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Answer the review about a hotel you did not own, calmly and in public.

Reputation management for a travel agency is what a family reads about you after a relative gave your name and before they transfer an advance. GullySales sets the review routine at the end of each trip and drafts the reply to a complaint about something that happened on the ground.

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

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What reputation management means

Reputation management is watching what is said about your business across Google, social media and review sites, and responding to it before it changes a buyer's mind. GullySales monitors mentions, drafts responses to negative reviews and flags recurring complaints back to your team.

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Last updated 5 Oct 2026.

For travel agencies and tour operators

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

  • “You get blamed for the hotel's mistake”

    The room was small and the review names your agency, because you are who they paid.

  • “The last day of the trip is the only moment”

    Ask on the bus to the airport, while it is still a good memory. A week later they are back at work.

  • “An advance payment makes people nervous”

    A first-time traveller is sending money to a stranger, so what a search of your name turns up is most of the decision.

What we do

What we deliver for travel agencies and tour operators.

The work available for this need. We agree the deliverables and responsibilities for your engagement in writing.

  1. A review ask built into the last day

    The tour manager asks on the final transfer with the link ready and a note of who agreed, rather than a message sent a week after everyone got home.

    Result: Reviews arrive while the trip still feels good.

  2. Replies drafted for the complaints you know are coming

    Wording ready for a disappointing hotel room, a late vehicle, a cancelled sightseeing stop and a refund argument, written to state what was fixed on the ground.

    Result: The reply is ready to post, in your words.

  3. Alerts on the agency name and the owner's name

    Notifications for Google, Facebook, the travel listing sites and the common misspellings, so a post reaches you when it is posted.

    Result: You find out before the next family does.

  4. Trust signals put where a nervous traveller looks

    Ministry of Tourism recognition, IATA accreditation, years in business and the office address placed on the site and in the quote, where you hold them.

    Result: A first-time traveller can see whom they are paying.

  5. A record of what went wrong on each trip

    A short note after every departure naming the hotel, vehicle or guide that caused a complaint, kept so the same supplier is not booked again.

    Result: The complaint stops repeating itself next season.

  6. Reviews counted in the report

    New reviews, the rating, which trips produced them and how quickly each was answered, read against the baseline.

    Result: You see whether your good trips are being written about.

How the result is measured

  • Average rating
  • Response time to reviews
  • Negative mentions resolved

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

Read the full online reputation management page

What to do with each review

How to answer each kind of review a travel agency gets.

Praise after a trip
Thank the family and name the destination, not the people. Ask whether they will share a photograph with their permission. Do not offer a discount on the next trip for a review.
Hotel or transfer failed on the ground
Apologise and say what you raised with the supplier. Check that every trip has a backup number, and that the tour manager photographs the problem and tells you at once, not after the trip.
Visa refused
Say that the decision belongs to the embassy and not to the agency, and that you help with documents. Check that your document checklist was given in writing and the traveller signed that it was received.
Flight changed or cancelled by the airline
Explain, in general words, that the refund route runs through the airline. Check what the airline told you and when, and call the traveller with it before you reply publicly.
Extra charges, GST or TCS
Reply with the itemised quote. Check that every quote shows the tax lines, the cancellation terms and what is not included, and that the traveller's reply to the quote is saved.
Co-traveller or tour manager behaviour
Reply in general words and say you have spoken to the manager. Hear the manager's side first. Check that the group briefing sets out rules for the tour manager and for the guests.

Who it is for

This is written for these travel agencies and tour operators.

  • Retail travel agencies selling domestic packages
  • Tour operators running their own group departures
  • International holiday and honeymoon specialists
  • Pilgrimage and yatra tour organisers
  • Air, rail and bus ticketing agents
  • Corporate travel and MICE agencies
  • Visa and travel documentation services
  • School and college educational tour operators
  • Local guides and sightseeing operators

Not for

It is not the right fit if.

  • Open complaints sit unanswered on your profile. Settle them with the traveller before asking anyone for a new review.
  • You are tempted to ask only happy travellers or to offer a gift for a review, which the platform's current rules do not allow.
  • Nobody in the office may apologise or offer a remedy.

Before you decide

Agree the work. Know how to judge it.

Reputation management for travel agencies and tour operators: use these checks to prepare, choose the scope, and review what changes.

Bring the right evidence

Collect recurring public feedback and the internal record of how the issue was handled. Separate factual corrections from genuine complaints that need a response.

Make the scope clear

Agree who checks facts, approves replies, and resolves problems outside marketing. Any request for reviews or testimonials must fit the trade's rules and the customer's permission.

Check the work in use

Read the response from the customer's point of view. It should address the issue without exposing private information or promising an outcome the team cannot provide.

Know when to change course

Do not buy or invent reviews. If the same complaint keeps returning, resolve its cause before publishing more positive material.

These are discussion points, not a fixed package. GullySales confirms the deliverables, responsibilities, fee, and term in writing after reading your brief and speaking with you.

How it works

How the reputation management 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

    Read what families can already see

    We search your agency name, the owner's name and the common misspellings on Google, Facebook and the travel listing sites. We note which reviews name a hotel or a transfer you did not run.

  2. 2

    Fix the booking confirmation

    The cancellation terms, the tax lines and the backup number go on the quote and the confirmation in writing, so a later complaint about a refund or an extra charge has an answer on paper.

  3. 3

    Put the review ask on the last transfer

    Your tour manager asks on the way to the airport, with the link ready and a note of who agreed. We set up the link and the wording; the ask itself stays with the person who was on the trip.

  4. 4

    Draft the replies for the usual complaints

    A poor hotel room, a late vehicle, a dropped sightseeing stop and a refund argument each get wording you can post in your own name. You approve each reply before it goes out.

  5. 5

    Log the supplier behind each complaint

    After every return we note which hotel, vehicle or guide caused a complaint, and read the new reviews against the baseline. A supplier named twice is a decision for you about next season's packages.

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.

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A traveller is posting about a refund we cannot give. What now?
Reply once, in public, stating what the booking terms said and what you have offered. Then move it to a call. Arguing in the thread is read by every family shortlisting you.
How many reviews do we need?
Enough recent ones that a family can see you are still operating. Twenty reviews from this year beats two hundred from 2019, so the routine matters more than the total.
Should we name the hotel in a reply when a traveller says it was poor?
Do not name it. Say you have taken the matter up with the supplier and will call. Name the hotel only in your own records. If the same hotel appears in complaints more than once, remove it from your packages.
A traveller says nobody told them the cancellation terms. How do we reply?
Offer to go through the written terms by call. Check whether the terms were on the quote and whether the traveller replied to it. If they were only said on the phone, change the process so they are always in writing.
What would a reply look like when the review blames us for a hotel's room?
For example, a Chennai agency is blamed in a review for a small room at a Munnar resort it did not run. The reply reads: "Thank you for telling us, and we are sorry the room was not what you expected. We have raised it with the resort and will call you today." It does not name the resort. The tour manager's photograph of the room and the note to the supplier go in the agency's own file.
A review says we cheated on a visa and the person was never our customer. What do we do?
Check your booking records for the name first. If there is no booking, reply once to say you cannot find one and ask them to call you, and report the review to the platform as not a customer. Do not post the person's details. Whether the platform removes it is its decision, not yours or ours.
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.

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