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4.6 (248 REVIEWS)
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100 out of 100
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Smart Host CRM
Ranked 1 (out of 76) in Hotel CRM & Email Marketing
2026 Finalist
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Hoteliers voted Smart Host GmbH as the #3 Hotel CRM & Email Marketing provider in the 2026 HotelTechAwards
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92% recommended by 238 hotels
All Suite Resorts, Andreus Resorts, Schlosshotel & 235 others
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Hoteliers say
Smart Host is praised for helping hotels centralize guest data, segment audiences, and automate personalized campaigns that drive more direct bookings and higher email engagement. Reviewers say it reduces manual work in pre-/post-stay communication, newsletter creation, and offer handling, while improving guest experience through tailored messaging and branded design. Buyers should note recurring gaps around advanced reporting, filters, booking-button tracking, and some offer/check-in/payment workflow limitations.
All Suite Resorts, Andreus Resorts, Schlosshotel & 235 others
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Industry experts recommend Smart Host CRM for its seamless integration with PMS and other hotel systems, facilitating real-time, personalized guest interactions. Its ability to intelligently segment guest data, automate campaigns, and offer dynamic survey options distinguishes it in the crowded market. The user-friendly interface, combined with robust data analysis tools, ensures high ROI by enhancing guest engagement and operational efficiency. Some criticisms include the need for continuous training due to frequent updates, occasional complexity in feature utilization, and the necessity for more in-depth analytics support.
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Size
6 | X-Small (1-9 room)
116 | Small (10-49 room)
101 | Mid-Sized (50-99 room)
35 | Large (100-499 room)
1 | X-Large (500+ room)
Country
111 | Austria
72 | Germany
38 | Italy
35 | Switzerland
1 | Greece
1 | United Arab Emirates
Type
107 | Boutique Hotels
83 | Bed & Breakfast & Inns
80 | Luxury Hotels
74 | Resorts
61 | Airport/Conference Hotels
50 | Branded Hotels
45 | City Center Hotels
44 | Limited Service & Budget Hotels
20 | Extended Stay & Serviced Apartments
10 | Vacation Rentals & Villas
8 | Hostels
3 | RV Parks & Campgrounds
2 | Casinos
1 | Motels
Region
257 | Europe
1 | Middle East
Category
248 | Hotel CRM & Email Marketing
157 | Guest Messaging Software
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What is Smart Host GmbH?
Founded in 2017 | Headquarters in Berlin (Germany) | 23 employees
Smart Host CRM is a hotel CRM and guest communication platform that helps hotels centralize guest data, connect with PMS and other systems, segment audiences, and automate personalized messaging across the guest lifecycle. It streamlines pre-stay, in-stay, and post-stay communication, email campaigns, newsletters, and offers, making outreach more efficient and more relevant. By using automation and AI, it supports stronger guest loyalty, higher engagement, and more direct bookings while fitting smoothly into daily hotel operations.
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"Smart Host is the hotel CRM for more direct bookings and all communications in the guest lifecycle. With smart automation, PMS connection and AI, hotels use their data to make communication targeted, efficient and effective. More direct bookings, stronger guest loyalty, measurable success - visible in real time and at a glance in Smart Host, the world's most user-friendly hotel CRM."
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Capabilities
Send pre-stay surveys to upsell and enrich customers
Send pre-stay surveys to upsell and enrich customers
Our integrated artificial intelligence ensures that we propose a campaign plan optimized for your hotel from all available data. Automated booking periods, public holidays or school vacations are displayed and the personal seasonal and booking preferences of your guests are taken into account, so that you can set up exactly the right newsletter campaigns.
Get alerts for upcoming holidays and demand periods
Get alerts for upcoming holidays and demand periods
Our integrated artificial intelligence ensures that we propose a campaign plan optimized for your hotel from all available data. Automated booking periods, public holidays or school vacations are displayed and the personal seasonal and booking preferences of your guests are taken into account, so that you can set up exactly the right newsletter campaigns.
