The list of online travel resellers in tours, activities and attractions is long and constantly changing. At Arival we’ve been hard at work compiling them.
So we have developed a compendium of more than 60 companies selling online or electronically through partners.
It’s imperfect, but still a great starting place to understand the distribution landscape for travel’s fastest growing segment.
We’ve organized all of these companies into several categories:
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Major global brands
. These are often referred to as OTAs, or online travel agencies, but some of these are not true online travel agencies. They may not offer flights or hotels, or they may do more B2B sales (sales to other businesses, such as Hotelbeds, which sells mostly to travel agencies). So we are avoiding the commonly used OTA acronym.
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Regional and Other Online Sellers
: These are smaller online sellers or companies that focus on a particular region (e.g. Civitatis on Spain and Latin America), companies that focus on B2B sales, such as BeMyGuest in Singapore.
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General OTAs that sell activities
highlights OTAs whose main focus is transportation or accommodation but may do meaningful sales of tours, activities and attractions. There are likely many other OTAs we should list here. Please let us know if you see a company missing.
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Attraction ticket specialists
focus on - yes, you guessed it, attraction tickets.
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Locals, Guides and Peer-to-Peer Experiences
are online sellers connecting travelers with local experiences or directly with guides in the destination.
The last category groups other online sellers focused on a particular
Activities Niche
or sub-segment, such as Adrenaline’s focus on adventure activities.
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We’ve compiled this through time-consuming manual labor, and we’ve undoubtedly missed a few. So tell us what we’ve missed, or mistaken. Email Douglas at arivalevent.com.