Expert Marketing for Tour and Activity Providers

Fill more seats. Book them direct. Keep more of what guests pay.

BeaconPoint is the marketing agency for established tour and activity operators. We find the revenue you're already leaving behind in lost visibility, empty seats, underpriced bookings, and slow months, and we build the marketing system that goes and gets it.

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Month to month. No long-term contract, ever.

Where operators leave money

Most operators are closer to their next 20 percent of growth than they think.

The gap between a good year and a great one is rarely one big problem. It is usually four quiet ones running at the same time.

01

Empty seats

Every unsold seat on a departure that runs anyway is pure lost margin. The cost is already paid. The revenue just never arrives.

02

Underpriced bookings

Most operators set prices once and leave them. That means peak demand gets sold at the same rate as a slow Tuesday, and the difference is money left on the table.

03

The off-season

Three slow months can undo what the busy season built. Most operators plan for peak and improvise the rest of the year.

04

Commissions and lost guests

If OTAs bring you volume, every booking arrives with a commission attached and a guest you do not own. Fine for filling gaps. Expensive as a business model.

Some of these are costing you more than others. The point of a Revenue Opportunity Analysis is finding out which one is costing you most.

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Illustration of a marketing revenue system: trend chart, task checklist and bar charts

What we do differently

We start by finding the money you are already losing.

Most agencies start by selling you traffic. We start by looking at your numbers. Before we talk about ads or SEO, we run a revenue analysis on your capacity, your pricing, your booking flow, and your off-season, and we show you in dollars where the leaks are. Then we build the plan that closes them, and we run it for you every month. You get a marketing system tied to revenue, not a pile of activity tied to a report.

01

We run the revenue analysis

Capacity, pricing, booking flow, and off-season, priced out in dollars.

02

We build the plan that closes the leaks

Prioritized by what the fix is worth, not by what is easiest to sell.

03

We run it every month

Clear reporting, monthly optimization, and a point of view on what comes next.

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The numbers are the point.

Real client results, from Google Ads, Google Analytics and Search Console data.

142%

more bookings from Google Ads for Le Petit Navire

99%

more direct revenue for Nice Guy Tours, year to date

28%

more website revenue for Golden Boat Rentals, July to September

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The off-season

A tour business should not live and die by peak season.

The slow months are where most operators lose the year they worked all summer to build. We plan for them on purpose. In your off-season we shift the work toward the levers that keep revenue moving when demand is soft: conversion, retargeting past guests, capturing next-season bookings early, selling gift cards for the holidays, email campaigns that bring past guests back, and building the search and content that pays off when the crowd comes back. One retainer, adjusted to the season you are actually in.

Conversion Past-guest retargeting Early next-season bookings Search and content Gift card sales Email campaigns
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TourOptimizer

The revenue model behind your audit.

TourOptimizer is the forecasting and pricing model we use in house to run your Revenue Opportunity Analysis and pressure-test your revenue decisions. We are building a version tour operators will be able to use directly. It is in development now. For today, you get its output through us, in your audit and your monthly reporting.

Booking and revenue dashboards open on a desktop and laptop

Booking engines we support

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Resources

What we are learning in tour operator marketing.

See what your calendar is really worth.

Book your Revenue Opportunity Analysis and we will show you, in dollars, what empty seats, flat pricing, and the slow months are costing you right now, and what it would take to capture it.

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