Making a healthy profit from your tour and activity business gives you the freedom to grow your business at your own pace and to make decisions and even mistakes from time to time without having to worry too much about the bottom line.
As a small tour operator or activity provider you have your work cut out for you. Like many small business owners you probably wear many hats and have to handle a lot of the marketing yourself. Here are five simple things that you can do to improve SEO for tour operators and activity providers like […]
One of the biggest challenges for small tourism operators is ensuring that they get paid in a timely manner. For many operators, cash at the door is a common payment method. But there are obvious downsides to being dependent on a cash only business. With the growing popularity of online bookings, taking payment in advance […]
Your online booking engine has to be secure. If you are currently requesting credit card information on a page that is NOT secure, you are in violation of your merchant agreement and could face severe penalties if you do not secure it. Let’s take a look at some simple precautions you can take to ensure your […]
There are many business verification and validation services that offer certified seal/mark programs that help to establish your online credibility. In some cases, these validation services also double as PCI compliance scan providers. In almost all cases, a secondary benefit of the programs is an increase in trust and credibility with customers that can help […]
As a business that accepts credit cards you stand the risk of having a charge back filed against your merchant account. A charge back is request made by a consumer to the credit card company claiming that they either did not receive the goods for which they paid or they requested a refund which you […]