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Travel agencies and tour operators · Email marketing

Write to last year's travellers before they start asking around again.

Email for a travel agency works on past travellers and corporate desks, the two groups who read at a desk rather than on WhatsApp. GullySales builds the list from your own booking records, writes the season note and the offsite proposal, and keeps consent handled properly.

A post room: a wall rack of pigeonholes with sorted letters and strapped bundles, a loaded mail trolley wheeled up in front of it, and on the bench a franking machine with one envelope under the press arm, franked and cleared

What email marketing means

Email marketing is sending planned messages to a list of past and prospective customers who have agreed to hear from you. It suits offers, updates and staying in touch with someone who is not ready to buy yet. GullySales writes and schedules these emails and tracks who opens, clicks and enquires.

For travel agencies and tour operators

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

  • Your best list is the booking file

    Every family that travelled with you has a next trip and an anniversary. Nobody has written to them since the invoice.

  • HR teams answer email, families answer WhatsApp

    An offsite enquiry travels through an admin inbox and a forwarded PDF, which is a different job from talking to a bride's mother.

  • January is when May gets booked

    Write while school dates are being confirmed at home, not in April when the hotels have gone.

What we do

What we deliver for travel agencies and tour operators.

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

  1. A list built from your booking records

    Past travellers pulled out of your files with the trip, the month, the group size and the occasion, sorted into families, seniors, honeymooners and corporate, with consent recorded.

    Result: You are writing to people who already paid you once.

  2. The season note sent before people start planning

    A short mail in January for the summer, one before the muhurtham months for honeymoons and one when yatra registration opens, each carrying two or three departures and a date to reply by.

    Result: Bookings come in before the rush instead of during it.

  3. A corporate offsite proposal an admin can forward

    One document with the itinerary, the per-head cost, the hotel, the transport and the payment terms, in a form a finance team accepts without rewriting.

    Result: Your proposal gets circulated instead of redone.

  4. An occasion note to past travellers

    A short personal mail around the anniversary of their trip or a family occasion you recorded, carrying one suggestion and nothing else.

    Result: The family remembers you before a cousin recommends somebody else.

  5. The quote that got no reply, chased in writing

    A two-mail sequence after a quote goes unanswered, the first asking whether the dates changed, the second offering a shorter or cheaper version.

    Result: Quotes stop dying quietly in an inbox.

  6. Opens, replies and bookings reported monthly

    Which mails were opened, which brought replies and which turned into bookings, split by group and set against the baseline.

    Result: You learn which list is worth writing to.

How the result is measured

  • Open rate
  • Click rate
  • Enquiries from email

Recorded as a baseline before work starts, then reported every month against it.

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.

  • You want a guaranteed Google ranking or a guaranteed number of leads. Nobody honest can promise either.
  • You need enquiries by next week and have nobody to answer them.
  • You want posts and reach reported, not enquiries and orders.

How it works

From your first message to the first monthly report.

No open-ended retainer. Each step has a point in time and something you receive.

  1. 01 · Day 1

    Free audit call

    45 minutes with whoever handles your enquiries: how they arrive, how fast they are answered, where they are lost.

  2. 02 · Within a few working days

    Written, scored report

    Six areas scored, fixes ranked by return and cost. If you want our help, the scope and fee come with it, in writing.

  3. 03 · Before work starts

    Baseline recorded

    Enquiries by source, reply time, conversion and cost per order, written down so every later month has an honest comparison.

  4. 04 · Month 1

    The first fix goes live

    Usually the cheapest one on the report: reply time, a follow-up sequence or the marketing-to-sales handover.

  5. 05 · Every month

    Report against the baseline

    What moved, what did not, and what changes next, in plain words.

  6. 06 · Month 3 to 6

    Renew on the numbers

    The term ends and you decide whether to continue from the results. No twelve-month lock.

How the work runs for travel agencies and tour operators

  1. 1

    Assess

    We look at where enquiries come from, how fast you reply, how quotes are written and followed up, and how many travellers return.

  2. 2

    Fix the quote and follow-up

    A clear itinerary format and a WhatsApp routine, so each quote gets an answer, yes or no.

  3. 3

    Show real trips

    Pages for your signature packages and a routine for collecting traveller photographs and reviews.

  4. 4

    Fill the calendar

    Seasonal campaigns planned months ahead, plus corporate, school and pilgrimage outreach for the quieter periods.

