Most website builders are generalists: the same tool for restaurants, lawyers, and yoga studios. Gondola Travel is not. It builds and maintains websites specifically for tour operators — and TicketingHub has partnered with Gondola so that those websites do not just look the part, they sell. Together, the two platforms give an operator a professional website with a real booking engine behind it, without hiring a developer or learning web design.
What is Gondola Travel?
Gondola Travel is a website builder and CMS made for the tour and activity industry. Its pitch is simple: generating and maintaining a website is one of the most painful, least loved parts of running a tour business, so Gondola takes it off the operator's plate. Instead of fighting a generic site builder, operators get web design tools and templates shaped around how tours are actually presented and sold — itineraries, photos, schedules, and the trust signals travellers look for.
That focus matters. Plenty of operators still run on outdated software — or a phone and a paper diary — which is slow, error-prone, and invisible to the modern traveller who expects to browse and book online. A purpose-built website closes that gap.
Why TicketingHub partnered with Gondola
A beautiful website that cannot take bookings is a brochure. TicketingHub's partnership with Gondola Travel pairs Gondola's design tools with TicketingHub's booking platform, so an operator's site becomes a genuine sales channel: customers browse the tours Gondola presents so well, then book and pay on the spot through TicketingHub's embedded checkout widget — without being redirected away from the site.
- A professional tour website, designed and maintained without the operator becoming a webmaster.
- A booking widget embedded in that site, showing live availability and taking secure payment.
- Every booking flowing into one TicketingHub dashboard, alongside phone, walk-up, and OTA sales.
How the integration works
TicketingHub's checkout widget is a snippet of code embedded into your Gondola-built site. You create the widget in the TicketingHub dashboard — choosing which tours it sells, and styling its colours and fonts to match the design — then the snippet is placed on your booking pages. From then on, the website always shows real availability: when a departure fills up, whether from the website, a reseller, or a phone booking you keyed in yourself, the widget reflects it immediately. Overbooking simply stops being possible.
Launching your first real website
If you are moving from a Facebook page or a dated brochure site, the Gondola-plus-TicketingHub combination is a fast route to looking professional and selling online in one step. Gondola handles how the site looks and reads; TicketingHub handles schedules, capacities, payments, confirmations, and reminders. You handle the tours.
Replacing manual bookings
Operators who take bookings by phone and email spend hours each week on back-and-forth that a widget does silently. With the integration, customers book themselves in at any hour, automatic confirmation and reminder emails go out without you touching anything, and your morning manifest is already correct when you open the dashboard.
Growing beyond direct sales
When you are ready to add online travel agencies or local resellers, TicketingHub's channel manager shares your live availability with those channels too. The Gondola website, the OTAs, and the resellers all sell from one pool of inventory, and every booking lands in the same dashboard — no re-keying, no double-sold seats.
Setting it up
Start with a demo call so we can understand your tours and set up your products. In the TicketingHub dashboard you (or we, guiding you) create a checkout widget, pick the products, adjust the look and feel, and publish. The embed code then goes into your Gondola Travel site on the pages where customers should book. Because both platforms exist specifically for tour operators, the whole process is measured in days, not weeks — and both teams are used to working with non-technical business owners.
