Tourwriter has launched in South Africa.
Meet the only operating platform that makes beautiful itineraries as well as managing complex pricing and providing the only certified Xero integration in travel design.
African travel is booming, and it is the most complex travel in the world to sell.
A single trip runs 10 to 14 days across two or three countries: safari camps, bush flights, transfers and permits. Travellers arrive already decided and expect an instant, flawless answer. The operators who win turn that around without drowning in admin.
Stop building the same trip 3x.
Chasing rates across inboxes and teammates, and trying to figure out how your margin vanished between the proposal and the final invoice? Three systems that don't talk to each other and a spreadsheet holding the whole thing together?
If that sounds like your back office, Tourwriter is for you.
Our team would love
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01 BUILD
30-minute proposals
Intuitive drag-and-drop itinerary builder. Build, price and send a multi-day FIT itinerary in under half an hour.
02 RESERVE
2-click bulk reservations
Send to all suppliers at once with automated price calculations and full margin visibility on every quote.
03 INVOICE
Xero integrated
Quotes, invoices and payments flow end-to-end. No double entry. Accounting that actually matches your itinerary.
An integrated system is a future-proofed system.
Tourwriter connects to the tools you already run: accounting, payments, reporting and itinerary apps. Your data flows in one place instead of living in ten, and more integrations ship through the year.
Live today with Xero and Stripe, QuickBooks coming soon. Explore the Xero integration and the Vamoos integration.
Trusted by tour operators across six continents.
From boutique safari specialists to multi-country FIT operators — Tourwriter is built by people who've spent two decades in this industry. We're now bringing that platform, with native Xero integration, to South African DMCs.
Operators do more with the same team.
140 to 500 tours a year
MV Luxury Travel grew output on the same lean team, with no extra headcount.
+40% itineraries in 90 days
Authentic Morocco built 40% more itineraries in their first 90 days on Tourwriter.
6 itineraries a day, per consultant
Huellas has built six a day since 2019, with zero pricing mistakes in four years.
A member of the African Travel & Tourism Association
We joined ATTA to build alongside Africa's tour operators and DMCs. Watch our ATTA webinar on running your travel or safari business from a single platform.
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Frequently asked questions.
Can we offer itineraries in other languages?
Yes. For every supplier and product you can store multiple descriptions, for example, one in English and one in Spanish, so the same trip goes out in the language your traveller reads.
How do our supplier rates get into Tourwriter?
We load your data in two stages. First your suppliers, products, and options come in, which is the structure everything else hangs from. Then your rates are imported against those products using a simple sheet. Once they are in, you can export them, update them for the next season, and import them straight back, so the yearly rate refresh stops being a manual slog.
Can Tourwriter read rates straight from a supplier PDF?
This is a new feature we are working on. Supplier rates arrive in every shape imaginable, from tidy spreadsheets to dense PDFs in another language, and we are building AI that turns that raw material into something you can import. For now the route is quick and clear even when it is manual, and your onboarding specialist walks you through it.
Can we bring our data across from another system?
Yes, and how smoothly it goes comes down to the state of your current data. Most systems let you export suppliers and rates as a spreadsheet, and from there we reshape that file into something Tourwriter can import. We always suggest setting aside a day or two to tidy the data first. A move like this is a rare chance to start clean rather than carry old clutter across.
Do we have to use Xero?
No. Tourwriter is the only certified Xero integration in travel design, so if you use Xero the two stay in step and your numbers reconcile without rekeying. If you do not use Xero, you can manage invoices, payments, and supplier bills inside Tourwriter instead. Nothing is locked behind the integration.
When a guest books a year ahead, when does the income show in Xero?
Raising an invoice in Tourwriter creates the matching invoice in Xero on the invoice date. How that income is then recognised across months is set by your Xero configuration and your accounting policy rather than by Tourwriter. Tell us how you need it to work and we will help you get it set up.
How quickly can we build an itinerary?
Once your supplier database is in place, a custom itinerary takes under thirty minutes, and two clicks send booking requests to every supplier on the trip. After moving to Tourwriter, Authentic Morocco built forty per cent more itineraries in ninety days with the same team.