Segment your guests to send targeted campaigns
Segment your guests to send targeted campaigns
You do not trust our campaign suggestions? No problem, you can also easily create the perfect target group yourself. With just a few clicks, you create the desired recipient segments and specify, among things like demographics, loyalty, interests, or even booking and stay behavior for your target group.
Drag-n-drop newsletter builder to bring back guests
Drag-n-drop newsletter builder to bring back guests
With our Smart Host building block system, you create Newsletters simply by dragging and dropping. You decide where you want to insert images, texts, links and other parts you would like to use. Next, you can fill your newsletter with individual content. All communication takes place in the design of your company, which we have already stored for you.
Measure campaign success with detailed reporting
Measure campaign success with detailed reporting
Transparent reporting forms are the basis for campaigns and should help you to continuously improve your campaigns. You receive not only information on opening and click rates, but also a measurement of the revenues (inquiries and campaign bookings).
Features
Marketing Automation
4/5 features
Template Builder
4/5 features
Guest Profiles
4/5 features
Segmentation
4/5 features
Privacy & Compliance
4/5 features
Data Management
4/5 features
Feedback & Surveys
4/5 features
Available Add-ons & Modules
Campaigns
Our campaign module uses the information from intelligent guest profiles, to automatically suggest perfect campaigns. Such campaigns are inherently geared to the preferences and booking behavior of your guests. You only have to worry about the content of the newsletter. You do not trust our suggestions? No problem, create suitable recipient segments yourself!
Guest Profiles
Our guest module is the central collection point for your guest data. The data from your hotel program, from the surveys and from the intelligent Smart Host analysis and together they result in a rich guest profile. This gives you a complete picture of your guests and their needs. This module is the basis for all further modules.
Pre-Stay Surveys
Inform yourself before the arrival of your guests about their interests. With the help of our Pre-Stay Surveys you can collect the preferences of your guests and use them to further automatically enrich guest profiles. In addition, you have the opportunity to place your upselling offers even before your guests arrive.
Post-Stay Surveys
The stay-related communication with your guests is rounded off by personalized post-stay evaluation surveys. This enables you to find out what is important to your guests on site and how you can improve your performance even further. We offer you the opportunity to respond to negative reviews in a solution-oriented way and and to publish positive reviews on the most popular review portals.
Segmentation
You do not trust our campaign suggestions? No problem, you can also easily create the perfect target group yourself. With just a few clicks, you create the desired recipient segments and specify, among things like demographics, loyalty, interests, or even booking and stay behavior for your target group.
Newsletter Builder
With our Smart Host building block system, you create Newsletters simply by dragging and dropping. You decide where you want to insert images, texts, links and other parts you would like to use. Next, you can fill your newsletter with individual content. All communication takes place in the design of your company, which we have already stored for you.
Smart Host GmbH Reviews Summary
Ease of Use
4.7/5
Customer Support
4.9/5
ROI
4.2/5
Implementation
4.6/5
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Smart Host GmbH Case Studies
How Salzburger Hof Leogang Generated €61,715 From a Single Campaign to 232 Guests
Leogang (Austria)
How Lerch Genusswelten Cut OTA Revenue by €500K and Added €738K in Direct Bookings with Smart Host
Marktoberdorf (Germany)
Driving Engagement and Repeat Bookings
Bad Waltersdorf (Austria)
How MeineZeit hotels turned generic outreach into targeted campaigns and built a culture of digital change across five properties.
WendischRietz (Germany)
How Hotel Oderberger Perfected Guest Communication with Smart Host
Berlin (Germany)
How Hotel Post Ischgl restructured its guest communication with Smart Host
Ischgl (Austria)
Finally: easy guest communication
Westerstede (Germany)
More customer satisfaction in less time? Utopia?
Ratsch an der Weinstrasse (Austria)
No more unattractive newsletters from the PMS!
Sarnen (Switzerland)
Using Guest Data Correctly Through Automated Segmentation
Laces (Italy)
Easy handling & personal collaboration!
