Blog resource library for tour operators and travel agents
Why using excel may be harming your tour operator business
The Microsoft Office suite is currently used by over 1.2 billion people. It touches almost every industry in the world, and the travel industry is no exception. When things start to get busy, and you inevitably start to expand your operations is when using it for you back office processes can cause growing pains.
The Art of Travel
Specialists in crafting inspirational Japanese travel itineraries with a particular focus on art and authentic cultural experiences, The Art of Travel are deserved recipients of recognition from Pure Life Experiences.
Create quotes that sell more travel
Quotes allow a prospective buyer to see a breakdown of costs before they purchase your products or services – pretty simple, right? Perhaps not…
At Tourwriter we’ve seen thousands of tour operator quotes: the good, the bad and the ugly! There is a big difference between a quote that just ‘does the job’ and one that sells more business, so we’ve put together what we’ve learnt over the years into this article so you too can create beautiful quotes that sell more!
Understanding travel industry fragmentation
‘Fragmentation’ – Is it just another business buzzword… Or is it something that we in the travel industry should be paying attention to? At Tourwriter we wanted to explore this concept further to better understand what Fragmentation is, how it is affecting the travel industry, and provide you with some ways you can prepare your business for the industry’s changing landscape.
See Italy Travel
See Italy Travel built their tour operator business around their Italian roots. Their extensive network allowed them to supply tailor-made tours directly to other agencies for over 5 years. Read about their move to Tourwriter, after deciding to transition from Excel.
Your Safari
Your Safari create tailor-made Safari tours through Namibia with a special focus on Photography. Since using Tourwriter, Your Safari have had more time and resources available to implement new marketing activities.
How much should you spend on your travel software?
We’ve put together the following guide to help get you through the foggy early stages of looking for tour operator software. From understanding what you’re investing in, through to calculating how much you should be spending, you’ll be an expert in no time!
Bike It Now!
Bike It Now create bike tours through the pristine South Island of New Zealand. Using Tourwriter for over 4 years has allowed this popular tour operator to manage their inventory and provide their travelers with extremely detailed, comprehensive itineraries.
7 reasons why you should invest in travel software that has business reporting functionality
With the announcement that 4 brand new reports have been added to the Tourwriter suite of reports, we thought it was about time we talked about why we think reports rock!
Best practice tips to get the most out of your CRM
It certainly is CRM season at Tourwriter! We’re hot off the back of our latest product update, where we added tonnes of new features designed to give Tour Operators more flexibility – all the tech excitement got us thinking, using Customer Relationship Management software in your Tour Operator business shouldn’t be this confusing!