Marketplaces take every booking
GetYourGuide and Viator can bring demand, but their commission reduces what remains from each sale. You also depend on channels that control the customer relationship and booking path.
Direct booking for visitor attractions
Take More Direct Bookings From Your Attraction
A direct booking website for visitor attractions, built around the booking system you already use. Start from £2,495, keep more booking income, and rely less on GetYourGuide, Viator and other marketplaces.
From £2,495
Direct booking build price
£59 a month
Required Website Care
24/7
AI Receptionist answering
12 months
Minimum monthly term
Every booking through GetYourGuide or Viator can carry a sizeable cost. Suppliers typically pay around 20 to 30 per cent of each booking in commission. An attraction selling £50,000 a year through those channels could be paying roughly £10,000 to £15,000 away from the business.
You do not need to abandon the booking engine that runs your operation. We build the conversion and search website around the system you already use, including Bokun, FareHarbor, Rezdy, Checkfront, Bookeo and Freetobook. Your availability, payments and bookings keep working as they do now.
The problem
What is costing Visitor Attractions work right now
Your booking engine feels hidden
Visitors may reach your homepage but struggle to find prices, availability or the right ticket. Every extra click creates another chance to leave before completing the booking.
Peak days create missed calls
Staff are busy checking guests in, leading tours and handling queues. Calls about group visits, annual passes and accessibility can go unanswered when demand is highest.
The ACCC Framework
Attract
Convert
Capture
Compound
How the system works
What you get
Included in the build
Every client also takes Website Care at £59 a month. Everything else is modular.
01
Booking engine integration
02
Bokun and FareHarbor support
03
Rezdy and Checkfront support
04
Experience and tour pages
05
Availability and book now
06
Online payments and deposits
07
Annual pass booking paths
08
Google Business Profile setup
09
Review generation journeys
10
Destination location pages
11
Google Ads landing pages
12
Booking conversion tracking
Pricing
Packages for Visitor Attractions
For tour operators, attractions, activity providers, accommodation and leisure businesses. Built to reduce how much of your business depends on the big booking marketplaces.
Direct Booking
£2,495
A conversion website wrapped around the booking system you already use.
Best for: Small operators already on a booking platform such as Bokun, FareHarbor, Rezdy, Checkfront, Bookeo or Freetobook.
- Up to 10 pages
- Booking engine integration
- Experience and tour pages
- Availability and book-now integration
- Payment integration where relevant
- Mobile booking journey
- Reviews and galleries
- WhatsApp and contact capture
- GA4 and booking conversion tracking
- Google Business Profile optimisation
- SEO foundations
- Audience Simulator access, included
- Copywriting and training
Booking Growth
£3,995
Built to shift demand away from the marketplaces and onto your own site.
Best for: Operators with several tours or experiences who want a direct sales channel they own.
Everything in Direct Booking, plus:
- Up to 20 pages
- Multiple tours and experiences
- Destination pages
- Service and location pages
- Advanced booking tracking
- Abandoned enquiry capture
- Email marketing integration
- Review generation
- Google Things to Do feeds where applicable
- Channel connectivity help where supported
- SEO content structure
- Google Ads landing pages
- Direct-booking conversion optimisation
Tourism Pro
From £5,995
For operators with real inventory and operational complexity.
Best for: Multi-location operations, accommodation, packages, ticketing and larger inventories.
Everything in Booking Growth, plus options such as:
- Multiple tours and attractions
- Accommodation and packages
- Ticketing
- Multi-location operations
- Large inventories
- Channel managers
- API connectivity
- Complex availability rules
- Supplier systems
- Bespoke booking workflows
Genuinely bespoke platforms move into custom travel and booking development, quoted separately from £10,000.
Website Care £59 a month Required
Hosting, SSL, daily backups, security monitoring, software updates, uptime monitoring, up to 30 minutes of content changes each month and email support.
All prices exclude VAT.
