Planning the trip at home
Travellers book direct
They spotted your tour on a big platform, open your own site to see more, and book the same tour without the platform's fee.
A website for your tours. We build it. You just say yes.
Send us your tours, your best photos and what a day out with you is like. In about 3 days you get a link to your finished draft, free. Like it? It goes live. Don't like it? You walk away.
$299 a year once it's live. Hosting and 3 branded QR codes included.
- Check your draft on your phone, between tours
- Nothing goes live without your OK
Your draftReady in ~3 days
- Your tours
- Dates and prices
- What's included
- How to book
Cost of draft$0
You approve → it goes live
See it before you pay
One price. You only pay if you say yes.
- Free draftYour site, ready to look at in about 3 days
- Up to two rounds of changesTell us what to change, in plain words
- Your callSay yes and pay $299 a year, or say no and pay nothing
The draft is free. Billing starts only after you say yes.
After that, your site stays online and your QR codes keep working. Added a sunset tour for July? Put it on your site yourself from the app. A couple of families booking direct instead of through a platform cover it for the season.
One simple price
$299per year
Less than $25 a month
- We design, write and set up your tour company website
- A page for each tour: duration, price, what's included
- Tour dates and times people can book online
- Meeting points, what to bring and what to expect
- 3 branded QR codes for brochures, hotel desks and your dock
Every booking going through a platform's commission?
Travellers find you on the big platforms, then look you up before they book. Give them a reason to book direct.
- Commission on every booking Direct bookings on your site
- The same questions before every tour Answers on each tour page
- No time to build a site We build it
- Paying up front Draft is free
A page for each tour
Duration, price, group size and what's included, with real photos.
Dates people can book
Pick a tour time online; the booking lands in your inbox.
Where to meet
Meeting point, parking, what to bring and what to wear.
Private and group tours
Families, schools and companies ask with the date and group size.
In a tour operator's season
Where a tour company website actually helps
Rain cleared, the afternoon is free
A last-minute booking
A couple in town for the weekend scans the code at their hotel desk, sees seats left on the 3 pm tour and books from the lobby.
A company retreat
Groups book private tours
An event planner needs an activity for thirty people. Your private tours page shows group options, and the request with the date arrives that day.
Tours, dates and the day itself
Every tour, every date and everything guests need before they arrive
Travellers have usually seen you somewhere already: a booking platform, a hotel brochure, a friend's photos. Then they look you up. Your own site is where they decide whether the tour is worth it, and where a booking costs you nothing in commission.
Sell the experience, not the itinerary. A page for each tour with real photos, the duration, the group size, what's included and the moment people talk about afterwards, the whale surfacing beside the kayak, the view from the ridge. That's what makes someone pick your tour over the one below it.
Answer the practical questions on the page: where to meet and park, what to bring and wear, fitness level, age limits for kids, what happens if the weather turns. Guests who know what to expect arrive on time, ready and happier.
Bookings belong online. Guests pick a date and time and get a confirmation; you get the details by email. Groups, schools and companies use a separate request form with the date and headcount, so private tours don't get lost in your inbox.
Your QR codes, included
Put your website wherever travellers are planning
3 QR codes in your branding come with your site, ready to print. A phone camera is all anyone needs to open your page from one.
Hotel and visitor centre desksToday's tours and seats left, one scan away
Your dock or meeting pointWalk-ups book the next departure
Brochures and rack cardsEvery brochure leads to booking
Social bios and chatsIn your bio, and as a picture card in a chat
Compared
Where travellers find tours today
Each of these brings guests. None of them lets them book you direct, on your terms.
Big booking platforms
Good forReaching travellers worldwide.
Leaves outA commission on every booking, and the platform owns the guest.
Review sites
Good forBuilding trust with reviews.
Leaves outYour listing sits next to competitors and their ads.
Hotel and visitor centre brochures
Good forGuests already in town.
Leaves outA brochure can't show seats left or take a booking.
Good forBeautiful photos of the tour.
Leaves outNo dates, no prices, no booking.
Yours
Your own tour site
Tours, dates, practical details and direct bookings, under your company's name.
How it works
Four steps. You only do the first and the last.
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Tell us about your business
Your tours, dates and prices, what's included, and your best photos.
A few minutes -
We build your free draft
Written the way people search: "kayak tours Tofino", "whale watching tours". You get a link to open on your phone.
About 3 days -
You look, we adjust
Not quite right? Tell us what to change, the way you'd tell a friend, and we fix it.
Up to two rounds -
Say yes, or say no
Yes: you pay $299 a year and your site goes live. No: tell us why, and you pay nothing.
Your call
Before you say yes
What tour operators ask us
Can guests pay when they book?
Online payments through PayPal come with the Video Hub. If you already use a booking system like FareHarbor, the Book button on each tour can open it instead.
Can each tour have its own page?
Yes, with photos, duration, price, group size and what's included. Those pages are what people share.
Can we take private group requests?
Yes. A separate form asks for the date, the group size and the kind of group, and lands in your email.
Can the site explain what happens if the weather turns?
Yes, plainly on each tour page. It's one of the first things guests want to know before they book.
Can we show photos our guests took?
Yes, with their permission. Real guest photos sell the next tour better than any polished shot.
Can we show seasonal tours and close them off-season?
Yes. Switch a tour on or off yourself from the app when the season changes.
Is there something smaller than a full website?
Yes, the Digital Business Card: one page with your buttons, your photo and a QR code, $99 a year. Lots of tour operators use it first and upgrade later.
Will I show up when someone searches "tours near me"?
That depends on more than a website: your Google listing, your reviews and the other tour operators nearby all count. Our part is a site search engines read easily, with your services, tours and meeting points and contact details clearly laid out.
Are there setup fees or hidden costs?
No setup fee. The draft is free, and after you say yes it's $299 a year. The only thing you'd buy separately is your own domain name, like yourtours.ca.
See your tour website before you pay anything.
Send us a few details. Your free draft is ready in about 3 days.
- The draft is free
- Up to two rounds of changes
- $299 a year only if you say yes
1999–Now
Building websites since 1999, and still in business. Today it's websites, QR codes and screens for trades and local businesses, with one goal: make it easy for customers to find you and call. QRaway is run by Anthony Albit, founder & CEO. Read our timeline →