Turning 531 trip enquiries into a booking pipeline

Turning 531 trip enquiries into a booking pipeline

Bookings · Travel agency

A travel agency sells all-inclusive beach-resort packages with coach transfers, early-booking prices and instalments. Demand was never the problem: people wanted the trips. The problem was what happened after someone asked.

531trip enquiries in one organised queue
1form, one sheet and one status per enquiry
Couples to clubsfrom two travellers to group bookings of 15 rooms

The situation

Enquiries everywhere, follow-up nowhere

Requests arrived in comments, messages and calls, with dates, group sizes and budgets scattered across all of them. Nobody could say which enquiries had been answered, and families who were ready to book waited too long for a reply.

What we did

A booking pipeline the team could actually run

  1. One form for every trip

    Ads and posts pointed people to a single form that asked the questions the sales team needed first: the trip and the number of people.

    Lead forms
  2. One sheet for every enquiry

    Responses landed in a shared sheet with a status column, so every request had an owner and a next step: called, sent on WhatsApp, booked.

    CRO & Analytics
  3. Public dates before the call

    Departure dates were published in advance, so callers already knew which trip they wanted and the conversation started at the booking, not the brochure.

  4. Content that answered the questions

    A calendar of destination, package and instalment posts aimed at the families and groups who book resort trips together.

    Social Media Marketing

The pipeline

Ad or postbeachpackagesOne formtrip · people· contactOne sheetevery enquiryin one placeCall orWhatsAppstatus loggedper rowBookedseat onthe trip
Ad or postOne formOne sheetCall orWhatsAppBooked
From ad to seat: every enquiry moves through the same five steps.

What made the difference

Travel sells on speed. The moment a family asks about dates is the moment they are most ready to book. A simple pipeline that nobody could lose track of was worth more than another campaign.

Bookings is not only ads. It is the path from the first question to the confirmed seat.

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