Monthly
Everything else is modular
Website Care is required for every client. Add anything else when you need it, and drop it when you do not.
Website Care
Required£59 a month
Hosting, SSL, daily backups, security monitoring, software updates, uptime monitoring, up to 30 minutes of content changes each month and email support.
AI Receptionist
£169 a month
Answers every call 24/7 in your business name, takes the job details, qualifies the caller and texts you immediately.
A human receptionist costs £24,000 to £28,000 a year. A live answering service runs £200 to £450 a month.
Website Chatbot
Price on application
Answers visitor questions on your site around the clock, using only what it has been taught about your business, and captures the enquiry before they leave.
Most visitors will not ring and will not fill in a form. They ask one question, get no answer, and leave.
Google Ads Management
£449 a month
Campaign management, bid and budget optimisation, ad copy testing, negative keyword management, landing page optimisation and a monthly reporting call.
Your ad spend goes direct to Google and is never marked up. Minimum recommended spend is £400 a month.
SEO and Content
£249 a month
Two optimised pages or articles a month, local SEO, Google Business Profile posts, citation building, rank tracking and monthly reporting.
Automated Social Media
£99 a month
Plans, writes and posts your social media to Facebook and Instagram. You approve a month of content in one sitting.
Intelligent Marketing Coach
£49 a month
A marketing plan built around your business, broken into weekly tasks, so you always know the next thing to do.
Extra Support Time
£75 a month
An additional 2 hours a month for changes, new pages and seasonal updates.
Bundles
Bundle them and pay less
The same modules, priced lower when taken together.
Care plus Receptionist
£199 a month
Saves £29
Care plus Receptionist plus Ads
£595 a month
Saves £82
Everything
£795 a month
Saves £141
No Upfront Option
£199 a month , 24 month term
No setup fee. A template site built for your trade, with hosting, care and the AI receptionist included. For businesses who want to start now without the upfront cost.
Start with no upfront cost- No setup fee
- Template site built for your trade
- Up to 5 pages
- Hosting and Website Care included
- AI Receptionist included
- Live in 5 working days
Terms
- 50% on signature, 50% on launch.
- Monthly billing starts at launch, with a 12 month minimum term and monthly thereafter.
- Ad spend is billed separately by Google and is never marked up.
- Modules can be added at any time.
- All prices exclude VAT.
Quote request
Get a price for your visitor attraction website
Two minutes of questions and we will send back a real number, not a range. Website packages start at £1,295, ecommerce from £2,495, and there is a no upfront option at £199 a month.
- A fixed price, not a range
- Reply within one working day
- No obligation and no sales sequence
The result
What changes once it is live
More bookings happen direct
Visitors find your own booking path, choose their date and pay through the system you already use. You keep more of the booking value and build a direct customer relationship.
Customers understand the experience
Clear pages explain tickets, timings, access, parking, what to bring and what happens next. Better information helps visitors choose confidently and reduces avoidable questions.
Your team receives better enquiries
Forms collect dates, group sizes, requirements and preferred experiences. Staff can price school, corporate and private bookings faster because the important details arrive together.
01
Your website becomes the hub of every booking
Your visitor attraction website should do more than display opening times and a few photographs. It should bring together your experiences, tour pages, ticket choices, annual passes, gift aid options, location details, reviews and booking links in one clear place.
We build around your existing booking system, rather than forcing you to replace it. Bokun, FareHarbor, Rezdy, Checkfront, Bookeo and Freetobook can connect with the new site. Visitors can check availability, choose timed entry, pay online and receive the right booking information.
That gives your team one reliable online home while the website keeps working outside office hours. People can research a day out in the evening, compare ticket options and book without waiting for someone to answer an email.
- Experience and tour pages
- Availability and book now
- Online payments and deposits
- Annual pass and gift aid options
02
Local search sends nearby visitors straight to you
People search for things to do near them before they choose a day out. They may search for family attractions in Durham, boat tours near Newcastle, rainy day activities in Northumberland, or historic places to visit in Sunderland. Your website needs useful pages that match those real searches.
