.

Multi-property trust, by design. ISO/IEC 27001 certified, role-based access, full audit trail, payment routing that keeps deposits and folios with PCI-DSS-certified gateways (never in message bodies), and handling built for your local privacy-law obligations, for hotel groups handling guest data across multiple properties.

為什麼選擇 imBee

Built for global tourism, end to end.

Western-built hospitality-messaging tools are English-first, WeChat-blind and PMS-light. imBee speaks your guests' languages, reaches your mainland-Chinese guests on WeChat, and grounds the AI in your real inventory.

1

7 languages, incl. WeChat + LINE

Cantonese, Mandarin, English, Japanese, Korean, Bahasa, Thai, for HK, Macau, SG, Bangkok, Tokyo, Bali and mainland-linked inbound.

2

WeChat reach for your Chinese guests

Capture, confirm, concierge and win back mainland-Chinese guests on WeChat alongside WhatsApp: the channel Western rivals simply don't serve as a hospitality story.

3

Full lifecycle, not just one stage

Discover → Book → Pre-arrival → In-stay → Post-stay, plus loyalty and win-back, on one platform, not a booking-only or reminders-only point tool.

4

Direct-booking economics, made explicit

Click-to-WhatsApp from your ads and metasearch converts intent and keeps the commission you'd otherwise hand a third-party channel.

5

PMS / POS / booking-engine integration depth

300+ integrations: the message reflects real reservation, real menu, real loyalty balance, so staff never re-key.

6

Governed AI grounded in your inventory

imBee AI never invents rates, availability or local recommendations. Answers in seven languages, hard handoff on VIP and complaints.

7

ISO 27001 + PCI-DSS-aware payments

Multi-property guest data and deposits handled with the governance procurement actually asks for, certified gateways, full audit trail, RBAC.

Questions

Everything you might be wondering.

Will WhatsApp messaging really lift direct bookings? +
Yes. Click-to-WhatsApp lead campaigns cut cost-per-lead ~24% (Meta published results), and responding to a direct-booking inquiry within five minutes yields 3–5x higher conversion than waiting over an hour (Lead Response Management research). Every booking converted direct keeps the third-party commission in your pocket.
Can guests book rooms and facilities without leaving WhatsApp? +
Yes. WhatsApp Form, imBee's no-code builder on Meta's WhatsApp Flows, opens a structured booking form inside the chat: room or facility (a restaurant table, spa session, day pass or event space), dates, party size and preferences, with no browser redirect, the step where web forms lose about half of the people who start them. A deposit is collected via a secure payment link to a PCI-DSS-certified gateway, then confirmation and tiered reminders with one-tap confirm or change keep the booking solid.
How does pre-arrival and in-stay messaging actually drive revenue? +
Opt-in WhatsApp messages have ~68% read rates within minutes (messaging-platform benchmark data), so pre-arrival upsells (room upgrade, airport transfer, dining, spa, late checkout) and in-stay add-ons reach the guest at the moment of intent rather than buried in email. Hotel-upsell research (Oaky) shows well-timed pre-arrival offers convert strongly, with a measurable lift in ancillary revenue per guest.
Can guests do pre-check-in and in-stay requests in the chat? +
Yes. Guests complete pre-check-in in the conversation before they arrive, no front-desk queue, and during the stay they order room service, request housekeeping, book the restaurant, ask for the Wi-Fi password or mobile-key help, and request late checkout, all in the same thread. Routine requests are handled automatically 24/7; VIPs, complaints and judgement calls go straight to your team.
Can it catch and route complaints before the guest leaves a bad review? +
Yes: that's the point of real-time service recovery. A problem the guest raises in-chat is routed instantly to the right team (housekeeping, billing, F&B, duty manager) so it's resolved while the guest is still in the building, not after checkout in a one-star public review. Post-stay, a one-tap CSAT prompt surfaces any lingering issue before the review request goes out.
Is imBee AI safe to use on guest conversations, won't it invent availability or rates? +
No. imBee AI is governed: it is grounded in your real room inventory, rate card, F&B menu and local-concierge guide pulled from your PMS, POS and booking engine. It never quotes a rate or promises a room it cannot verify, answers in the guest's language, and hands off to a human for VIP, complaints, or anything requiring judgement, unlike a generic FAQ chatbot.
Which channels and languages does imBee cover for tourism? +
WhatsApp, WeChat, LINE, Instagram, Facebook Messenger, SMS and webchat, all in one inbox. Languages include Cantonese, Mandarin, English, Japanese, Korean, Bahasa Indonesia / Malaysia and Thai: the named regional coverage Western tools hide behind a generic 'multilingual AI' label.
Can we actually reach our mainland-Chinese guests? +
Yes, and this is where most Western-built tools simply stop. imBee supports WeChat alongside WhatsApp and LINE in the same inbox, so you can capture, confirm, concierge and win back mainland-Chinese guests on the channel they live on (decisive for HK, Macau and inbound tourism) with Mandarin language coverage and AI grounded in your inventory.
Does it integrate with our PMS, POS, booking engine and loyalty platform? +
Yes, 300+ integrations across PMS, POS, booking engines, channel managers, loyalty platforms and CRM. Guest messages reflect real reservation status, real menu items and real loyalty balances, so staff never re-key. Specific system compatibility is confirmed during scoping.
Can guests pay deposits or settle the folio in the conversation? +
You can send a secure payment link to a PCI-DSS-certified gateway for deposits and balances, and deliver the folio or invoice in chat. Card and payment data are handled by the certified gateway and never stored in the message body. Specific gateway mapping is confirmed during scoping.
Is it secure enough to handle guest data and payments across multiple properties? +
imBee is ISO/IEC 27001 certified with role-based access (RBAC) and a full audit trail, built for operators with personal-data obligations in every market they serve. Deposits and folios are handled by PCI-DSS-certified payment gateways via a secure link, payment data is never stored in message bodies, and guest data is governed per property.
Does WhatsApp messaging actually lift repeat-stay rate? +
Industry benchmarks point to a meaningful repeat-stay lift when WhatsApp and WeChat post-stay loyalty programs replace email-only nudges (industry benchmark, directional, not an imBee result), and post-stay review collection sees materially higher response on messaging than email (industry research). The gain is largest where you currently rely on email-only post-stay marketing.
Can it handle group, corporate and MICE / event enquiries? +
Yes. Group, corporate-rate, wedding and MICE enquiries are captured in chat and routed to the right team or sales owner, with the full thread and context preserved. On-property and venue QR codes turn walk-by interest into a tracked conversation, and the enquiry can sync to your CRM for follow-up.
How long does it take to launch on imBee, and what does onboarding look like? +
Typical hospitality deployments go live in weeks, not quarters. Onboarding covers WhatsApp / WeChat / LINE business-channel verification, PMS / POS / booking-engine integration, imBee AI grounding on your inventory and menu, staff training, and pre-arrival / post-stay template approval. Pricing is per-seat plus channel usage; we scope per group (properties, channels, expected volume) on a demo call.

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