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7 minutes readBy the end of this article, you should have a good understanding of how to create an engaging audio tour that will not only improve the visitor experience but also lead to increased revenues for your business. And, we will also delve into how SmartGuide and RateHawk, an online booking tool for travel professionals, can provide a seamless and efficient solution for travel agents, tour operators, and other content creators.
It’s a win-win situation that unlocks the potential of travel agencies and tour operators to maximize their business opportunities.
Streamlined creation of audio tours with SmartGuide
SmartGuide simplifies the entire process of creating an audio tour from start to finish. From recording and editing audio files to designing the tour route and publishing it on multiple mobile app platforms, SmartGuide makes it easy for anyone to create their own audio-guided tour.
SmartGuide is a global digital travel guide platform that turns every phone into a personal travel guide. It offers a user-friendly, multi-language audio tour system that empowers destinations and travel businesses to help visitors explore thousands of attractions around the world while enjoying features such as self-guided audio tours, offline maps, and multimedia experiences that point out interesting sights and playing engaging stories as they walk around. With over 100,000 covered tourist places, SmartGuide provides extensive global coverage.
Experience SmartGuide: A free AI-enhanced CMS, crafting localized tours effortlessly with intuitive text-to-speech and auto-translation features. Photo: smart-guide.org
SmartGuide brings significant benefits to destinations and travel businesses who consider creating and implementing digital travel guides:
- No maintenance costs: SmartGuide eliminates the need for additional expenses in maintaining digital guides.
- Multilingual support: SmartGuide supports 102 languages, including Chinese, French, German, Spanish, English, Hindi, and many more, enabling the creation of guides in diverse languages to cater to a global audience.
- Free AI-powered CMS: SmartGuide offers a free content management system (CMS) with advanced features like AI-powered text-to-speech and auto-translation, or multi-layered regional tours, making it easy to localize content and create region-specific guides.
- Detailed data insights: SmartGuide’s big data dashboards and provide accurate and detailed insights into visitor behavior, including demographics, acquisition channels, and popular tours/places.
- Expert data analysis: SmartGuide offers expert data analysis services, helping destinations gain a deeper understanding of their visitors and optimize their marketing strategies accordingly.
- Destination marketing services: SmartGuide provides destination marketing services and expert consultations to support destinations in effectively promoting their offerings.
- POI advertising: Travel businesses can take advantage of POI advertising with SmartGuide to promote their offerings (contact us for more information).
- SmartGuide AI: Recently launched innovative addition to SmartGuide’s platform offers AI-powered personalized recommendations to travelers. This advancement aims to provide travelers with a truly customized personal guide and help destinations with sustainable tourism by distributing tourists from hotspots to less visited places.
Dive Deep with SmartGuide: Unlock precise visitor insights from demographics to top tours, all at your fingertips. Photo: smart-guide.org
Empowering travel agents with Ratehawk’s online booking tool for travel professionals
RateHawk is the online booking tool for travel professionals that combines innovative technologies and years of experience and provide travel industry professionals with access to a multi-product service where they can book everything they need for a journey.
Ratehawk’s online booking tool for travel professionals
This multi-product technology platform offers a comprehensive range of services for travel agents and travel agencies.
- 2 000,000+ hotels, guest houses, apartments, and hostels.
- 70,000+ direct contracts with hotels.
- Air tickets from 350 airlines worldwide (up to 9 passengers in a single booking).
- The best rates from direct contracts and 180+ hotel suppliers, consolidators, OTAs and DMCs.
Travel agents can take advantage of the booking engine and hotel search API to access real-time availability, rates, and inventory for smooth hotel reservations. RateHawk also caters to group hotel bookings and provides solutions for transfer hotel reservations. Additionally, the platform offers travel industry news and product updates, keeping travel agents informed about the latest trends and developments.
With its innovative B2B portal for agents, RateHawk is a trusted partner in the travel industry, providing reliable travel software solutions and empowering travel agencies with powerful booking tools and technology.
Unlocking synergies – The mutual benefits of SmartGuide and RateHawk for tour operators and travel agencies
By combining the innovative features of SmartGuide’s digital audio guide platform with RateHawk’s innovative technologies and booking engine, customers can unlock new opportunities to enhance their travel experiences.
How SmartGuide Customers Can Benefit from RateHawk
SmartGuide customers, especially tour operators and travel agencies, can benefit from RateHawk by having access to a straightforward and high-quality B2B hotel booking engine with numerous hotels worldwide. RateHawk has a portfolio of hotels, especially in the US, and offers competitive rates. It also provides tour operators and travel agencies with an interactive map that allows targeted searches with ease. Also, RateHawk offers a loyalty program for travel professionals that delivers cashback in points for bookings.
RateHawk has a portfolio of hotels, especially in the US, and offers competitive rates.
How RateHawk customers can benefit from SmartGuide
RateHawk customers (i.e. travel agents/travel agencies) can benefit from SmartGuide by being able to create interactive experiences for travelers (their clients) with digital audio tours of destinations they are serving and where they are booking hotels in. Additionally, they have the opportunity to increase customer engagement and boost revenues through selling paid digital audio tours on SmartGuide. Finally, the digital audio guides can also be embedded into the tour operators’ and travel agencies’ websites with a simple code.
Revolutionize travel with SmartGuide’s digital audio tours. Photo: smart-guide.org
SmartGuide has revolutionized the way visitors explore destinations. With its extensive global coverage, multilingual support, free CMS, detailed data insights, expert data analysis services, and destination marketing services; SmartGuide is an indispensable tool for all travel businesses. Together with RateHawk, the two platforms enable tour operators and travel agencies to unlock synergies for enhanced business opportunities.
The two platforms enable tour operators and travel agencies to unlock synergies for enhanced business opportunities.
How to create a digital audio-guided tour with SmartGuide
- Identify the places and attractions you want to include in your tour.
- Research each place and attraction thoroughly so that you can provide accurate information about them in your tour recordings.
- Create scripts for each place that include interesting facts and stories about them, as well as directions on how visitors should proceed from one place to another.
- Record your scripts using professional equipment, or use text-to-speech technology with SmartGuide if you don’t want to record yourself.
- Edit your recordings if necessary so that they sound natural and professional before adding them to your tour package on SmartGuide or RateHawk’s platform.
- Test out your tour package before launching it publicly.
Maximize your revenues with SmartGuide and RateHawk and create an engaging audio guided tour for travelers
Utilizing the services of SmartGuide and RateHawk will help you maximize your revenue by providing users with a unique experience that they won’t forget. With these two powerful tools, you can create a memorable experience that will leave your customers wanting more!
With RateHawk, your tour operators and travel agents can optimize their travel services bookings. With the SmartGuide platform, they can create engaging personal digital tour guides for travelers and provide them with immersive stories.
Combined with RateHawk’s services, you can easily maximize your revenue by providing customers with an unforgettable experience.
SmartGuide is a great way to create an audio-guided tour that will engage travelers from all over the world. It offers multilingual text and audio, offline maps, and itineraries to make sure that every traveler has a unique experience. Furthermore, its optimization for both indoor and outdoor use makes it easy to create tours in any environment.
Combined with RateHawk’s services, you can easily maximize your revenue by providing customers with an unforgettable experience.
It’s a win-win situation that unlocks the potential of travel agencies and tour operators to maximize their business opportunities.
Redefine your visitors’ experiences. Unveil the potential of audio-guided journeys. Schedule a demo now and revolutionize your clients’ travels
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If you’re ready to take your tours and hotel bookings to the next level, then consider taking advantage of both RateHawk’s and SmartGuide’s services today!
