Features

Tour Booking Website Features

Everything a tour operator needs to help travellers decide, plan and book — content types built for travel, tour pages that sell, a quiz, recommendations, an itinerary generator, a trip planner and maps.

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In short

A tour booking website from tourbookingpro.com runs on WordPress with the Tour Booking Pro plugin: five travel content types and five taxonomies, modern single pages for tours and places with a gallery, sticky booking panel and map, a travel-personality quiz, rule-based recommendations with reasons, a day-by-day itinerary generator, a drag-and-drop trip planner with budget and packing list, Leaflet maps with no API key, saved and offline trips, sixteen shortcodes with Elementor widgets and a rate-limited REST API.

What ships with every site

Everything a Tour Operator’s Website Needs

Every tourbookingpro.com website runs on WordPress with our trip-planning plugin — content types built for travel, pages that sell, and planning tools travellers actually use.

Content you manage

Tours, places and destination guides in WordPress

Everything lives in the WordPress editor your team already knows — with fields built for travel, not bolted on.

  • Five content types: destinations (nested country → region → city → area), activities, restaurants, properties and tours
  • Fields for prices, durations, difficulty, guests, amenities, coordinates, booking links and galleries
  • Five taxonomies: activity categories, cuisines, property types, amenities and travel tags
  • Destination guides with a 12-month seasonal calendar, travel tips, safety and transport notes
  • Emergency contacts that child destinations inherit from their parent
  • One-click demo content: 36 clearly labelled Sri Lanka examples, removable in one click
Pages that sell

Modern single pages for every tour and place

Activity, restaurant, property and tour pages designed to answer every question and keep the booking button in view.

  • Photo gallery with lightbox and a sticky price and booking panel
  • What’s included, opening hours, map and related places
  • Mobile action bar for one-tap booking on phones
  • “Add to my trip” on every place, with a day picker
  • Card grids for every content type via shortcodes, plus theme-overridable templates
  • One-click starter pages that create the main pages and link them in settings
Helping visitors decide

A quiz and recommendations that explain themselves

Travellers who don’t know what they want get guided to your tours — with a reason they can read.

  • Travel personality quiz: six questions, seven personalities, explained results — works without JavaScript
  • Recommendation engine: rule-based weighted scoring across interests, travellers, budget, destination and pace
  • A plain-language reason on every suggestion. No AI involved
  • Recommendation Rules screen: build IF/THEN scoring rules without code, with a preview of every point
  • Build my trip: a step-by-step planner that returns a ranked shortlist
  • Surprise me: picks a destination from your own content
Planning a trip

An itinerary generator and a real trip canvas

Day-by-day plans travellers can actually follow — and edit — built from your own tours and places.

  • Itinerary generator that respects opening hours, pace and maximum activities per day
  • Trips split sensibly across towns
  • Trip canvas: drag and drop by mouse, touch or keyboard, editable times and costs, undo
  • Swap for similar, cheaper, indoor or shorter alternatives, or add your own plans
  • Budget: planned costs plus clearly labelled estimates against the traveller’s budget
  • Packing list generated from season, activities, trip length and travellers — with a reason on each item
Maps and distance

Maps with no API key, account or tracking

Leaflet is bundled in the plugin, so maps cost nothing to run and load no third-party scripts.

  • Leaflet bundled: no API key, no account, no third-party script
  • Maps on destination and item pages, a trip map and a Map tab in the planner
  • Explore nearby: places sorted by distance
  • “I have 1 hour / 2 hours / half a day” filter
  • A visitor’s location never leaves their browser
  • Maps can be switched off entirely
Saving and sharing

Trips travellers keep, print and take offline

Plans that follow the traveller from the sofa to the airport — and bring them back to book.

  • Saved trips for logged-in visitors, with a My Trips page
  • Guest trips that carry over on request when they sign up
  • Offline copy: the whole trip as one self-contained HTML file
  • Print view
  • Calendar (.ics) export
For owners & developers

Settings, shortcodes, Elementor and a REST API

Configurable without code, extensible with it — and built to stay fast.

  • Sixteen shortcodes, plus an Elementor widget for each
  • Settings for currency, planner defaults, scoring weights, maps, trips and privacy
  • REST API: read-only content, stateless planning endpoints and authenticated saved-trip routes, all rate limited
  • Caching with immediate invalidation; about a third fewer queries on the heaviest endpoints
  • Translation-ready (1,139 strings), overridable templates, filters and actions throughout
  • Clean uninstall that removes nothing unless you opt in
Local SEO

Built to be found in every destination you serve

Destination guides, tour pages and structured data help your site match searches like “Santorini boat tours” — and the questions people ask AI assistants.

  • Destination and tour pages built around real searches
  • Structured data for your business, pages and FAQs
  • Core Web Vitals-friendly, mobile-first templates
  • Answer-first summaries and llms.txt for AI search

Pages that sell

Tour Pages Built to Take the Booking

Every activity, restaurant, property and tour gets a modern single page that answers the questions travellers actually ask — and keeps the price and booking button in view the whole time.

  • Photo gallery with lightbox
  • Sticky price and booking panel
  • What’s included and opening hours
  • Map and related places
  • Mobile action bar for one-tap booking
  • “Add to my trip” with a day picker

Every feature, in detail →

For your travellers

They Plan the Trip on Your Site — Then Book It There

  • Take the quiz

    Six questions, seven travel personalities and an explained result — then recommendations with a plain-language reason for each. No AI, no guesswork.

  • Build my trip

    A step-by-step planner returns a ranked shortlist, and the itinerary generator turns it into day-by-day plans that respect opening hours and pace.

  • Edit, map and take it along

    Drag and drop, swap, re-time and undo on the trip canvas, see it on a map, then save, print, export to a calendar or download it for offline use.

See the trip planner in detail →

What we build

Concrete Deliverables, Not Vague Web Design

Every engagement produces a working tour booking website with the planner switched on — not a brochure site with an “enquire now” form.

01

New tour booking websites

Full WordPress builds for operators going online properly for the first time, or replacing a site that can’t help travellers plan.

02

Tours, activities & places entered

Your tours, activities, restaurants and properties set up with prices, durations, difficulty, guest limits, coordinates, galleries and booking links.

03

Destination guides

Nested destinations with seasonal calendars, travel tips, safety and transport notes and emergency contacts — written with you, for your market.

04

Planner & recommendations tuned

Quiz, scoring weights, IF/THEN recommendation rules, pace and planner defaults configured around the trips you actually sell.

05

Booking & payments

Every tour linked to your existing booking system — or online payment and deposits through WooCommerce on Growth and Custom.

06

Local SEO & training

Destination and tour pages built around real searches, structured data, a submitted sitemap — and your team confident editing everything.

Why a planning site

A “Book Now” Button Isn’t a Travel Website

Undecided travellers leave

Most visitors don’t know which tour they want yet. If your site can’t help them decide, a marketplace will — and it will take a commission for the favour.

Bad plans become bad reviews

A museum that’s closed, two long day trips back to back, a boat trip in a storm — itineraries that ignore opening hours and pace cost you stars.

Generic themes don’t know travel

Nested destinations, seasons, durations, difficulty, guest limits and what’s included need to be built in, not bolted on to a blog template.

Get your tour booking website live in 7–10 days!

Tell us about your tours and destinations and we’ll put together a free, no-obligation quote.