Aussie Bucket List Integration
Sell more indirect bookings by expanding your Australian tours with the Aussie Bucket List. Via TicketingHub, integrate with the best OTAs in the Australian market.
A 100% Aussie-owned channel for Australian tours
Aussie Bucket List is made "by Australians, in Australia, and for Australians" — and that positioning is exactly why it's worth an Australian operator's attention. Global OTAs are good at reaching inbound tourists; a home-grown travel community reaches the locals: the weekend-away crowd, the school-holiday planners, the people ticking off their own country. Connecting Aussie Bucket List through TicketingHub adds that domestic audience to your sales mix while everything still runs from one dashboard.
What is Aussie Bucket List?
Since 2015, Aussie Bucket List has been an avid Australian travel community exploring the country's top experiences, destinations and events. Its passion for Australian tourism has built a following of thousands of local and international travellers through its social media pages — which makes it less like a search engine and more like a recommendation feed with reach. Destinations it covers include:
Community audiences convert differently from search audiences. A traveller who lands on your listing from a search engine is comparing options; one who arrives from a community they follow has effectively been given a recommendation. That trust transfer is why social-first channels often convert well despite sending fewer clicks than the giants.
- Sydney Harbour Bridge and Sydney Opera House
- The Great Barrier Reef
- The Blue Mountains and New South Wales
- Western Australia and the Northern Territory
- Phillip Island's Penguin Parade
- Byron Bay, the Southern Ocean and the Southern Lights
- National parks across the country
How TicketingHub connects you
The connection runs through TicketingHub's channel manager. Your availability is shared with Aussie Bucket List in real time, and bookings made there flow straight into your TicketingHub dashboard — the same place your website widget, walk-in and other OTA bookings already live. There's no back-and-forth between platforms, no allocation spreadsheets, and no risk of the same spot selling twice, because every channel draws down from one shared count.
It's worth being clear about what this replaces. Without a channel manager, working with a listing partner means allocation emails, manual confirmations, and a nagging fear that the same seat is promised twice. With it, the partnership is operationally identical to your own website widget: inventory in, bookings out, one source of truth.
You choose which products go on the channel and at what rate; commission arrangements are agreed between you and Aussie Bucket List directly.
Ways operators use the channel
Capturing the domestic weekend market
Locals book differently from tourists — shorter lead times, repeat visits, and strong response to social content. A community channel like Aussie Bucket List reaches Australians planning short breaks in their own state, filling capacity in months when international traffic thins out.
Launching a new experience
New products need discovery, and social-first communities are built for it. Operators use the channel to get early bookings and word-of-mouth for a new tour while their own SEO and reviews are still warming up.
Event and seasonal listings
Aussie Bucket List also covers events, which suits operators with seasonal spectacles — whale season departures, penguin parades, vivid-season cruises. Because the channel manager keeps availability live, you can list aggressive capacity for the season and let it sell down safely across every channel at once.
How to get connected
In TicketingHub, OTA-style channels follow one pattern: add a wholesale rate to the products you want to distribute, create a reseller record for Aussie Bucket List and assign the rate, then create a channel listing the products they can sell and share the channel's access token. To switch the channel on, contact your TicketingHub account manager or support — we'll walk through the product mapping with you and run a test booking to confirm a pending order lands in your dashboard with the reseller name attached.
Frequently asked questions
Is Aussie Bucket List an OTA or a marketing site?
A bit of both — it grew from a social travel community into one of Australia's recognised experience listing sites. From your side it behaves like any reseller channel: it brings bookings, and TicketingHub files them with the rest.
Do I need to manage a separate calendar for their bookings?
No. That's the point of the channel manager — one calendar, one manifest, every channel drawing from the same live availability.
My tours target international visitors. Is a domestic channel still useful?
Usually yes — Aussie Bucket List's following includes international travellers too, and a domestic base smooths the seasonality that inbound-only operators feel hardest. Diversified channels mean steadier calendars.
Who sets the commission?
You and Aussie Bucket List agree the commercial terms between you. TicketingHub supplies the connection and the reporting that shows what the channel earns you.
Can I pause the channel during peak season?
Yes — you control which products are on the channel and can remove or re-add them whenever your capacity strategy changes.
How quickly do bookings show up in TicketingHub?
Straight away — channel bookings flow into your Orders list as they happen, tagged with the reseller name. When you first connect, we recommend a quick test booking on the channel side to watch a pending order appear; after that, it simply runs.
Learn what a home-grown channel could add to your Aussie tours — book a free demo with us.
