Bókun is a premium connectivity partner with GetYourGuide (GYG), offering the most up-to-date features, best-in-class API performance, and other benefits for our travel professionals who sell tours and experiences on that platform.

Our partner guide explains:

At the end, we’ll briefly introduce you to Bókun and explain how to leverage our channel management solutions to support, streamline, and scale your operations.

How the Bókun & GetYourGuide Partnership Works

GetYourGuide is a popular online travel agency (OTA) that travellers use to research, plan, and book trips. The site boasts countless listings from travel businesses, such as tour and activity providers, attractions, and event management companies, so travellers can find things to do in new areas.

On average, GetYourGuide attracts 20+ million monthly website visitors. If you’re a tour or experience provider, it’s an ideal platform to promote your business and reach travellers.

Bókun is a booking and channel management solution that complements GetYourGuide. You can promote your businesses on GYG and manage back-office operations in Bókun.

We offer a top-performing API that allows our platform to integrate and communicate with GYG seamlessly, earning us our advanced connectivity partnership.

Syncing platforms is simple:

  • In Bókun, you’ll navigate to the ‘Sales tools’ tab. Here, you’ll see the various OTAs our system natively integrates with.
  • Next, you’ll select GetYourGuide from the list of OTA options.
  • Last, you’ll sign into your GetYourGuide.com account through Bókun’s platform.

Then, the platforms are linked!

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Now, new bookings from GetYourGuide will feed into your Bókun booking calendar.

This calendar consolidates bookings from all online sales channels (you can also add offline reservations) to streamline and automate availability management. As new bookings roll in, Bókun automatically updates availability across all connected calendars.

The advanced partnership and API ensure the platforms sync in real-time, keeping calendars updated to prevent double bookings and other blunders.

Read more: How to Manage GetYourGuide Bookings | Bókun Partners

Benefits of the Bókun & GetYourGuide Partnership

GetYourGuide requires suppliers to connect a booking or ticketing platform because it enables them to provide a better customer experience. GetYourGuide wants to recommend the most reliable, high-quality businesses and experiences to its users.

These software solutions:

  • Prevent overbookings or cases where suppliers have to reschedule or cancel customers.
  • Offer mobile tickets and fast check-in features to simplify day-of arrivals.
  • Provide portals where customers can manage and modify reservations.

Bókun regularly engages with GetYourGuide to ensure great API performance and a smoother, error-free experience when using the platforms in tandem.

The key benefit of the Bókun and GetYourGuide partnership is the seamless, real-time integration, which prevents lag or downtime in system communications.

Bókun automates booking and availability management, allowing you to spend less time on administrative tasks and more on value-adding activities, like exploring partnership opportunities or testing new travel experiences to determine if they’re worth adding to your permanent offerings.

Getting Started with Bókun & GetYourGuide

If you aren’t already selling tours and travel experiences on GetYourGuide, you can learn how to become a GYG supplier here. (It’s free, and enrolment only requires a few steps.)

There are two options to get started with Bókun:

  • All-in-one tour operator software with a full feature set to manage all areas of operations.
  • Bókun Channel Manager: This solution connects your existing reservation system to online sales channels like GetYourGuide, acting as an intermediary to centralise bookings and update availability. You also gain access to the full Bókun partner Marketplace.

Bókun Tour Operator Software

Bókun is one of the most comprehensive and cost-effective tour operator software available. Our platform’s functionality supports all aspects of tour guide operations — not only booking and availability management; it also includes website builders, product and resource management, staff scheduling, customer experience management, revenue reporting, and more.

Our array of features can support tour operators at all growth stages, and we offer straightforward pricing — we provide all core features in our START plan at $49/month — so you can start your journey cost effectively.

We also offer PLUS and PREMIUM packages for larger teams and enterprises with more specialised needs to support scalability.

What sets us apart from competitors is our low booking fees — 1.5% in the START plan.

While most competitors charge 3–6% for handling online bookings, we understand that OTAs are a crucial sales channel for tour operators looking to grow their business. That’s why we keep our fees low, allowing you to avoid high operational costs. Additionally, we waive Bókun booking fees on Viator reservations for users selling on that channel.

We offer a 14-day free trial (no CC required) to explore our platform risk-free. During the trial period, you can browse the features and Marketplace, build products, and manage offline bookings. Then, you can upgrade to the START plan for full platform and Marketplace access.

Our feature set includes:

  • Website builders for teams to establish a digital presence and sell tours online.
  • Online booking engine widgets to enable direct website bookings.
  • Booking and availability management to centralise reservations in Bókun’s user-friendly calendar.
  • Integrations with Apple Pay, Google Pay, Stripe, PayPal, Klarna, Raypd, Worldpay, and more, providing customers with various online payment options at checkout.
  • OTA partnerships and connections to sell tours and activities on popular travel experience sites.
  • Bókun Marketplace with 27K+ travel partners (including travel agents, destination management companies, hotels, resorts, rental providers, attractions, universities, and other tour and experience creators) to connect with resellers and suppliers, expanding your network and generating passive income. You can also create travel or tour packages with partners to diversify your product line and offer more enticing travel experiences.
  • Product management to design tour listings, create tour packages, offer extras to enhance experiences, and set pricing rules. Bonus: As a Tripadvisor brand, Bókun also lets you connect with Tripadvisor to feed traveller reviews to your website listings.
  • Resource management to create allocation rules and optimise resource usage, ensuring all moving parts run smoothly by overseeing supplies and staff.
  • CRM to store customer information and booking history, allowing you to review data for retargeting campaigns or product adjustments.
  • Automated communications to send travellers booking confirmations, mobile tickets, reminders, follow-ups, and other marketing emails. A gallery of templates is available to customise and schedule upsells, abandoned cart emails, review or referral requests, and more.
  • Customer portals where travellers can view or modify reservations at their convenience, with your booking calendar automatically updated to reflect changes (and confirmation emails sent).
  • Reporting dashboard to measure bookings, revenue, sales channel performance, and more. Customisable reports allow you to track your most successful products, sales channels, and times of year, helping make data-driven growth decisions.
  • Mobile apps (iOS and Android) to access the Bókun booking calendar and ticket scanning tools while out in the field.
  • Bókun app store, where you can enhance core features with add-ons, like advanced reporting tools or a tip management module.

You can also watch a quick overview of Bókun and our partner Marketplace below:

Bókun Channel Manager

This solution is best for teams with an existing booking system that want to expand their distribution network. You can connect Bókun to the booking system you currently use, then explore our Sales tools tab and Marketplace to sell tours on new channels.

You can sell on GetYourGuide and other OTAs, but you can also establish partnerships to attract new customers or generate passive revenue streams.

Bókun will feed new bookings from all OTAs and partners back to your existing calendar. Then, it references that calendar to update availability across connected sales channels.

Schedule a demo to learn more about Bókun’s channel management module.

You can read more about Bókun’s booking management solutions in our guides below: