By Sagar Shankaran, Founder of CallSphere
Cape Verde resort and hotel operators lose reservations every night to unanswered calls and single-language front desks. See how a CallSphere AI agent captures every enquiry in the guest language, 24/7, and books it automatically.
Key takeaways
Picture the reception desk of a mid-size hotel in Santa Maria at eleven at night. The night porter is walking a late arrival to their room. The phone rings, once, twice, then drops to voicemail. On the other end was a family in Brussels finalising a week in Sal for the February school break, four rooms, full board. They do not leave a message. They open the next tab and book the resort down the beach that answered.
That scene repeats every night across the Sal and Boa Vista resort belt, the two islands that carry the bulk of Cape Verde's package and charter tourism. The problem is not that these resorts are badly run. It is that reception is a human desk with human limits, and international demand arrives in a flood of languages and time zones that no small front-of-house team can cover alone. Voicemail is not a safety net in hospitality; it is a leak.
Before fixing it, it helps to see the size of the leak in escudos.
| Enquiry type | Average value (CVE) | Close rate | Lost value per missed enquiry |
|---|---|---|---|
| Multi-night room booking | 95,000 | 34% | 32,300 |
| Full-board upgrade | 42,000 | 45% | 18,900 |
| Excursion & activity package | 24,000 | 48% | 11,520 |
| Spa & wellness reservation | 16,000 | 40% | 6,400 |
| Group / event enquiry | 260,000 | 20% | 52,000 |
| Airport transfer bundle | 9,000 | 55% | 4,950 |
Even a single missed group enquiry a week is enough to justify a whole year of an AI agent several times over.
Flights from the UK, Belgium, the Netherlands and Portugal cluster in evenings and overnight in Cape Verde's UTC-1 zone. The moment guests land or plan is exactly when a small night team is stretched thinnest.
Your callers arrive speaking English, French, Dutch, Italian, German and Portuguese. A CallSphere agent handles 57+ languages and switches automatically, so the front desk stops turning away guests it simply cannot converse with.
From December to April the phones never stop; in the shoulder months they slow right down. An AI agent takes unlimited simultaneous calls on a cruise day and quietly costs the same when it is quiet.
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Every reservation lost to voicemail that ends up on an online travel agent hands away commission. Capturing the direct call keeps the full margin on the island.
Service on the islands is personal. Letting an agent handle the phone frees reception to look after the guests standing in front of them.
Every enquiry comes back scored and summarised, so the reservations manager starts the day knowing which warm leads deserve a personal call.
CallSphere answers your calls and messages 24/7 with sub-second, natural responses built on the OpenAI Realtime platform, so guests hear a receptionist, not a menu. It checks your rules, quotes availability, books straight into your calendar system, and hands complex or VIP situations to a human with a full summary. Voice leads, chat is included, and both run from the number and WhatsApp you already advertise. Each conversation returns a summary, guest intent, sentiment and a hot, warm or cold score.
A Santa Maria beach resort lets the agent field overnight European enquiries, quote room availability in the caller's language, and confirm bookings before dawn.
A Boa Vista all-inclusive uses it to sell excursion and spa add-ons to guests who call after the activities desk has closed.
A boutique hotel in Sal Rei captures group and wedding enquiries, takes the party size and dates, and routes the hot ones straight to the events manager.
An aparthotel in Espargos answers repeat questions about airport pickup timing and check-in, freeing the desk during the midnight arrivals rush.
Most properties are live within about 24 hours, and a 7-day pilot lets you watch it work before committing.
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Tiers run from Lite at 50 dollars for simple question answering up to Growth at 499 dollars, the popular choice for a busy resort that needs booking, integrations and CRM, then Scale at 1,499 dollars for multi-property groups. Full detail is at https://callsphere.ai/pricing.
Put a Santa Maria resort on Growth at roughly 55,000 CVE a month. Recovering even six multi-night bookings at the 32,300 CVE captured-value figure is about 194,000 CVE against a 55,000 CVE cost, before you count the excursions and upgrades the agent sells on top.
No. Responses come in under a second and the agent speaks naturally in the guest's language, so most callers simply feel well looked after.
Yes. It integrates with Google Calendar, Outlook and Calendly, and connects to CRMs and custom booking systems on the higher tiers.
Guest data is regulated by Law 133/V/2001 under the Comissão Nacional de Proteção de Dados. CallSphere encrypts data in transit and at rest, gives you control over how long recordings and transcripts are kept, and never sells your guest information, so you keep clean control as the data controller.
You set the triggers. Complaints, VIPs and complex requests are transferred warmly to a human with the conversation summarised, so nothing is dropped.
Yes. It can quote and book any service you configure, which is why many resorts use it to lift add-on revenue after those desks close.
See it live at https://callsphere.ai/demo, launch a pilot at https://callsphere.ai/pilot, weigh the tiers at https://callsphere.ai/pricing, or talk to us at https://callsphere.ai/contact.
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Written by
Sagar Shankaran· Founder, CallSphere
LinkedInSagar Shankaran is the founder of CallSphere, where he builds production AI voice and chat agents deployed across healthcare, hospitality, real estate, and home services. He writes about agentic AI, LLM engineering, and shipping voice agents that handle real calls in production.
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