  5. 5

    Bring travellers back

    A past traveller calendar and referral ask, so the family you took to Kerala asks you about Kashmir.

Proof

What happened when owners fixed this.

Real clients, the work we did, and the result as it was recorded. Where no number was recorded, none is claimed.

All case studies
  • Hotel Felicity Inn

    Situation
    A traveller compares three hotels on a phone and books one. The website was not built for that.
    What we did
    • The site rebuilt around booking
    • Photography and one look
    • Search work for destination searches
    • Content a traveller reads
    Result
    • Online bookings increased 35%
    • Organic traffic increased 50% within six months
    • Positive reviews on Google and TripAdvisor increased 30%
    Read the case study
  • SB Engineering

    Situation
    Buyers searching for laser cutting and sheet metal work in Bengaluru were finding other suppliers first, because the company did not rank for the terms its own customers type.
    What we did
    • The site redesigned for mobile
    • Search work on the buyer's terms
    • Content that shows the work
    • Social channels managed
    Result
    • Website traffic rose 60% within six months, against a target of 50%.
    • High-quality leads rose 45%, with a rise in conversion rates alongside them.
    • Fifteen target keywords moved up the rankings, five of them into the top three positions.
    Read the case study

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Why us

Why owners pick GullySales over an agency.

  • Marketing and sales, as one job

    Most agencies stop at the enquiry. We also fix what happens after it: the reply, the follow-up, the quote and the CRM.

  • The person on the first call does the work

    No account managers in between. You are never handed to someone you have not met.

  • A baseline before anything starts

    Your numbers are written down on day one, so every monthly report compares against something honest.

  • The fee in writing, split three ways

    Our time, your media spend and production on separate lines. You always see what goes to us.

  • No lock-in, no guarantees we cannot keep

    Three to six months at a time. We never promise a ranking or a lead count, because nobody controls those.

  • One office, and we say so

    Nagarbhavi, Bengaluru. We work across India by call and WhatsApp and travel when a session needs to be in person.

#257, 3rd floor, Sri Nanjundeshwara Complex, Nagarbhavi 8th Block, Outer Ring Road. How we work.

The offer

Start with a free audit of how you sell.

It is useful on its own, whether or not you hire us.

What you receive

  • A 45-minute call with the person who will do the work
  • A written, scored report on the six places orders leak, within a few working days
  • Every fix ranked by what it returns and what it costs
  • The one thing to do first, and why
  • An honest line on whether you need outside help at all
  • If you do, the scope and the fee in writing

No invoice. No obligation. No sales script.

We call and WhatsApp on this number.

We use your details only to reply to this enquiry. See the privacy policy.

FAQ

Questions owners ask before they call.

Not here? More answers, or ask on WhatsApp.

Do travellers read email at all?
Families barely do and corporate desks read nothing else. Use WhatsApp for the family and email for the HR team, the school coordinator and anything with a proposal attached.
How do we build a corporate list?
From the companies your own travellers work at, the offsites you have already quoted for, and the admin teams near your office. A bought list of HR addresses gets marked as spam and takes your domain down with it.
How do we stop people using our itinerary to book on their own?
Send a clear summary first and the detailed hotel-by-hotel plan once the traveller has confirmed interest or paid a small booking amount. Follow up within a day of sending any quote, because the traveller who hears back quickly rarely rebuilds the trip alone.
Should we list our packages on large travel portals?
It can help a tour operator fill group departures, but the portal owns the customer relationship and takes a share. We usually build direct enquiries and repeat business first, then decide on portals for specific departures.
How much does it cost?
There is no price list, because the work differs by business. The fee is scoped in the free audit and put in writing before anything starts, split into our time, your media spend and production.
How long is the contract?
Three to six months at a time. There is no twelve-month lock, and renewal is decided on the numbers against the baseline recorded at the start.
How soon will we see results?
Fixes to reply time, follow-up and your Google Business Profile usually show in weeks, because the enquiries already exist. Ads show in days once follow-up is ready. SEO and content take months. The audit tells you which applies to you.
Who will actually do the work?
The person you meet on the audit call. We work from one office in Nagarbhavi, Bengaluru, with no account managers in between.
What do you need from us?
For the audit, last month's enquiries in any format and 45 minutes with whoever handles them. After that, access to the accounts the work touches, such as the website, Google Business Profile or CRM, and time for the monthly review.

Get a free audit of how you sell, and a scored report of where the work is.

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