We improve the parts of your website that help Google understand your attraction, its location and its experiences. We also keep your Google Business Profile useful, with accurate opening times, booking links, photographs, posts and answers to common visitor questions.
This helps people who are already looking locally find your own website before they reach a marketplace. We can build destination and location pages for the areas you serve, while keeping the content helpful rather than stuffed with repeated search phrases.
- Local search setup
- Google Business Profile support
- Destination and location pages
- Experience-led search pages
More detail
More on websites for visitor attractions
The rest of what visitor attractions ask us, tidied away. Open what you need.
A visitor should not have to hunt for prices, availability or the right ticket. We organise each experience around the decision they need to make. That may mean selecting a date, choosing timed entry, adding an annual pass, or understanding what happens after payment.
The booking path connects clearly to the system you already use. Visitors see the next action at the right point, whether that is checking availability, booking a tour, paying a deposit or buying an admission ticket. The page answers practical points before they become abandoned bookings.
We also add forms for enquiries that need a human answer. These forms ask for useful details, such as preferred date, group size, accessibility needs, school or corporate requirements, and the experience they want. You receive something you can price and act on, not a vague message saying, 'How much?'
- Group booking enquiry forms
- School visit enquiries
- Corporate and private hire forms
- Booking conversion tracking
When people compare attractions, reviews often decide which tab they open and which business they trust. A strong experience can still lose a booking if your recent reviews are hard to find, buried on another platform, or surrounded by unanswered comments.
We place genuine visitor feedback where it supports the booking decision. Reviews can sit beside experience details, ticket information and local travel pages. We also help create a follow-up process that asks customers for a review after their visit, when the experience is still fresh.
The system can direct happy visitors towards the right review page while giving unhappy visitors a clear private route to contact you. That helps your team spot problems early, without trying to control what customers say publicly.
- Review request journeys
- Review displays on key pages
- Google review links
- Proof beside booking choices
Attractions miss calls when staff are helping visitors, running tours, dealing with a busy peak day, or closing the site. A missed call can mean a lost group booking, wedding enquiry, school visit or family asking about tomorrow's availability.
Our AI Receptionist costs £169 a month, or £199 a month with Website Care. It answers 24 hours a day in your business name, takes the caller's details, sorts the urgency and texts the information to you immediately.
It can handle common first questions and capture the information your team needs to respond properly. Your staff can then call back with the right context, instead of guessing who called or asking the same questions again.
- Answers calls 24/7
- Uses your business name
- Takes booking and enquiry details
- Texts you straight away
Google Ads can put your attraction in front of people who are actively looking for tickets, tours and days out. It can be useful before school holidays, during quieter periods, for seasonal events, or when a new experience needs filling.
Management is £449 a month. We manage campaigns, bids, budgets, advert wording, unwanted search terms and the pages visitors land on. Your advertising spend is paid directly to Google. We never add a mark-up to it.
Tracking shows more than how many people clicked. We connect the campaign to booking actions and useful enquiries, so you can see which searches led to real bookings or group opportunities. That gives you better information before increasing spend.
- Campaign management
- Ad copy testing
- Google Ads landing pages
- Booking conversion tracking
- Ad spend paid direct to Google
A new website needs useful information added over time. Our SEO and Content service costs £249 a month. It includes two optimised pages or articles each month, local search work, Google Business Profile posts, listings across relevant directories, position tracking and a monthly report.
Content can answer the questions your visitors ask before booking. Examples include what to bring, parking, accessibility, bad weather plans, school visits, dog rules, group travel, seasonal events and the best time to arrive. These pages can support bookings while reducing repeated calls to your team.
You can also add Automated Social Media for £99 a month. It plans, writes and posts to Facebook and Instagram for your approval. The Intelligent Marketing Coach costs £49 a month and gives you weekly marketing tasks built around your attraction.
