Selling experiences where WA travellers actually stay
Western Australia's holiday traffic does not move through big city hotels alone — a huge share of it rolls between caravan parks and holiday parks along the coast and through the outback. Summerstar Tourist Parks sits at the heart of that traffic. For tour and activity operators in regional WA, being sold through Summerstar means reaching travellers at the very place they stop, unpack and start asking what there is to do nearby.
With TicketingHub's channel manager behind the connection, those bookings arrive in the same dashboard as your website and walk-up sales, drawn from the same live availability — so there is no double-booking and nothing to re-type.
What is Summerstar Tourist Parks?
Summerstar Tourist Parks is a family-owned business that has been welcoming travellers for more than 20 years. Its passion for serving guests goes hand in hand with promoting Western Australia as a destination, and its parks sit in some of the state's most picturesque locations:
- Broome Caravan Park in the Kimberley
- Walpole, on the shores of the Nornalup-Walpole Inlet
- Tom Price, nestled at the base of Mount Nameless in the Pilbara
- Horrocks and Jurien Bay, with views over the sparkling Coral Coast
- Esperance Bay Holiday Park on the south coast
- Geraldton and Margaret River, each within walking distance of town
Together the parks host families, road-trippers and working travellers year-round — an audience that is already in-destination and actively looking for things to do. Through the integration, tour operators around Australia can sell their tours and experiences on Summerstar's storefronts, reaching guests at the point of stay and lifting brand visibility along some of WA's busiest self-drive routes.
How the integration works
TicketingHub connects Summerstar as a sales channel through its channel manager:
- Live availability — the channel sells from your real-time calendar, so every space it offers genuinely exists.
- One dashboard — channel bookings land alongside your online, in-person and other third-party sales in a single Orders view and manifest.
- No overbooking — when a departure fills anywhere, it closes everywhere at once.
- No re-keying — guest details flow through automatically.
In other words, you get OTA-style distribution and your booking software working as one system, rather than juggling separate tools.
Who benefits most
Operators near a Summerstar park
If you run tours, hire equipment or operate an attraction near Broome, Esperance, Margaret River, Jurien Bay or any of the park locations, Summerstar guests are quite literally sleeping next door. A listing turns that proximity into bookings.
Experiences built for road-trippers and families
Park guests skew towards self-drive travellers and families on multi-stop itineraries. Experiences that suit them — wildlife encounters, fishing charters, four-wheel-drive tours, snorkelling trips, family-friendly attractions — fit this channel naturally.
Regional operators who cannot rely on walk-in traffic
In regional WA there is no crowd of passing tourists outside your door. Distribution through the places travellers actually stay is one of the few reliable ways to be discovered — and with the channel manager, it costs you no extra administration. Because the parks sit along established self-drive routes, a single listing can also reach the same traveller at several stops on their journey.
Getting connected
Contact your TicketingHub account manager or support to have the Summerstar channel enabled. On the dashboard side the pattern is the standard reseller flow: add a wholesale rate to the products you want distributed, create a reseller profile, then create a channel containing those products. We will help you verify the connection with a test booking, which should appear in your Orders list tagged with the reseller name — once it does, the channel is live and every subsequent booking flows in the same way.
