01
Booking Pattern
Fixed daily and weekly departures published weeks ahead
For walking tour operators
Booking software for walking tours
Publish your weekly walk schedule, cap each departure by group size, and hand your guides a live manifest on their phone before they set off.
At a glance
How Walking Tours businesses operate
02
Capacity Type
Per-person places, usually 8 to 20 walkers per guide
03
Resources
Guides on foot; no vehicles or equipment to allocate
04
Weather Dependent
Partially — walks run in most weather but heavy rain thins numbers
05
Waivers
Rarely needed; a health note for longer or hillier routes
06
Checkin
Guide checks names off at the meeting point
07
Seasonality
Peaks spring to autumn; lighter winter timetable
08
Party Type
Solo travellers, couples and small friend groups
The challenges
What gets in the way
The operational friction we hear about most — and what Experiqo does about it.
01
The challenge
Meeting-point no-shows eat into small groups
When a walk only holds a dozen places, three no-shows is a quarter of your revenue gone. Automated reminders the evening before and the morning of the walk keep numbers firm.
02
The challenge
Guides arrive without knowing who booked
A printed sheet is out of date the moment someone books at breakfast. Your guides need the current list on their phone, updated to the minute they leave the office.
03
The challenge
Walk-up walkers turn up with cash
Plenty of people join on the spot at the meeting point. Taking that booking on a tablet keeps the manifest accurate instead of scribbling names on the back of a flyer.
04
The challenge
One popular route sells out while others sit empty
Without live capacity per departure you either oversell your best walk or leave your quieter routes looking dead. Per-slot limits and a waitlist balance the load.
05
The challenge
Reviews trickle in slowly
Walkers finish, disperse and forget. A follow-up email an hour after the walk ends, while it is fresh, turns a good experience into a public review.
06
The challenge
Rain forces a last-minute juggle
When a route is washed out you need to message everyone booked and offer another date without phoning down a list by hand.
The platform
Features built for Walking Tours
01
Embeddable booking widget
Add a booking widget to any page of your website with a single snippet, so guests can check dates and pay without ever leaving your site.
Learn more
02
Waitlists
Capture demand on sold-out departures and notify people the moment a place opens, so a cancellation becomes another sale.
Learn more
03
Availability rules
Set recurring schedules once and let Experiqo generate every departure, so your calendar fills itself instead of you building it by hand.
Learn more
04
Capacity control
Cap the number of places by date, time, guide, vehicle or equipment, so you sell exactly what you can deliver and never oversell.
Learn more
05
Manifests
View or print a complete guest list for every departure, with the details your team needs to run the trip, always up to date.
Learn more
06
Check-in
Check guests in from a phone or tablet, so your team knows who has arrived and who is still to come, without a printed list.
Learn more
07
Booking reminders
Automatic reminder emails go out a set number of days before departure, so guests turn up prepared and on time, and you see fewer no-shows.
Learn more
08
Review collection
Ask guests for a review automatically after their trip, with a rating gate and a delay you control, target the whole business or an individual guide, and sync approved reviews to Google, Trustpilot and TripAdvisor.
Learn more
A day with Experiqo
How Walking Tours runs on Experiqo
-
01
Step 1
Set the weekly walk schedule
Define each themed walk once — the Old Town route on Tuesdays and Saturdays, the riverside walk on Sundays — and let availability rules generate every departure for the season.
-
02
Step 2
A visitor books two places
A couple browsing your site picks Saturday at 11am, sees four places left, pays by card and gets an instant confirmation with the exact meeting point pinned.
-
03
Step 3
Reminders go out automatically
The evening before, everyone booked receives a reminder with the postcode, what to wear and how long the walk takes, cutting no-shows without you lifting a finger.
-
04
Step 4
The guide checks walkers in
At the meeting point the guide opens the manifest, ticks names off, and adds a walk-up pair who paid on the tablet — the count stays right all the way round.
-
05
Step 5
A review request follows
An hour after the walk ends each guest gets a short prompt asking how it went, feeding a steady stream of fresh reviews back to your listings.
One connected system
One connected system, from booking to check-in
Every part of a walking tours booking flows through one platform — no re-keying, no disconnected tools.
01 · Sell
Turn demand into paid bookings
Products
01
Availability
02
Bookings
03
02 · Operate
Keep guests and teams moving
Customers
04
Payments
05
Staff
06
03 · Understand
Use one live picture to grow
Resources
07
Communications
08
Reporting
09
No re-keying. No disconnected tools. A change in one workspace updates everywhere.
Related
Similar industries
FAQs
Questions from operators like you
Yes. Each walk is its own product with its own schedule, price and capacity, so your Tuesday history walk and your Sunday riverside stroll each generate their own departures independently.
Your guide takes the booking on their phone or tablet in seconds, collects card payment, and the walker is added to the same manifest as everyone who pre-booked.
Guides get their own portal showing only the walks assigned to them, with the manifest and check-in for each — no access to pricing, refunds or other guides' departures.
Cancel the departure and everyone booked can be messaged at once and offered another date, either to reschedule themselves or take a refund.
Yes, you can sell vouchers for a fixed amount or a named walk, and redeem them at checkout with the balance tracked automatically.
It does. Run open public departures with per-place capacity, and take private group bookings from the back office when a family or society wants a walk to themselves.