Online Marketing

The Tour Operator’s Guide to Mastering Google Search The Tour Operator’s Guide to Mastering Google Search

Getting to Know Google’s Search Engine Google is at the very core of the digital world and if you are an online travel business knowing the basics of it is a must to grow your travel website traffic. The internet...

Product Updates Tech

Launch: Revamped tour creation wizard Launch: Revamped tour creation wizard

A lot has changed since our servers crashed last year. Our data center charges growing by 300%. We moved into a new office. And our team grew by 5x (3 people to 15 people, FWIW). Over the last three months we've been working furiously behind-the-scenes...

Technical Travel Website

Getting started with PayPal in minutes Getting started with PayPal in minutes

We've supported PayPal for a while now. When you first create your account with us, we enable our OWN PayPal account for you to get started quickly. (more…)

Business Product Updates Tech

2014 – The Year Our Servers Crashed! 2014 – The Year Our Servers Crashed!

2014 was a "get your act together and focus" year for us. At the end of 2013, we winded down all service-projects that were "helping us bootstrap" (bad idea in hindsight; a topic for another post); and entered 2014 with...

Online Marketing Product Updates

Introducing Mailchimp integration with Vacation Labs Introducing Mailchimp integration with Vacation Labs

Mailchimp has always been a handy tool for email marketing. Its free for upto 2,500 email subscribers and is great tool for tour operators who want to keep their customers up-to-date with their upcoming tour schedule and promotions. (more…)

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Stripe payments for European and US tour operators Stripe payments for European and US tour operators

At Vacation Labs we're always looking out for what tour operators want in their booking systems. When it comes to payment gateways, our US and European tour operators didn't really have much of a choice besides Paypal. (more…)