- SEO and Content, £249 a month
- Automated Social Media, £99 a month
- Intelligent Marketing Coach, £49 a month
- Monthly content and search reporting
Direct Booking costs £2,495. It suits an attraction that needs a proper website around its current booking engine, with experience pages, clear booking paths, local search foundations and useful visitor information. Booking Growth costs £3,995 and is the option most operators should take when direct bookings are a serious priority.
Booking Growth gives us more room for multiple experiences, stronger content, more booking paths, review journeys, location pages and campaign landing pages. Tourism Pro starts from £5,995 for operators with real inventory, several visitor journeys or more involved operational needs. Genuinely bespoke platforms are quoted separately from £10,000.
Every project requires Website Care at £59 a month. It covers hosting, security certificates, daily backups, security monitoring, software updates, uptime monitoring, up to 30 minutes of content changes each month and email support. If you want to start without the upfront build cost, the no upfront option is £199 a month over 24 months, with no setup fee.
- Direct Booking, £2,495
- Booking Growth, £3,995
- Tourism Pro, from £5,995
- Website Care, £59 a month
- No upfront option, £199 a month for 24 months
The honest comparison
Why do some websites cost £199?
It is a fair question, and it deserves a straight answer rather than a sales pitch.
If you simply need a basic online presence, a low-cost website builder may be enough. Somewhere to point people who already know your name. If that is genuinely all you need, do that and spend the money elsewhere. We would rather tell you that than take a fee for something you will not use.
Our websites are designed for established businesses that want Google traffic to turn into calls, enquiries and customers. Copy, tracking, conversion setup and ongoing management are built in. That is a different product solving a different problem, and it is priced accordingly.
A £199 builder site
Fine for a basic presence. Not built to win work.
A Look North website
Built so search traffic becomes booked jobs.
Who writes the words
A £199 builder site
You do, usually at 11pm, into a blank box.
A Look North website
We do. Copywriting for every page is included, written around the jobs you actually want.
Whether it shows up on Google
A £199 builder site
It will rank for your business name. Not much else.
A Look North website
A page for every service and every town you cover, structured so each one can rank.
What happens to an enquiry
A £199 builder site
A contact form emails you. If you miss it, you miss it.
A Look North website
Quote forms written for your trade, instant SMS and email alerts, and every enquiry stored so none are lost.
When the phone rings and you are on a job
A £199 builder site
It goes to voicemail. Most callers hang up and ring the next business.
A Look North website
Our AI receptionist answers 24/7 in your business name, takes the details and texts you straight away.
Knowing what is working
A £199 builder site
A visitor counter, if that.
A Look North website
Call tracking, conversion tracking and call attribution, so you know which clicks became real jobs.
Getting reviews
A £199 builder site
You remember to ask, sometimes.
A Look North website
Review generation set up so a request goes out after every job, with the results shown on your site.
What happens after launch
A £199 builder site
Nothing. It sits there until you cancel the subscription.
A Look North website
The Marketing Coach gives you a plan broken into weekly jobs, so the site keeps earning its keep.
Who owns it
A £199 builder site
The platform. Stop paying and it disappears.
A Look North website
You do. The code, the domain, the hosting account and the content are yours.
Speed on a phone
A £199 builder site
Template bloat, often slow, which costs you rankings and visitors.
A Look North website
Built mobile first, because that is where almost every local search happens.
When something breaks
A £199 builder site
A help centre article and a support queue.
A Look North website
Website Care at £59 a month: monitoring, backups, updates, and a person who answers.
We have a £199 a month option too. It is not the same thing.
If the upfront cost is the blocker rather than the quality, we do a no upfront option at £199 a month on a 24 month term. That is not a builder subscription. It is a real site built for your trade, with hosting, Website Care and the AI receptionist included, live in 5 working days. The difference between that and a £199 builder site is the difference between renting a van and renting a parking space.
What the difference buys
What you actually get for the difference
Not features. The things that change how much work comes in.
