WP Travel Engine – Best Travel Booking WordPress Plugin

WP Travel Engine is the best travel booking WordPress plugin to create SEO-friendly travel booking websites.

We created WP Travel Engine, a travel WordPress plugin, to help every travel website owner to create travel and tour booking websites quickly, and increase bookings, inquiries and Average Order Value (AOV).

WP Travel Engine has everything you need to create a full-fledged travel website and start selling – from creating complete itineraries to collecting payments from your customers.

CHECK THE DEMO OF THE WP TRAVEL ENGINE

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THE KEY TO ANY GOOD TRAVEL BOOKING WEBSITE IS

➜ An easy-to-use itinerary builder
➜ Advanced Search Engine
➜ Ability to offer different packages and sell more (group discount, extra services)
➜ SEO-friendly features, including Schema (microdata) integration
➜ Smooth and progressive booking process
➜ Supports a wide range of payment
➜ Guests / Travelers Dashboard
➜ Features to build trust with the guests (reviews, social proof)

WP Travel Engine gives you everything you need to create a wholesome tour booking website and sell more with less effort.

EXTEND FEATURES WITH ADD-ONS

WP Travel Engine plugin has many add-ons to extend your website features and offer a smooth booking experience to your guests. See the features and understand why WP Travel Engine is possibly the best travel and tour booking plugin for WordPress.

User Experience

• Trip Fixed Starting Dates — You can add departure dates and times to all the tours. In addition, you can create different travel packages (budget, luxury, etc.). Then, the guests can search for the tours according to their travel date plan and book them.
• Advanced Itinerary Builder — You can create an enriched itinerary with a text editor, meals, duration, accommodation, altitude chart, and gallery, among other features.
• Per Trip Emails — You can create custom emails according to trips, making your emails feel personal and relevant.
• Form Editor — You can edit and customize the forms to offer a personalized experience.
• Email Customizer — You can create customizable and personalized email templates for booking and payment notifications that reflect your brand’s unique identity.
• Currency Converter — It automatically converts the tour price to local currency by detecting the guests’ location.
• Trip Weather Forecast — You can add weather forecast information to each trip.

Upsell (Increase Average Order Value)

• Group Discount — The ability to offer group discounts can help increase revenue by increasing the average order value (AOV). Group Discount add-on encourages more people to book trips, leading to higher AOV. Additionally, this feature can help you fill up trip dates that might otherwise be empty.
• Extra Services — You can sell additional services to the guests, such as airport pickup/drop, room upgrades and so on, which will help increase the average order value (AOV).

Marketing

• Partial Payment — You can set an upfront payment (percentage or fixed amount) to tours. Guests can make some amount upfront while booking a tour and the remaining amount later.
• User History — This add-on will help you keep track of your guests’ booking journey so that you can see which pages they visited before booking and how much time they spent on each page. You can use this information to make informed decisions about how to build more trust and influence the booking decision.
• Trips Embedder — This feature allows you to embed your trips in your website’s blog posts and others (such as an influencer or affiliate marketer). By embedding your trip in high-traffic blog posts, you can bring traffic to your trip pages from various sources and increase your bookings.

Lead Capture

• Itinerary Downloader — The add-on automatically creates tour brochures (PDF) which guests can download and read offline. It saves time and money on design costs! Guests can download the brochure by providing an email address (or without).
• File Downloads — You can add downloadable files to trips for guests to download. Guests can provide an email address (optional) to receive the downloadable file. In addition, you can capture leads by requiring an email address to download the files.

Conversion

• Legal Documents — Allows you to add physical and legal documents to the site. Display them on pages, posts, or widgets using shortcodes for users to view or download.
• Trip Reviews — Allows guests to leave a review on the website. It helps build trust among the guests and also helps increase bookings.
• Trip Fixed Starting Dates Countdown — You can add a countdown timer for the trip starting date and create urgency for booking.
• Social Proof — It leverages social proof to increase the conversion by letting your guests know that others have bought trips from you. Research shows that social proof can increase conversion.

Automation

• Zapier — You can integrate WP Travel Engine with the Zapier automation platform

PAYMENT GATEWAYS SUPPORTED

WP Travel Engine plugin supports all major payment gateways for maximum booking.

WooCommerce Payment

It supports payments from different payment gateways that WooCommerce supports. WooCommerce is the most popular plugin for creating an online shop and supports almost all the payment gateways worldwide. That means WP Travel Engine likely supports your local payment gateway.

