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TripAdvisor #14 → #3. Five months. One 22-room hotel

How David K. at a boutique Costa Rica hotel ranked into the top three of his destination — and got his Sundays back.

Industry: Hospitality

Property: 22-room boutique hotel

Country: Costa Rica

Tailwind products used: Reviews Management, Score, Threads, Customer Engagement, Mentions

Time on Tailwind: 5 months

Owner: David K.

The starting point

David K.'s 22-room boutique hotel was getting strong direct feedback from guests but a tepid online reputation. Booking.com sat at 8.4. TripAdvisor ranked him #14 in his area. Most reviews came in Spanish, English, German, and Portuguese — and David was the only one in the property who spoke all of them well enough to reply.

He spent every Sunday evening replying to TripAdvisor. He still missed reviews. Bookings flatlined.

David K.

Owner

I'd come back from a Saturday family lunch and there'd be eight new reviews waiting. I'd be replying until midnight. And I knew Booking.com would penalize me on ranking if I didn't keep up — but I had a hotel to run.

What they changed

Week 1
Connected TripAdvisor, Booking.com, Airbnb, Expedia, Google, Apple Maps. Set Tailwind to draft replies in the guest's original language.
Week 1–2
David approved the first 50 AI replies manually to calibrate tone. After that, he set 5-stars to auto-reply and 4-stars to draft-and-approve.
Week 3
Configured Orders Routing for 1- and 2-star reviews — housekeeping issues to housekeeping lead, F&B to F&B manager, anything else to David. Each routed review came with a 24-hour SLA.
Week 4
Enabled Threads for any review under 4 stars. The team learned to follow up privately by email and offer a comp where appropriate. Several guests updated their reviews after recovery.
Month 2
Customer Engagement turned on — post-checkout email at 48 hours, only one ask, multilingual.
Month 3
Mentions added to track travel bloggers and Costa Rica subreddits.

What happened

TripAdvisor rank #14→#3
in the area.
Booking.com score 8.4→9.1
Average response time 36 hours→2 hours
Recovery rate (1-stars updated to 4+) 0%→41%
ADR (average daily rate) +12%
over baseline (correlated with the ranking move).
David's Sunday evenings restored

What surprised them

David K.

Owner

I thought the language thing would be the hardest. It turned out to be the easiest. The AI replies in German felt more natural than my own — I always had to look up phrasing. Now we get compliments specifically for how thoughtful the replies are.

What they're doing next

Adding two more properties to Tailwind under the same workspace.

Trying Blog Generator for SEO articles about Costa Rica travel.

Tracking LLM Search Visibility — Costa Rica trip-planning prompts increasingly come from ChatGPT.

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TripAdvisor #14 → #3. Five months. One 22-room hotel

The starting point

What they changed

What happened

What surprised them

What they're doing next

How much does it cost?

FAQ

Add the rest when they earn their keep.

Other tools included in your subscription — all for one price

Reviews management

Tailwind Score

Threads

LLM Monitor

Orders analytics

Grow public rating

Online Mentions

SEO Generators

AI Assistant

Customer engagement

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