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Events, Tours & Travels · Small-group tour operator, Sydney, Australia
Five Time Zones, One Booking Engine: Rebuilding a Tour Operator's Digital Spine
Rebuilding the digital spine of a Sydney tour operator running journeys across Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific.
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The need
A Sydney-based tour operator running small-group journeys across Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific, a business founded on phones and PDF itineraries.
The post-pandemic travel boom brought demand they couldn't process manually: enquiries arriving at 2am from US and UK travellers, itineraries versioned by email, and no visibility of which departures were filling or stalling.
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The work
- Online Booking & Reservation Platform: real-time availability, deposits and multi-currency payments.
- Tour Operator Software: departure management, manifest building and supplier allocations.
- Travel Itinerary Builder: drag-and-drop day-by-day planning with branded client itineraries.
- Dynamic Pricing Engine: seasonal and load-based pricing with early-bird rules.
- Travel CRM: enquiry-to-booking pipeline, automated follow-ups and past-guest reactivation.
- Mobile Travel App: in-trip itineraries, documents and guide updates.
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The outcome
- 38% higher enquiry-to-booking conversion.
- 85% fewer manually processed bookings.
- +27% repeat and referral bookings.
- 2× departures per year, capacity unlocked.
Based on a client testimonial; details beyond the client's account have not been assumed.