Other Payment Gateway Add-ons

• Stripe Payment Gateway (International)
• Paypal Express Checkout Payment Gateway (International)
• Authorize.net Payment Gateway (International)
• PayFast Payment Gateway (South Africa)
• Himalayan Bank Payment Gateway (Nepal)
• Midtrans Payment Gateway (Indonesia)
• PayU Money Payment Gateway (India)
• PayU Biz Payment Gateway (India)
• PayHere Payment Gateway (Sri Lanka)
• We Travel Integration (Globally)

WP Travel Engine also supports PayPal Standard, Book Now Pay Later, Direct Bank Transfer and Check payments methods.

FREE TRAVEL BOOKING THEMES COMPATIBLE WITH WP TRAVEL ENGINE

• Travel Monster by WP Travel Engine
• Travel Agency by Rara Themes
• Travel Booking by WP Travel Engine
• Travel Muni by WP Travel Engine
• Tour Operator by Rara Themes
• WP Tour Package by Rara Themes
• Travel Explorer by WP Travel Engine
• Prime Travel by WP Travel Engine
• Travel Tour by The Bootstrap Themes

PREMIUM TRAVEL BOOKING THEMES COMPATIBLE WITH WP TRAVEL ENGINE

• Travel Monster Pro by WP Travel Engine
• Travel Agency Pro by Rara Themes
• Travel Booking Pro by WP Travel Engine
• Travel Muni Pro by WP Travel Engine
• Travel Tour Pro by The Bootstrap Themes

WP TRAVEL ENGINE FEATURES

1. Unlimited Travel Packages — There is no limitation on the number of tours you can create and sell. Easily add tour details, gallery, itinerary, regular price, sales price, duration, trip facts, FAQs and the cost included and excluded.
2. Advanced Trip Search and Filter — Use the existing search filters or create custom filters to let your customers find the matching trip based on the destination, budget, duration, activities, trip types, etc.
3. Smart Travel Booking Process — The trip booking process is smooth, quick and smart. The price automatically gets adjusted based on the number of people selected. In addition, the booking form only includes the necessary fields, which results in faster booking and more sales!
4. Payment Processing — WP Travel Engine supports a wide range of payment gateways. Your customers can book online, and you can receive payment quickly.
5. Progress Bar — WP Travel Engine comes with a beautiful progress bar. The progress bar visually represents how much progress a guest has made toward booking a tour. Research has shown progress bar to increase booking and sales.
6. Enquiry Form — WP Travel Engine includes an enquiry form on the trip page so that customers can easily find the form, fill it out and contact you. You can now get more enquiries about your travel packages.
7. Booking Email Notification — You can customize the message that your customer receives when they book a trip. Also, every time a traveller books a trip on your website, you too will receive an email notification with all the booking details.
8. Booking Details — The booking information is all saved on your website with all the details of the travellers. You are just a few clicks away whenever you need any booking details or information.
9. Discount Coupon — You can create different coupons to offer discount to customers and entice them to book.
10. Create More Tabs — There already are four tabs (Overview, Itinerary, Costs and FAQs) on each page. If you need more tabs, easily create them and even change their order!
11. Unlimited Trip Facts — You can create unlimited trips ‘Facts’ such as group size, meals, accommodation, the best time to visit and so on, and then add them to different trips.
12. Destination Page — You can easily create destination pages. For example, London, USA and Nepal. So whenever a traveller visits a particular destination page (for example, Nepal), the traveller can see all the trips that belong to that destination.
13. Activities Page — You can create different activities page such as hiking, sightseeing tours, mountain biking, skiing and so on. So when a customer visits your website, they can see the various activities that you offer and trip associated with them. For example, if customers visit a hiking activity page, they will see all the trips associated with hiking.
14. Trip Type Page — You can categorize the trips according to their types. For example, you can create trip types like dog-friendly, child-friendly, budget travel, nature walk and weekend trips. So when customers visit the trip type page (for example, dog-friendly), they will see all the dog-friendly trips.
15. Currency — You can also choose the currency in which you want to sell your trip package.

