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Keep every park enquiry, quote and advance in one place.

A CRM for a wildlife tour company is a single record of each guest, from the first park question to the advance and the review afterwards. GullySales sets up the fields, the stages and the reminders around the way safari bookings are actually made.

Scope, fee, reporting and term are agreed in writing after we have read your brief and spoken to you.

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What CRM means

A CRM is the record where every enquiry, call and quote is kept against a customer, replacing separate notebooks, spreadsheets and memory. GullySales sets up or cleans an existing CRM and reports from it by enquiry outcome rather than by activity logged.

Last updated 18 Oct 2026.

For wildlife tour companies

Where it usually goes wrong, and what we would do.

  • “Enquiries live in phones, not in a system”

    A guest messages one staff member on WhatsApp, calls another and emails a third. When a booking window opens, nobody can say who has quoted which guest. One shared record stops the same guest receiving two different quotes.

  • “The park and the month decide the order of work”

    A February Tadoba enquiry is urgent in a way a September Kaziranga enquiry is not. A CRM that sorts by park and travel month tells the team which guest to call first when a booking window is near.

  • “A quote needs a status, not just a send”

    Sent, read, questions asked, advance paid, lodge booked directly. Without those stages the team cannot tell a warm quote from a cold one, and a guest who went quiet is forgotten.

  • “Past guests are the cheapest next booking”

    A guest who toured Kabini last year is the likely planner of the next trip. If their details, their park and their group sit in a record, the reopening note goes to the right people.

What we do

What we deliver for wildlife tour companies.

Every deliverable, what it covers for you, and the result it is there to produce. Nothing here is an extra.

  1. Safari enquiry fields

    Fields for park, zone, month, group size, guest type, budget and the stay requested.

    Result: Every enquiry records the facts needed to quote.

  2. Pipeline stages for a safari booking

    Stages from first enquiry to quote sent, advance received, trip run and review asked.

    Result: Each guest sits at a stage everyone can see.

  3. Window reminders by park

    A reminder against each open enquiry as its park's booking window nears.

    Result: The team sees which enquiries need action first.

  4. A shared WhatsApp-to-record routine

    A simple habit and a template for logging chat enquiries into the record the same day.

    Result: Chat enquiries do not stay in one phone.

  5. Lodge-bypass note

    A field that marks when a guest booked the lodge directly, with the reason if known.

    Result: You can study when a quote loses the booking.

  6. Past guest list

    A tagged list of guests by park, year and persona.

    Result: A note to a reopened park goes to the guests who visited it.

How the result is measured

  • Enquiries logged in the CRM
  • Data completeness
  • Reports generated from CRM data

Recorded as a baseline before work starts, so every later report has an honest comparison.

Who it is for

This is written for these wildlife tour companies.

  • Tiger reserve safari packagers
  • Bird watching and birding tour leaders
  • Photography tour organisers for wildlife photographers
  • Jungle lodge and resort tour desks
  • Family wildlife holiday planners
  • School and nature club trip operators
  • Elephant, rhino and Kaziranga specialists
  • Corporate off-site operators using jungle lodges

How it works

How the CRM work runs

The work itself, in order. How an engagement starts, from your brief to a written scope, is set out on our method page.

  1. 1

    Map the sales process

    We record how a deal actually moves from enquiry to close in your business today.

  2. 2

    Configure stages and fields

    The CRM's pipeline and fields are built to match that process exactly, not a generic template.

  3. 3

    Set up automations

    Reminders, assignment rules and follow-up triggers are configured so routine steps happen without manual effort.

  4. 4

    Test with real deals

    We run the configuration against actual current deals to catch gaps before the whole team relies on it.

Where this fits

Three pieces of sales work, in this order.

This work sits inside sales management. A target, a review routine and someone who owns the number.

  1. Step 1

    Sales audit

    Find where deals are being lost and what to fix first.

    Start here if you cannot say where orders are lost.

  2. Step 2

    Sales process design

    One written way to sell, from first enquiry to repeat order.

    Start here if every salesperson sells differently.

  3. Step 3 · you are here

    Sales management

    A target, a review routine and someone who owns the number.

    Start here if the team has targets and no routine.

Tell us what you need Your brief is read before we call. Scope, fee and term in writing.

FAQ

Questions owners ask before they call.

Not here? More answers, or ask on WhatsApp.

Do we need paid software?
Start with what the team will actually use. A shared sheet can work for a small operator. Move to a CRM tool when the number of enquiries makes the sheet slow, and check the tool's current pricing and data terms.
Who should own the record?
One named person in the team, who checks it each day. Everyone can add to it, but one owner keeps the stages honest and chases entries that have not moved.
What about guests' personal documents?
Collect only what a booking needs and store identity documents carefully. Parks ask for guest details in their own systems, so follow each park's current rules and keep copies away from open chats.
How much does it cost?
There is no price list, because the work differs by business. The fee is scoped after we have read your brief and spoken to you, and put in writing before anything starts, split into our time, your media spend and production.
How long is the contract?
The term is agreed in writing after we have spoken, along with the fee and the reporting. It is never a default twelve months, and renewal is decided on the numbers against the baseline recorded at the start.
How soon will we see results?
It depends on the trade, the channel and what is already in place. After we have read your brief and spoken to you, we say what we would expect to move first and how it will be measured against the baseline. Nothing here is guaranteed.
Who will actually do the work?
The person you speak to before anything starts. We work from one office in Nagarbhavi, Bengaluru, with no account managers in between.
What do you need from us?
Your brief, and a conversation. After that, access to whatever this work touches, such as your website, your accounts or your enquiry record, and time with the people who handle your enquiries.
What if we are not happy with the work?
Tell us and the plan changes. Everything is reported against the baseline, so a number that is not moving is visible to both sides. The term is in your written scope, and the refund and cancellation policy sets out the rest.

Your next practical step

Tell us what you are trying to grow, and we will read it before we call.

Eight short steps, mostly taps. Skip anything you would rather answer on the call.