Inspiring hotel photos for more direct bookings

October 1, 2021

Hotel love at first sight!

A picture is worth a thousand words and first impressions count: To make your website visitors fall in love with your hotel, you need expressive, professional photos and videos. Where can you get them? This article will tell you!

Own hotel photographer often too expensive and time-consuming

The problem: a professional photo shoot with a hotel photographer requires long preparationspossibly. and is not alwaysnot least seasonalif you want to photograph outdoor areas. Do you have the time and money for a really good professional at your side? Is your house really individual and photogenic in every detail? Then then an individual photo shoot is the best solution.

A hotel photographer takes photos in a hotel

Two delicious cocktails on the edge of a hotel pool

Stock photos as a cheap alternative

In most cases, the reality is different: your website is as good as finished and ready to go live - only good hotel photos are still missing. Your budget is tight and not all corners of the hotel are really "photo-ready". This is where the offers from so-called stock archives. In them you can find hundreds of thousands of professionally shot photos on all themes and at affordable prices or free of charge.
Because honestly: which guest will notice whether the tastefully decorated breakfast pictures, the cappuccino cup or the freshly made pillow were really photographed in your house? It is precisely for such symbolic images that the offers of the picture agencies are suitable for visually enhance your website and make you want to make a booking.

Significant differences in image selection, quality and costs

The numerous picture agencies on the Internet differ not only in terms of quantity and quality of the images available. They also license terms and usage costs are also often very different. Paid agencies, including iStock, Shutterstock and Getty Images, offer different price and subscription models. Ea directr cost comparison is difficult. An overview of the bof the most popularagencies and price models we have therefore in the table below. Tip: Subscription models can be worthwhile for you if you always need new if you need new pictures over a longer period of time: for example for newsletters- or social media marketing. If you only need images once for your new website, a onen "free" trial monthlike the one offered by Shutterstock.

A young hotel manager sits at the table and concentrates on her work

You can also find this beautiful picture of Cologne Cathedral at hellohotel

Free images for your hotel website

But why should you pay for your Holtel pictures at all? Especially when it comes to symbol photos, you can also find them in free image databases more and better hotel pictures. We have also put together an overview of the providers with the best stock on the subject of hotel photography.

Large selection of free pictures: hellohotel recommends Pexels

Our favorite among the free image databases is Pexels. Not only are all images here free of charge and license-free. The over 11.000 impressive hotel pictures form from our point of view the most beautiful and extensive collection on this topic. You will find motifs for all areas of your website - from hotel room photos, hotel reception, to pictures in the restaurant, wellness area or at the breakfast buffet.

A great hotel picture with a young woman in bed

A man and a woman are walking along the beach holding hands.

With hellohotel Search for images and insert them directly into your website

If you have your website with hellohotel.io and want to access the photos from Pexels, we offer you a particularly easy way. You can directly in the layout area of hellohotel to access the Pexels search engine, search for your desired images without changing programs, select them and add them to your pagelayout with a click. Magic, isn't it? But of course you can also easilyintegrate your own images or images from other photo archives into your hellohotelpage by uploading them.

From us to you:

Your overview of the most important image databases and their cost models

Our image database recommendation for the hotels - at Pixels you will find thousands of impressive photos.

Pexels

German company with more than 11,000 free hotel pictures. Our favorite!

prices: free of charge.

Licenses: License-free digital use. Photos can be edited. As a small thank you, the photographer can be mentioned via ©.

https://www.pexels.com/de-de/

Pixabay

International website for free photos, videos and illustrations. The database contains more than 2.2 million photos - including beautiful hotel and city images.

prices: free of charge.

Licenses: free commercial use.

https://pixabay.com/de/