Titisee-Neustadt (Germany)
How Falkensteiner Hotels Personalizes its Marketing Communications to Drive More Revenue
Casteldarne (Italy)
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"We have been working with Smart Host for some time now and are extremely happy that we chose the system. This was the best decision. Our newsletters all look top "styled" and do little work. It simplifies a lot. The filtering works fantastic and is super useful for many other things as well. We would recommend it to anyone."
Carina
Natur- & Biohotel Bergzeit
"We use Smart Host for newsletter distribution, which we control according to target groups. Super simple! So the guest gets the information he is interested in."
Anna Scheriau
Hotel St. Oswald
"The planning of the newsletters is really very well organized and a very big help for us. In general, we find that SmartHost approaches their customers and takes care of them very well."
Familie Hofer
Wiesenhof Garden Resort
"We started with the campaign module years ago. It is so clear and simple that an extension to the offer manager was only logical. I would especially like to emphasize the extremely nice AND competent team around Julian Leitner. I can only recommend Smart Host across the board."
Andrea Kogler
Owner @
Hotel Kogler
"This is exactly how a newsletter program should be! Super easy to use - clear & logical. The selection is suggested by an algorithm and works flawlessly, so Smart Host relieves us of the most difficult part of sending newsletters. The interface to our hotel program allows transparency and the success is easily measurable. In addition, the customer service is very helpful! All questions and concerns are quickly addressed. In short - our expectations were exceeded!"
Alise P.
Hotel Post Ischgl
"Smart Host has really grown on us. This tool enables us to make our day-to-day work much easier with the offer manager. Newsletters alone were old fashioned, now it's the Smart Host campaigns that help us pick up the guest where their interest lies and give us an overview of what success the campaign is having in the first place."
Tanja Weirather
Inhaber @
Panorama Hotel Talhof
"For our hotel, Smart Host is an optimal relief for our employees in terms of correspondence with guests. In addition, a super contemporary sales tool for newsletter planning and design."
Gerhard Huber
Inhaber @
Concordia Wellnesshotel & Spa
"The arrival mailing is very good, because the guests can easily announce their wishes. For every change, the team is with the utmost care and fast implementation on my side. The review page is also top. If someone was not so happy, we can react immediately and the guest does not post it immediately on all online platforms. In times of Holiday Check and Co. a great advantage! I can only recommend the system."
Michaela Muster
Inhaberin @
Ratscher Landhaus - Hotel Sudsteiermark
"The newsletter planning is really a great tool with which you can advertise at the right time for the right period. You can send a lot of newsletters without being a annoyance, because the filtering works great and there is never a risk that guests get something twice or worse get a newsletter with a better price than the one they already have."
Mara Theiner
Manager @
Hotel Weisses Kreuz
"I have rarely experienced such friendly and competent support. Easy and understandable handling of the product. Everything is set up in such a way that you can use it without a lot of prior knowledge. You can send targeted newsletters and we have received an enormous increase in additional sales by sending pre-stay mails and learn a lot about our guests in advance, e.g. why the guest books with us. For us, this means that we can also provide the guest with specific information about his or her interests in advance."
Anja Herkenrath
Marketing Manager @
Torfhaus HARZRESORT
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The simplicity and operation is simply ingeniously designed. You can also see that new improvements and adjustments are constantly being made. Brilliant! Every single one of the campaigns is saved and you don't have to redesign everything every time, as is the case with many other systems. Guest group selections are also very simple. We are...
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Hotelsekretärin from 25-49 room Bed & Breakfast & Inn in Castelrotto (Italy)
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Honestly, how easy it is to work with. Smart Host is built for us, so we didn’t need IT to get going, and our personal success manager helps whenever we want to try something new. Add the reporting on opens, clicks and revenue from campaign bookings, and we can actually see which emails pay off for Elvano Apartments. Over 90% of the booking...
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Simple and fast!
