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The cheapest revenue available to a tour operator right now is the visitor already on the website.

If your best operations person walked out tomorrow, would your business still know how to run a tour? This session covers PaxFlow, an operations platform for tour and activity companies focused on everything that happens after a booking: staffing, vehicles, pickups, guest info, and day-of disruptions. That gap matters because…

Tony Carne of CollabsMap walks operators through turning Instagram and TikTok search into a trackable booking channel with travel creators.

Tour operators ask about OTAs and direct bookings more than any other subject, and most keep paying the commission anyway.

Jess Ary, product manager and designer at Flybook, walks through how operators use booking and operations software to create small, personal touches without adding staff time, from returning-guest recognition to a four-question tech stack audit.

Ray Bretzloff of BugMe.travel joins Pete Syme to lay out a collaborative alternative to tourism discovery: a non-gatekeeping map and a flat 20% road trip pass that keeps value in the local community.

Hana Robinson of Drop Bear Adventures joined Tourpreneur to walk through the five forces reshaping tour operators in 2026 and the specific tools she built with Dazhboards to automate repetitive tasks, consolidate guest communications, and reach over 90% direct booking revenue.

Lucas Davies and Alejandro Velásquez explain how to build a live virtual tour revenue stream alongside your in-person operations. Alejandro has been running weekly virtual tours for US public libraries since COVID, and it’s now his primary income.

Chris Torres, Tourism Marketing Agency, opens with a truth most tour operators feel but rarely state: your descriptions answer the wrong question. They explain what happens. They don’t explain what it means.

One operator Icare Duplessy worked with went from $22,000 a year to $250,000 a month within six weeks of activating a B2B partnership strategy. The revenue did not come from better SEO, new ads, or a rebuilt website. It came from identifying who was already serving their ideal travelers and…