Every call answered
A missed call is a customer ringing your competitor. The AI receptionist picks up 24/7, qualifies the job and texts you. Most trades win back more than the cost of the whole website in the first few months.
Found for the work you want
One page cannot rank for eight services across twelve towns. We build a page for each, so you show up for the specific job someone is searching for right now.
Enquiries you can price
Not "how much for a bathroom?" but property type, scale, access, timing and photos. You quote accurately, first, without a site visit.
Proof that compounds
A review request after every job. In a year you have the review count competitors cannot catch up with, and reviews are the last thing a customer checks before calling.
Words written for you
Copywriting for every page is included. No blank boxes, no writing your own service descriptions at 11pm, no page that sounds like everyone else.
Proof of what paid off
Call tracking and conversion tracking show which clicks turned into jobs. You stop guessing which half of the marketing worked.
A plan for after launch
The Marketing Coach turns a strategy into weekly jobs small enough to actually finish. That is why our sites are still growing a year later.
You own the lot
Code, domain, hosting, content and your Google Business Profile. Nothing switches off if you leave, because nothing was rented to you.
If a basic presence is all you need, a builder is the sensible choice and we will say so. If you want the phone to ring more often, that is what we build. Get a fixed price.
FAQ
Visitor Attractions ask us these most
Price, timescales and ownership, answered for a visitor attraction.
Direct Booking costs £2,495, excluding VAT. Booking Growth costs £3,995 and is the option most visitor attractions should consider when taking more bookings directly is a key goal. Tourism Pro starts from £5,995 for attractions with more complex needs. A genuinely bespoke platform is quoted separately from £10,000. The build is paid 50 per cent on signing and 50 per cent on launch.
The timescale depends on the number of experiences, pages, booking paths and content needed. We agree the plan before work starts and tell you what we need from your team. Supplying booking details, prices, photographs, opening times and policies early keeps the project moving. We do not launch until the booking links, payments, forms and visitor information have been checked.
No. We build the website around the reservation system you already use. We can integrate booking engines including Bokun, FareHarbor, Rezdy, Checkfront, Bookeo and Freetobook. Your existing availability, payments and reservations can continue through that system. If you want to replace it, we can discuss the work separately, but changing your booking engine is not required for the website project.
Yes, provided your booking engine supports those rules. We present timed entry clearly and connect visitors to the correct availability. Pages can explain arrival windows, late arrival policies, capacity limits and busy-day advice. Your booking system remains responsible for live availability and reservations. We make the route to that information clear, so visitors do not book the wrong time or contact your team unnecessarily.
Yes, where your booking system supports those products and payment rules. We can create clear pages and booking routes for annual passes, gift aid choices, memberships and other ticket types. The website can explain the value and conditions before the visitor reaches checkout. We will confirm the exact setup with your booking system, so the page matches how your team processes each sale.
Yes. We can create enquiry forms for schools, coach groups, corporate visits, private hire and other larger bookings. The form can ask for the date, group size, age range, access requirements, preferred experience and other details your team needs. That means you receive a useful enquiry instead of a vague message. Your staff can then check capacity and prepare an accurate response.
Website Care costs £59 a month and is required for every client. It includes hosting, the security certificate, daily backups, security monitoring, software updates, uptime monitoring, up to 30 minutes of content changes each month and email support. A booking website must remain secure and available while visitors are buying tickets. Regular care helps keep the site, forms and connected software working properly.
The AI Receptionist answers calls 24 hours a day in your business name. It takes the caller's details, captures the reason for the call, sorts urgency and texts the information to you immediately. It is useful when staff are leading tours, serving guests or dealing with queues. It does not replace your team for complex decisions. It makes sure useful call details are not lost when nobody can answer.
The AI Receptionist costs £169 a month on its own. It costs £199 a month when bundled with Website Care, which saves £29 compared with buying both separately. We set it up around your attraction, common visitor questions and the information your team needs for callbacks. You can add it after the website launches, so you do not need to decide everything on day one.
