Many modern hotels have moved to headless CMS systems (like React or Vue.js). For these, inurl:/views/html will yield zero results because there are no physical HTML files. This trick works best for hotels built between 2010 and 2018.
When this query is executed, a researcher or malicious actor may find:
You cannot simply type the string into Google as-is and expect magic. You need to combine it with geographic modifiers.
Let’s walk through a hypothetical scenario.
User: A travel blogger wants to write about "Last minute beachfront rooms in Goa." inurl viewshtml hotel rooms
Action: The blogger types "inurl:views.html hotel rooms" Goa beach.
Result: The third result is a URL that looks like this: http://beachresortgoa.com/admin/views.html?roomid=12&date=2024-02-14
When clicked, the page is not the fancy marketing homepage. Instead, it is a plain HTML table showing exactly six rooms left for Valentine’s week. The blogger writes a story about "Secret inventory still available" and drives traffic to that direct link, bypassing OTA commissions for the resort.
Once you master "inurl:views.html hotel rooms", try these variations to uncover different layers of data: Many modern hotels have moved to headless CMS
Typical URLs you might see:
https://example-hotel.com/viewshtml/room-availability.php
https://booking.hotelgroup.net/viewshtml/hotel-rooms-list.html
https://admin.hotelsystem.com/viewshtml/rateplans/hotel_rooms.html
Scenario 1: Finding rooms in Paris
inurl:views/html "hotel rooms" Paris -booking.com -expedia
Note: The minus signs (-) remove annoying OTA results that sometimes leak into the index. Scenario 1: Finding rooms in Paris
Scenario 2: Looking for luxury suites
inurl:views/html "deluxe suite" New York
Scenario 3: Searching by property name
inurl:views/html "hotel rooms" "The Grand Budapest"