Rezeptionistin from 25-49 room Branded Hotel in Saalbach-Hinterglemm (Austria)
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9 days ago
Beautiful design of the website, quick and uncomplicated creation of offers, automation of processes such as reminder emails, extras are a great feature.
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10
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Geschäftsführer from 25-49 room Branded Hotel in Saalbach-Hinterglemm (Austria)
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You can send your guests beautifully designed emails and websites without much effort. Once you have set them up, you save a lot of time. Since the data is transferred automatically, you don't have to check as much (did I transfer the right price, did I spell the name correctly, etc.).
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Rezeptionistin from 25-49 room Bed & Breakfast & Inn in Kastelruth (Italy)
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Smarthost offers great opportunities to design newsletters. It is easy to use and creating a newsletter is very easy. Even with large data sets and many recipients, everything works great. The functions of the pre and post stay mails are great and can be individually adapted and flexibly modeled. The functions of the booking overview and gu...
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8
Attractive view for guests
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14 days ago
-Creating an offer: clearly listed for the guest --> transparency, we gain trust - easy to handle; The tool is quickly explained to new colleagues - campaign manager - you can quickly achieve a large reach on your own in order to generate new bookings in times of low occupancy
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10
Everything was great - always happy
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The service is perfect, all wishes are implemented. If you need help there is always someone there. Requests are always accepted.
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Question:
What does this product or service do well?
Answer:
Smart Host does the groundwork of guest communication well: one central guest profile, built from your PMS data plus pre-stay and post-stay surveys, so booking history, preferences and interests sit in one place. In daily work that means the pre-arrival email tells your team about the extra pillow or the late check-in before the guest walks in, and after the stay you hear about a problem before it reaches a review portal, while happy guests get invited to leave a public review.
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Smart Host does the groundwork of guest communication well: one central guest profile, built from your PMS data plus pre-stay and post-stay surveys, so booking history, preferences and interests sit in one place. In daily work that means the pre-arrival email tells your team about the extra pillow or the late check-in before the guest walks in, and after the stay you hear about a problem before it reaches a review portal, while happy guests get invited to leave a public review.
Smart Host gives you one guest profile that actually knows your guest, because PMS data and survey answers end up in the same place. The pre-arrival email is where that pays off: special requests and personal wishes come in before check-in, so your team can prepare the room and the little details instead of scrambling at the front desk.
Smart Host is great at getting to know your guests before they even arrive. The pre-arrival email picks up special requests and personal wishes, so your team can prepare the room and the little details in advance instead of scrambling at check-in. And because PMS data and survey answers come together in one guest profile, you can see who’s coming back and what actually matters to them.
Smart Host gives you one guest profile that actually knows your guest, pulling booking history, preferences and interests together from your PMS and your surveys. The pre-arrival email is where that pays off: special requests come in before check-in, so your team can prepare the room and the small personal touches instead of scrambling at the front desk.
Smart Host is one of the most hotelier-focused CRM providers in the DACH region. Their product brings guest data from the PMS into clear guest profiles and turns it into personalised campaigns via email, WhatsApp and SMS, plus a fast offer manager that helps hotels drive direct bookings and reduce OTA dependency. What stands out is how outcome-driven they are: they speak about revenue, guest loyalty and time saved, not just features. As a partner, I appreciate their approachable, collaborative team and their strong co-marketing mindset, with joint webinars, events and real customer stories. Their support is rated excellent by their customers, and it shows in how they work with partners too. A great fit for independent hotels and groups that want to own the guest relationship.
Question:
What differentiates this product or service from the competition?
Answer:
What sets Smart Host apart is that the guest knowledge it collects doesn’t stay locked in the CRM. Picture a regular who mentioned in her pre-stay survey that she loves spa weekends. With that profile flowing into Triptease Audiences, she sees a matching offer when she returns to your website, your campaign reaches her across channels, and the Smart Host offer manager lets her accept and book in minutes, with the whole conversation bundled in one place.
