Booking Software for Boat Tours and Groups
Sell tickets for scheduled departures and manage private tours, participants, and guides all from the same platform.
Not every boat tour is booked the same way
Individual tickets or a private group
For a scheduled departure, visitors purchase tickets for a specific time. A company, school, or tour group may prefer a private boat tour with a custom departure time, group size, and practical arrangements.
That calls for a different approach to follow-up. For scheduled departures, the main consideration is available seats. For private groups, language, boarding location, price, and any necessary guidance also play a role.
Eguide supports both booking methods from the same management interface.
The Daily Challenges in the Sightseeing Cruise Industry
Risk of Overpayments
Scattered emails and paper lists can quickly lead to too many passengers on board or, conversely, unnecessarily empty boats at the dock.
Endless Crew Scheduling
Manually calling guides to check their availability takes hours. Every change results in additional phone calls.
Bureaucratic red tape
Separate Excel spreadsheets for calculating wages per voyage and manual VAT invoicing take up too much valuable time each week.
From booking to departure
For scheduled and private boat tours
Use tickets for scheduled departures and a separate booking process for groups that reserve the boat exclusively for themselves.
Scheduled departures with ticket sales
For scheduled boat tours, you work with fixed departure times and a set number of available tickets.
Visitors choose a departure time and purchase their tickets online. Your team can see how many seats are still available for each time slot. Online payments are processed through Mollie.
Private boat tours with custom itineraries
For a private group, you'll need to specify the date, time, group size, language, and pickup location, among other details.
You can let visitors book directly or request a quote first. Your team will review private bookings before sending the final confirmation.
Multiple groups within a single reservation
A larger group can be divided into multiple groups within the same booking. For each group, you specify the number of participants, the language, and a separate guide.
When participants or groups change, Eguide recalculates how many guides are needed and what the applicable fees are.
Book online through your website
The online booking process is included as standard. You can link directly to a boat tour or activity from your existing website.
A website can also display listings, prices, and availability through the public API. The visitor then proceeds through the Eguide booking flow.
A fully integrated website is available as a separate service. The API is not a fully standalone checkout.
Discover how Eguide makes your boat tours easier
See how Eguide fits in with your scheduled cruises and private tours.
Frequently Asked Questions
Practical answers about tickets, private groups, and scheduling boat tours.
Yes. Scheduled departures are based on specific times and ticket capacity. Private tours work as group reservation with your own information and appointments.
This allows you to track both types of bookings from the same management interface.
Maintenance, berths, technical vessel data, and comprehensive resource planning for boats are not included in the current product offering.
Yes. If a boat tour requires a guide, you can assign a guide to a group.
Guides can manage their availability and accept or reject assignments. The planner decides who gets the assignment.
A comprehensive solution for QR scanning, access gates, or specialized check-in is currently in the pipeline. The strongest connection lies in online bookings, tickets, participants, groups, and any guide scheduling.
Yes. You can link directly to the included Eguide booking flow.
Through the API Your website can also display offers, prices, and availability before the visitor proceeds to Eguide. A fully integrated website is a separate service.