Credit For Future Tours is the functionality that allows us to offer travelers the option to keep a credit on file until they are ready to re-book their tour.
TourRadar has developed a system that enables Operators to offer travelers Credit for Future Tours for payments they have already made so they can re-book their travel at a later date instead of immediately cancelling their plans. (Note: The amount credited to the travelers will be no more than the funds they have already paid and the traveler can only use the funds to re-book with your brand).
How it works
- In the Booking Conversation Page (BCP) when a traveler requests to cancel their booking with you or if you have cancelled a departure, if you choose to do so, you can offer them the option of taking their ’Credit for Future Tours' to travel at a later date instead of paying a cancellation fee or offering a refund right away
- The more flexible you are, the more likely a traveler will not want to cancel. In order to apply a Credit for Future Tour to a booking, you should decide in which cases you will provide a credit on file to the traveler
Any or all of them can apply to your brand:
- If a traveler has already made full payment and wants to cancel a tour you are still operating
- If the traveler has only made a deposit payment and wants to cancel a tour you are still operating
- If you as the operator are postponing the trip and the traveler has only paid the deposit
- If you as the operator are postponing the trip and the traveler has already made full payment
- As the Operator, in the BCP you will need to confirm you are able to offer the Credit for Future Tour and the terms and conditions. We have drafted some standard terms and conditions which you can review and adapt to your own purposes or you can provide your own terms and conditions - it all depends on what you want to offer your travelers
- Once you have confirmed these details the traveler will have to agree to these terms and conditions. Once they agree the booking will automatically be transferred to Credit for Future Tour. We will place all of the funds paid on to our Credit for Future Tour feature which holds the funds secure for the traveler to use with your brand in the future
- Once the traveler has decided on a new travel date, the traveler will request the booking through the same BCP they had for their original booking so you will not lose any previous communication with the traveler. Our Operator Support Team can assist you and your teams in updating the BCP to show the new tour and departure dates the traveler is requesting and then the system will work as per normal bookings
This is an ‘opt-in’ feature. You do not have to use it as we understand that it won’t suit all Tour Operators and their specific contracting arrangements but is a proactive measure we’ve taken to encourage travelers to postpone their travels with operators instead of cancelling them.