Adventure Free
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Advertise Australian tours and charters with Adventure Free
Adventure Free is an Australian online travel agent that connects adventure travellers to deals and offers on tours and experiences across the country. For a tour operator, that makes it an appealing shop window: the people browsing it are comparing real trips with real prices, and they are usually close to booking. The TicketingHub integration turns that shop window into a proper sales channel — availability stays live, and bookings flow into the same dashboard as everything else you sell.
What travellers find on Adventure Free
Adventure Free's pitch to guests is up-to-date information on the latest deals for Australian tourist spots — price comparisons across different tours, customer ratings and reviews, complete trip details and itineraries, and photo galleries. It covers the classic Australian bucket-list circuit:
- Whale watching tours
- Fraser Island (K'gari) tours
- Australia's Red Centre
- Great Barrier Reef tours
- Outback tours
- Boat charters
Because the site is built around comparison and deals, it tends to attract price-aware domestic travellers — a different crowd from the international visitors most global OTAs bring. Operators who already sell well to overseas guests often use Adventure Free to fill the domestic gaps in their calendar.
What the TicketingHub connection changes
Without a channel manager, listing on a reseller site means managing allocations by hand: emailing updated availability, blocking off seats "just in case", and typing incoming bookings into your own system. TicketingHub's channel manager removes all of that. Your live availability is shared with Adventure Free, and each booking made there drops into your TicketingHub dashboard and daily manifest automatically — same list your direct bookings appear in, no re-keying, no double-bookings.
You stay in control of the commercial side. Which products go on the channel, at what rate, and on what commission terms is agreed between you and Adventure Free; TicketingHub simply keeps the two systems in sync so the partnership doesn't create admin.
There's a reporting payoff too. Because every Adventure Free booking is tagged with its reseller name, your TicketingHub reports split revenue by channel — you can see what the partnership contributes per product, per month, and compare it against your direct sales instead of guessing whether the channel is pulling its weight.
Three ways operators use the channel
Filling shoulder-season departures
Deal-focused audiences respond well to off-peak offers. Reef trips in the quieter months or midweek Outback departures can be pushed through Adventure Free while your peak dates stay mostly direct. Because the channel only sells what you make available to it, you can open and close inventory by season without renegotiating anything.
Charter and small-boat operators
Boat charters live and die by utilisation — an empty hull costs nearly as much to run as a full one. Adding Adventure Free as a channel puts your departures in front of travellers you'd never reach with your own marketing budget, and the shared availability means a charter sold there instantly blocks the slot everywhere else.
Multi-day tour operators
For Fraser Island or Red Centre itineraries, guests want the full picture before committing — itinerary, inclusions, reviews. Adventure Free's listing format is built for exactly that, and once the guest books, TicketingHub tracks the party through your manifest for every day of the trip.
How to connect
The setup follows TicketingHub's standard OTA pattern. First add a wholesale rate to the products you want to distribute. Then create a reseller record for Adventure Free under Resellers and assign the rate to it. Finally, create a channel named for the OTA, add the products it may sell, and save the channel's credentials — the access token is what links the two systems. Contact your TicketingHub account manager or support to enable the Adventure Free channel and confirm the mapping on their side.
To confirm everything is flowing, make a test booking on the OTA up to the passenger-details step and check that a pending order shows up in your Orders list with the reseller name attached.
Frequently asked questions
Is Adventure Free only for adventure operators?
The name leans adventurous, but the site covers mainstream Australian tourism — reef trips, island tours, whale watching, charters and more. If your product appeals to travellers exploring Australia, it belongs on the list.
Will discount-led bookings undercut my direct prices?
You decide the rate the channel sells at when you set up the wholesale rate, and you choose which products are on the channel at all. Many operators use OTA channels for specific departures or seasons and keep the rest direct.
How do Adventure Free bookings reach my staff?
They appear in TicketingHub like any other booking — on the dashboard, in Orders, and on the daily manifest your guides and crew work from, tagged with the reseller name so you always know the source.
What does the integration cost?
Commission on sales is agreed directly between you and Adventure Free. For TicketingHub's own pricing, talk to our team — it depends on your plan and volume.
Can I disconnect later?
Yes. Channels can be paused or removed from your dashboard, and existing bookings already in your system stay there.
Can hotels and local partners resell my tours as well?
Yes — Adventure Free is one channel among many. TicketingHub also supports commission and wholesale resellers with their own portal login, affiliate links or a white-labelled reseller widget, so hotel concierges and local partners can book against the same live availability as your OTA channels. Everything still lands in the one dashboard.
Curious what your calendar looks like with an extra Australian sales channel switched on? Try us out by booking a free demo today.