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What sets Smart Host apart is that the guest knowledge it collects doesn’t stay locked in the CRM. Picture a regular who mentioned in her pre-stay survey that she loves spa weekends. With that profile flowing into Triptease Audiences, she sees a matching offer when she returns to your website, your campaign reaches her across channels, and the Smart Host offer manager lets her accept and book in minutes, with the whole conversation bundled in one place.
What sets Smart Host apart is that it catches feedback before it goes public. A guest grumbles about a noisy room in the post-stay survey, and your team can reach out right away, while the guest who loved breakfast gets a nudge to share it on the portals. At MARA we work on review replies, so I see the difference: fewer surprises online and more happy reviews worth a personal answer.
What sets it apart is that it catches criticism before it reaches the review portals. Picture a guest who found the Wi-Fi patchy: the post-stay survey flags it, your team follows up while it can still be put right, and the guests who loved their stay get invited to share it publicly. At MARA we work with the reviews that come out of that, so we see how much a good survey loop shapes what ends up online.
What sets Smart Host apart is that its post-stay survey doesn’t stop at collecting feedback. Say a guest found breakfast disappointing: you hear it in the survey and can make it right before it reaches a review portal, while happy guests get invited to share their stay publicly. That’s where we at MARA pick up, so each of those reviews gets a personal reply.
What really sets Smart Host apart is that it’s built by people who understand hotels from the inside. Hendrik is a hotelier himself, and you feel that in every conversation: he knows the daily reality of a front office, the pressure on direct bookings and how little time teams have for marketing. That operational understanding shows up in the product too. Instead of a complex marketing tool that needs a dedicated team, Smart Host turns PMS data into guest profiles, automated campaigns and offers that a small hotel team can actually run in their day-to-day. On top of that, they think in outcomes, not features: revenue, loyalty, less OTA dependency. As a fellow hospitality tech company with a hotelier background, we at Sweeply really value working with a partner who speaks the same language as our customers.
Question:
Based on your experience with this product or service, if you could give one piece of advice to a hotelier considering this product or service, what would it be?
Answer:
Fill the guest profile from day one. Switch on the pre-arrival email and the post-stay survey in your first week, because the segmentation and the AI campaign suggestions only get sharp once they have real preferences and stay behaviour to work with. And lean on your personal success manager early. You won’t need IT for the setup, but a second pair of eyes on your first segments and newsletters saves you weeks of trial and error.
Showing all answers to: "Based on your experience with this product or service, if you could give one piece of advice to a hotelier considering this product or service, what would it be?"
Fill the guest profile from day one. Switch on the pre-arrival email and the post-stay survey in your first week, because the segmentation and the AI campaign suggestions only get sharp once they have real preferences and stay behaviour to work with. And lean on your personal success manager early. You won’t need IT for the setup, but a second pair of eyes on your first segments and newsletters saves you weeks of trial and error.
Set up your pre-arrival email and post-stay survey first, before you build any newsletters. Those two touchpoints fill the guest profile everything else depends on, and they show results fast: better-prepared arrivals and fewer complaints ending up online. Your personal success manager can help you get the questions right, so bring them in early.
Start with your segments and the pre-arrival email, then build campaigns on top. That’s where your team will feel the change in daily work first. And lean on your personal success manager in the first weeks. You don’t need IT to get going, so there’s no reason to wait for a big project kick-off.
Start with the pre-arrival email and your segments before you build big newsletter campaigns. Once the guest profiles are filling up with real requests and preferences, sit down with your success manager and set up the AI-suggested campaigns around holidays and school vacations. The reporting will show you quickly which ones bring in bookings.
Go into the demo knowing what you want to achieve. Smart Host is modular, so the more clearly you can say “we want more direct bookings”, “we want to fill our low season” or “we want guests to come back”, the better their team can set it up around your goals. Also make sure your PMS data is clean before you start. The guest profiles and campaigns are only as good as the data behind them, and a little preparation upfront means you’ll see results much faster.
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