Yes. Google Ads can support seasonal events, school holiday tickets, special tours, Christmas programmes, evening openings and quieter dates. Management costs £449 a month and includes campaign work, bid and budget changes, advert testing, unwanted search term control, landing page improvements and a monthly reporting call. Your ad spend is billed separately by Google and is never marked up by us.
Yes. We set up tracking for important actions such as booking starts, completed bookings, enquiry forms and phone calls. This helps connect an advert or search with a useful result, rather than only reporting clicks. Some bookings may still need checking against your booking system, especially where a visitor completes payment elsewhere. We explain what the tracking can confirm and report on it clearly.
SEO and Content costs £249 a month. It includes two optimised pages or articles each month, local search work, Google Business Profile posts, listings across relevant directories, position tracking and monthly reporting. Content may cover parking, accessibility, school visits, seasonal events, travel directions or experience guides. The aim is to give visitors useful answers and give Google more relevant pages to show.
Yes. Automated Social Media costs £99 a month. It plans, writes and posts content to Facebook and Instagram, with you approving a month of content in one sitting. It can support event promotion, visitor information, seasonal reminders and experience content. It is optional. You can also add the Intelligent Marketing Coach for £49 a month, which gives you weekly marketing tasks built around your attraction.
You own the website and the content created for your business once the project has been paid for. We build and maintain it for you, but it is not tied to a marketplace account. Your booking records remain with your booking system. We will also explain how your website, booking engine, Google Business Profile and marketing accounts fit together, so you know what you have.
Yes. The no upfront option costs £199 a month over a 24 month term, with no setup fee. It includes a template site built for your attraction, hosting, care and the AI Receptionist. It is intended for businesses that want to start now without paying the build cost upfront. The option is different from the full Direct Booking, Booking Growth and Tourism Pro builds, which use the stated project payment terms.
Project payments are 50 per cent on signature and 50 per cent on launch. Monthly billing starts when the website launches, with a 12 month minimum term and monthly billing thereafter. This applies to the required Website Care and any monthly modules you choose. You can add modules at any time. All prices exclude VAT, and advertising spend is always billed separately by Google.
Where we work
Working across the UK
We build local landing pages for every town you cover. These are the areas we work in most often.
Newcastle upon Tyne
Gateshead
Sunderland
Durham
North Shields
South Shields
Whitley Bay
Wallsend
Jarrow
Washington
Cramlington
Blyth
Morpeth
Hexham
Ponteland
Chester-le-Street
Consett
Gosforth
Jesmond
Heaton
Tynemouth
Killingworth
Houghton-le-Spring
Seaham
Bedlington
References
Useful links for a visitor attraction
The bodies and tools a visitor attraction deals with, plus where to go next on our site.
More from us
Official sources
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Also built for
Websites for similar businesses
Closest to visitor attractions in how they win work. Each gets its own page, quote form and set of searches.
Booking & Tourism
- Adventure Centres
- Axe Throwing & Social Venues
- B&Bs & Guest Houses
- Boat Tour Operators
- Brewery & Distillery Tours
- Castles & Heritage Sites
- Climbing & Bouldering Centres
- Coach Tour Operators
- Cycling Tour Operators
- Escape Rooms
- Event & Experience Operators
- Farm Attractions
- Food & Drink Tour Operators
- Glamping Sites
- Golf Clubs & Courses
- Holiday Cottages & Lets
- Holiday Parks
- Karting Circuits
- Kayaking & Canoeing Operators
- Museums & Galleries
- Paintball & Airsoft Venues
- Spa & Leisure Businesses
- Walking Tour Operators
- Wildlife & Nature Tour Operators
Looking for a different sector? See all sectors we build for, or tell us your trade and we will quote for it.
Next step
Get a fixed price for your visitor attraction website
Tell us the visitor attraction work you want more of and the towns you cover. We will send back a real number with a scope attached, not a range.