MORE FEATURES

• Pricing for adults, children, etc. (pricing category)
• Group booking
• Minimum and maximum age
• Duration
• Sales price
• Trip code
• Trip highlights
• Cut-off time
• Minimum and maximum participants
• Cost includes and excludes
• Photo gallery
• Video gallery
• Map
• FAQs
• Booking details
• Inquiries details
• Customer details
• Customer onboarding process
• Email tags for booking and inquiries emails
• Currencies support
• Edit booking button
• Featured Trips

TRAVEL SEO FEATURES (Schema Markup)

WP Travel Engine supports travel schema markup (JSON-LD format). Schema markup helps search engines understand your website content better. It converts unstructured data into structured data, making search engine crawlers crawl your website better. It improves organic visibility and ranking.

WP Travel Engine passes Schema Markup Validator Test and Rich Schema Test to give your website a competitive SEO advantage.

CUSTOMIZATION AND FLEXIBILITY

WP Travel Engine is flexible and easily customizable. There are several filters and hooks for developers to extend the plugin and customize it as needed.

Translation Ready
The plugin is entirely translation ready. So feel free to translate your website into any language.

Multilingual
WP Travel Engine is compatible with WPML and Polylang, the two most popular multilingual translation plugins. Using WP Travel Engine, you can easily create your website in multiple languages to cater to travelers in several languages and gain a competitive edge.

WP TRAVEL ENGINE SHORTCODES

WP Travel Engine provides various shortcodes that you can use to display trips and itineraries, destinations, activities and so on.

GUTENBERG BLOCKS

WP Travel Engine provides six blocks for Gutenberg in the core plugin.

The blocks includes are:

• Trips — You can display trips according to conditions (featured, latest, on sales and custom selection) and choose from four layouts and other filters.
• Destinations — You can display Destinations according to many filters and choose from three layouts.
• Trip Types — You can display Trip Types according to many filters and choose from three layouts.
• Activities — You can display Activities according to many filters and choose from three layouts.
• Trip Search — You can display the Search filter horizontally or vertically and add search criteria such as destination, duration, price, activities, etc.
• Terms — You can display trip categories created under Custom Filters, like Destinations, Activities and Trip Types.

ELEMENTOR WIDGETS

WP Travel Engine offers 24 widgets for Elementor via the WP Travel Engine – Elementor Widgets plugin.

How to use WP Travel Engine Elementor Widgets

Creating Single Trip Pages with WP Travel Engine Elementor Widgets

• Trips — Display trips dynamically based on conditions (featured, latest, on sales and custom selection), with five layout options and numerous filters to choose from.
• Destinations — Display your destinations with three distinct layouts and numerous filtering options.
• Trip Types — Highlight different trip types using three layouts and numerous filtering options.
• Activities — Display your activities with three distinct layouts and numerous filtering options.
• Trip Search — Display the search filter in either horizontal or vertical orientation, and enhance it with search criteria like destination, duration, price, and activities.

Elementor widgets for trip pages:
* Trip Booking — Showcase essential trip details, including price, discounts, highlights, availability button and enquiry forms.
* Trip Breadcrumbs — Guide users seamlessly through your website using intuitive trip breadcrumbs.
* Trip Carousel — Display multiple tour images attractively in a carousel format.
* Trip Cost Excludes — Display the trip exclusions using customizable icons and styles.
* Trip Cost Includes — Display the trip inclusions using customizable icons and styles.
* Trip Duration — Display trip duration in vertical or horizontal layouts.
* Trip Enquiry — Display the trip enquiry form with options to hide title, labels, and trip name while customizing its content colors and background.
* Trip Facts — Display trip facts with customizable icons, positioned left, right, or top, and arranged in up to four columns.
* Trip FAQs — Address common queries with an FAQ section featuring customizable title tags and distinct style options.
* Trip Highlights — Showcase your trip highlights in an eye-catching format.
* Trip Itinerary — Offer detailed trip itineraries with expandable options and customizable icons.
* Trip Map — Integrate interactive maps with adjustable location, zoom, and height settings.
* Trip Overview — Display a concise overview of your trip for quick insights.
* Trip Title — Customize trip titles with varying heading levels and alignment options.
* Trip Related Trips — Showcase other related trips with three distinct layouts and filters.

The following widgets require premium add-ons of WP Travel Engine plugin:
* Trip Ratings — Display ratings with adjustable star gaps and options to control star and text visibility.
* Trip Review Form — Add the trip review form with varying heading levels and customization options.
* Trip Reviews — Show trip reviews with options to hide elements like average rating, overall rating, reviews, review gallery, date of experience, etc.
* Trip Fixed Starting Date — Highlight specific departure dates with customizable labels …