Your TripAdvisor and Google rating IS your occupancy rate. ReplyBase helps hotel operators across South Dakota — from Sioux Falls and beyond — reply to every Google review automatically.
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Travelers read an average of 9 reviews before booking a hotel. OTAs reward properties that respond to reviews with higher search placements — and Google Maps does the same. Hotels with a 90%+ reply rate see a 12% boost in direct bookings, reducing dependency on costly OTA commissions.
The South Dakota Market
Tourism (Black Hills, Sturgis Motorcycle Rally), agriculture, banking (Sioux Falls — credit card industry), and healthcare. Sturgis alone draws nearly 500,000 visitors over 10 days each August.
Tourism × Hotels
South Dakota's tourism economy concentrates a significant share of hotels reviews around peak season. Those reviews are often written by visitors who may share their experience with friends or plan repeat trips. Hotel Operators in South Dakota who reply quickly during peak season have a stronger chance of leaving a positive lasting impression than those who don't engage.
The challenge
Your front desk has a million priorities — check-ins, check-outs, guest requests, and staff coordination. Following up with every post-stay reviewer falls to the bottom of the list. Most hotels respond to fewer than 40% of their reviews.
The solution
Both — but for different reasons. Responding to positive reviews encourages future guests to leave reviews (they see it's worth the effort). Responding to negatives demonstrates accountability and can flip the perception of potential guests reading along.
Each ReplyBase account covers one Google Business Profile. For groups with multiple properties, you can run a separate ReplyBase account per property today; native multi-property support is on the roadmap.
Black Hills-area businesses can see months of typical review volume in 10 days during Sturgis. Auto-reply during the rally is commonly used by busy operators — manual reply can't keep pace, and unresponded reviews from rally visitors sit at the top of profiles all year.
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Join hotel operators across South Dakota who use ReplyBase to respond to every review, rank higher in local search, and grow their customer base.
Get Started — $99/moStatistics and industry references on this page are approximations based on publicly available data, including U.S. Census 2024 population estimates and U.S. Small Business Administration 2024 advocacy data where cited. ReplyBase is a software service — outcomes depend on individual business circumstances. See our privacy policy for how user data is handled.