Blog resource library for tour operators and travel agents

When Is the Best Time to Upgrade Your Back Office Software?
Industry-specific back office software has quickly become the backbone of the modern economy, and you only have to look at banks and retail for evidence of this assertion. Now more than ever before, businesses use a range of back-office software to manage clients,...

Exit Strategy: Selling Your Travel Business
You can't run your travel business forever - there's always going to come a time when you'll need to sell and move on. While you'll certainly have your own reasons for selling, an exit strategy should always be at the top of your priority list before you hand over the...

Is Now the Right Time to Start a Travel Company?
If you have ever thought of starting your own travel company new research indicates now might be a good time with low barriers to entry and the strengthening travel market. People love getting on a plane and heading overseas, or even hopping around their own countries...

What Is the Biggest Risk to Growing Your Travel Business?
Einstein famously once said insanity is “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results”. While you may not think this quote applies to travel businesses, allow me to explain why it’s actually quite relevant when it comes to growing your...

How Much Time Can the Supplier Request Auto Confirmation Function Save You?
Tourwriter is designed to efficiently calculate pricing and generate publishing itineraries for tailor-made tour operators in minutes. Once setup the Tourwriter software saves literally thousands of labor hours for TourWriter clients every year. Every minute counts...

Is Your Database Management Really Best Practice?
If you're running a tour business, then chances are you have to store quite a lot of information on your computer systems. Every tour operator is juggling supplier rates, booking dates, client information, flight details, special meal requests and so much more. It's...

How Can You Compete with Travel Startups?
The tour operators I meet with often deal with a variety of challenges, but keeping up with competitors is one of the most difficult, and certainly the most demanding. In many cases, these competing tour operators are startups that are able to spend nearly all of...
Investing in Tourwriter Driven by Desire to Be More Efficient
Investing in change is important for the development of any business but is often a difficult step to take. This Tourwriter success story outlines how Viking Travel was able to optimise their processes and increase business with Tourwriter.

Tourwriter Client Wins ‘Best in World’ Travellermade Award for Luxury Travel
AHIPARA Luxury Travel has won the inaugural TravellerMade “best in the world” award for creating the “Best Adventure Designer” travel itineraries. Ahipara have used Tourwriter travel software to create luxury experiences for their clients for over 6 years. ...

Client Success Story – Pomegranate Luxury Travel and Tailor Made Holidays
Complex tailor made quotes can take 5 or more hours to prepare using word and excel. Tourwriter streamlines that process and allows tour operators to focus instead on driving their company forward. Take a look Pomegranate Travel’s success story and the part that Tourwriter has played in that.