An innovative experiences booking platform connecting travelers with locally curated tours and activities. As a Tourbase owner you’ll get your own travel experience website & build partnerships with local tour operators to offer adventure tours, sightseeing, culinary experiences and more.
Powered by our proprietary technology that automates typical travel agent tasks, your digital business allows you to earn 20-30% of all bookings without lifting a finger.
Many travelers are tired of booking generic experiences on Expedia, Priceline or Tripadvisor. Instead, they want local insights and the opportunity to find and book the very best experiences. You get to own and operate this online booking experience using the same powerful technology that the industry leaders use, but giving them a truly local perspective and set of curated activities.
Established: 2021
First Unit Franchised: 2021
Franchised Units: 3
Company Owned Units: 11
States Registered In: NA
Canada Franchises: Yes
International Franchises: Yes (Asia, Africa, Australia, Europe, South America)
Cash Investment: $72,300 to $119,800
Total Investment: $72,300 to $119,800
Minimum Net Worth: $300,000
Single Unit Franchise Fee: $20,000
Franchise Fee for Each Additional Unit: $20,000
Royalty: 3%
Ad Fees: Local: 0
Other Fees: $200 Monthly Information Systems Fee
Average Number of Employees: 1 to start, 5-8 at maturity
Item 19: Yes
Visa Candidates: Yes
Passive Ownership: No
Semi-Passive Ownership: Yes
Specify: The owner can choose to have a number of the weekly work streams handled by Tourbase for a small service fee. For example, they can outsource the handling of creating and maintaining paid-ads, blog content creation or video creation. Additionally, they can choose to directly manage their team of reservation agent(s) or have those agents managed by Tourbase corporate.
This would allow an owner to contribute as little as 10-15 hours per week vs. a typical 30-40 hours per week as a full-time owner.
Home-Based: Yes
B2B: No
Master Franchise Opportunities: No
Veteran Discount: No
Financial Assistance Provided: No
Site Selection Assistance: No
Lease Negotiation Assistance: No
Recruiting Assistance: Yes
Specify: Support and training around best practices, job-posting/listing and interview support.
Cooperative Advertising: Yes
Specify: Tourbase corporate can help run content marketing campaigns, support in video creation and assistance for local and national PPC campaigns.
Training:
We’ve developed a proprietary learning portal that allows franchisees to work through bite-sized training modules across all disciplines of running a business.
From marketing strategy to our tech to leadership, our playbook is extensive and available in hard copy and an interactive online learning platform with approximately 80 hours of training.
More importantly, we offer 1-hour weekly sessions with one of our two co-founders to drive key growth initiatives forward and help round out any gaps the franchisee may have in their skill sets and capabilities.
Partners – Building new relationships and onboarding tour operators in your region, so that you can resell their tours and activities on your site.
Doing Tours – Trying out local tours and activities so that you can showcase the best ones on your website.
Content Creation – Writing/Reviewing blog content to drive organic SEO traffic to your site. Creating short videos about the tours on your website.
Customer Service – Handling customer service calls or reaching out to hot leads to see if you can close new bookings. Often a franchisee might do this themselves in the first 6 months and then make their first hire, a reservation lead, to take this over.
Meeting with local hotels, concierges or property managers to expand your sales channels and commission-based referral network.
IDEAL CANDIDATE
An ideal candidate is someone that is not shy about getting in front of a camera to create content. They must be ambitious and willing to roll up their sleeves and work hard in the early days. Ideally, they will have some experience in marketing, writing or the travel and hospitality industry. They need to have a deep knowledge of their territory so they can truly curate the very best things to do in the area for travelers.
They must be a people person that can build trust with tour operators they wish to bring onto their platform. Digital marketing skills are definitely a plus, but not a requirement as they can be taught.
We want people with a learners mind and a willingness to be flexible as they work in a rapidly changing industry (tours and activities) with rapidly changing marketing techniques.Contact: Travis Vaughan
Email: [email protected]
Telephone: 406-407-4995
Mobile/SMS: 406-407-4995
Corporate Address: 643 Denver St, Ste 100, Whitefish, MT, 59937
Corporate Website: http://www.tourbase.com/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j32QHqviMXI
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tourbase
UNITED STATES REFERRAL FEES:
Single Unit Referral Fee: $20,000
Multiple Unit Referral Fee: $20,000
Resale Unit Referral Fee: $20,000
OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES REFERRAL FEES:
Single Unit Referral Fee: $15,000
Multiple Unit Referral Fee: $15,000
Resale Unit Referral Fee: $15,000