Eduard Ruppel    

Founder & Managing Director, Leppur Marketing

I work at the intersection of hospitality, trust, and modern discovery. I help boutique hotels and F&B lifestyle brands become visible in the places where high-intent decisions are now made.

Hospitality Before Marketing

I lead Leppur Marketing

with a background shaped inside hotels, not marketing agencies. For more than two decades, I worked in senior hospitality leadership roles across luxury and boutique properties in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.

My experience spans hotel operations, food & beverage leadership, and on-property management at properties like Aman, Kurumba, and Radisson. These were roles where trust is built face-to-face and reputations are earned daily. That operational grounding defines how I think about visibility today, not as traffic or tactics, but as discovery, shaped by how real guests search, decide, and commit.

My experience spans hotel operations, food & beverage leadership, and on-property management at properties like Aman, Kurumba, and Radisson. These were roles where trust is built face-to-face and reputations are earned daily. That operational grounding defines how I think about visibility today: not as traffic or tactics, but as discovery, shaped by how real customers search, decide, and commit.

The Shift in Discovery

Hospitality is global, but discovery is always local. Across my time in Berlin, Beijing, and the Maldives, I saw a consistent pattern: exceptional properties were often reduced to thin digital listings, losing visibility to louder but less distinctive alternatives.

The same is true for standout F&B and lifestyle venues. Quality concepts get buried beneath paid ads and platform noise, invisible to guests who would genuinely value the experience.

Today, discovery is fragmented. It is no longer just about who optimizes best. It is about who appears most credible across local environments, platform ecosystems, and AI-driven systems.

Why   
Leppur Marketing Exists

Leppur Marketing was built to bridge the gap between real-world excellence and digital legibility. Boutique hotels and F&B lifestyle brands don’t win on volume or budgets. They win on place, story, and trust.

We engineer visibility systems that ensure your brand is not just found, but recommended — translating your operational excellence into a digital presence that feels consistent, credible, and deserved.

The People Behind Leppur   

I work with a focused network of specialists across SEO, content, technical optimization, local search, and digital strategy. Together, we bring the right expertise to each project – with the same focus on making exceptional hospitality and F&B lifestyle brands more visible where people are searching, discovering, and deciding.

Amit Kumar

Amit Kumar

SEO Growth Consultant

being rajbir

Being Rajbhir

Local, Ecomm SEO Expert & Technical SEO

Knika Gupta

Kanika Gupta

CCE & Content Strategist

palwinder_singh

Palwinder Singh

Project Manager

Eduard Ruppel Leppur Marketing Founder

Eduard Ruppel

Founder & Managing Director

Featured Conversations

I am occasionally invited to share an operator’s perspective on the evolution of discovery, search, and the impact of AI on boutique hospitality and F&B brands.