Unpack a website that books tours.
Site in a Suitcase is a complete WordPress website, built around your tours and wired into your booking platform. You answer a guided questionnaire. I build it, write it, and launch it. You own the whole thing.
Founding rate: $499 $1,497 · complete build, one price
Viator takes 25% of every booking. Your website takes nothing.
Run the numbers on last season. If you did $400K in bookings and a third came through Viator or GetYourGuide at a 25% commission, you handed the OTAs about $33,000. In one year. For guests who searched for tours in your town and would have booked you directly, if your website had shown up and worked on their phone.
Your website is the only booking channel that never takes a cut. It just has to be good enough to do the job. That is the whole idea behind Site in a Suitcase.
The back-of-the-napkin math
- Annual bookings
- $400,000
- Share through OTAs
- 33%
- Average commission
- 25%
- Paid to OTAs every year
- ~$33,000
- This website, once
- $499
Three steps. About two hours of your time.
Pack
Answer a guided questionnaire about your tours, your guests, your photos, and your booking setup. Finish it over one big coffee, or save and come back whenever.
Build
I build your site on a structure proven for tour businesses. Your copy is drafted from your own answers, and you review every word. Your FareHarbor booking flow gets wired in and tested on real phones.
Unpack
Your site goes live about two weeks after your questionnaire is done. You get a walkthrough, the keys, and a website you own outright. WordPress, your hosting, your name on everything.
Everything a tour business needs to take direct bookings.
Every page, done
Home, tour pages, about, reviews, and contact. Structured around your signature tour, because one tour drives most of your revenue.
Booking built in
FareHarbor "Check Availability" flows wired in and tested on the phones your guests actually book from. Other platforms link straight to your booking page.
Copy written for you
Tour descriptions, itineraries, and your story, drafted from your questionnaire answers in your voice. You approve every word before launch.
Search-ready structure
Clean headings, fast pages, and tour pages built for the searches travelers type right before they book.
Easy to update
Change a price, swap a photo, or add a tour without calling a developer. The parts you need to touch are simple. The rest is protected.
Yours, outright
WordPress on hosting in your name. No platform can lock you out, raise your rent, or hold your website hostage.
Meet Blue Ridge Paddle Co.
The demo is a complete build for a fictional paddle outfitter in Asheville. Everything on it ships with your site: the booking flow, the tour pages, the itineraries, the reviews, the mobile menu.
Open it on your phone. Try to break it.
One price. Packed with everything.
Complete website build: pages, copy, booking integration, launch. Add the Safe Travels care plan for $39/mo and never think about updates, backups, or small edits again.
The ones everyone asks first.
Do I need FareHarbor?
No. FareHarbor gets the deepest integration, with availability checks right on your tour pages. Peek Pro, Rezdy, Checkfront, and others link guests straight to your booking page. And tours without online booking can use a built-in inquiry mode instead.
Why is the founding rate so much lower?
Site in a Suitcase is new, and the first cohort of sites earns the case studies. Founding buyers get the complete build for $499 and lock in Safe Travels at $39/mo for life. Once the founding spots are filled, the price moves to $1,497.
Do I actually own the site?
Yes. It is WordPress, on hosting in your name, on your domain. If we never speak again after launch, you keep everything and it keeps working. No subscriptions required to keep your own website.
Ready to unpack?
The founding rate is $499 for a complete build, regularly $1,497. Kick the tires on the demo first, then claim your spot.
Not sure yet? Book a quick call and we'll figure out if it's a fit.