Breakthrough Technology for Tour Operators

The new Web-Op/Explore The World Tours Reservation System provides a galaxy of new opportunities for tour providers and tour resellers. The key is its unique architecture: Instead of building each tour operator's site independently, we have centralized the data, and developed a system to allow it to be syndicated. The syndicated data can appear on the original operator's site, and also the sites of travel agents, other tour operators, and even individual affiliates. It's extra marketing exposure with no extra cost to you.

In addition, by combining the resources of many tour sellers and operators, Web-Op can deliver you a comprehensive reservation system for an inexpensive monthly fee, rather than a $100,000+ up-front development cost.

Tour Providers

Don't you want a system that puts all your tour operations in one place? With the Explore World Tours system, it's possible. Our system features an integrated dispatch tool, allowing you to build pickup lists for bus tours in a few clicks. In addition, facilities are provided for adding off-line bookings into the system, saving you time and hassle.

We've done the research for you. Many of the hard questions-- dividing the country into regions, setting up activity types, and preparing lists of major pickup points, have been answered already. You can focus your efforts on the tours themselves.

There's plenty of options to match your company's needs. Up to five, free-form pricing classes can be specified for each tour. Add-on services (transportation, private guides, etc.) can be priced either per-passenger or per-party. You can decide wether to request a passenger's name, age, weight, or pickup point on a per-tour basis. The system even supports several sessions per day of a tour, each with its own pickup schedule.

Web-Op built the system for self-service. You can put up detailed pickup schedules, and let the customer print their own voucher, rather than having to intensively manage each client from order to the day of tour. Fewer employees can handle more customers, saving money.

In addition, our innovative architecture provides a unique "selling reach" not available with anyone else. Your products-- your copy, your pricing, your booking rules-- can be distributed to other sites, allowing you to exploit their marketing efforts. The centralized checkout system ensures that your guidelines are followed, no matter who they buy from.

Finally, the system has been designed to handle the small tour operator's needs. With a secure, centralized, hosted checkout, you can give the professional experience visitors expect without the hassle of maintaining your own merchant processing system or secure website. Security is also built into the data syndication-tours won't be shown in search results unless the site has permission to show them, and bookings can only be processed from approved sellers.

Tour Sellers

Travel agents, hotel concierge services, and regional interest web sites have long dealt with the hassles of working with tour operators. There's no central system to route bookings, and individual policies and rules vary widely. With the Explore the World system, it's simple and consistent. All the complicated logic is handled on our back-end. All you need to add to your website is a simple form to start any booking.

Booking options go well beyond a simple form, however. The Explore the World system is scalable- from selling a single event on a single date with a one-button form, to a full-scale travel site with search tools and detailed tour information. The system distributes tour information through a Web Service API, allowing more sophisticated sites to be developed. Developers can tap the API for live inventory, access to tour details, search functionality, upsells, and pricing information.

With the API, you can even automatically manage your product line. An API-based site can automatically extend to show new tours relevant to your sales efforts. You save time and money on maintenance and may discover exciting new products to sell.

A complete PHP-based sample site is available for reference. It's search-engine-optimized, requires minimal server facilities, and is virtually self-maintaining once deployed.

The shared checkout system also provides support for two different checkout processes to fit your business style-- an easy-to-use multi-stage form, and an efficient single-page form.

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Please fill out a contact form or call us at 1 888 846 5728 for more information on increasing your travel sales performance and satisfaction.