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One screen — every booking source, every channel. Dashboards
Your Numbers, One Simple Screen

One simple screen that tells you exactly what to do this week.

Most travel business owners check five different tabs every Monday — and none of them agree. We put everything on one simple screen. How many bookings. Where they came from. What each booking costs you. What is working. What is not. And right at the top, three plain-English jobs for this week. No more guessing.

14Data sources unified, average
4–8wkFrom kickoff to live dashboard
±3%Channelreturn on what you spendaccuracy at sign-off
What you actually get

Six simple parts that help you grow — every week

Not a pretty picture. A weekly plan for your travel business.

This Week, Do This

Right at the top of your screen. Three or four clear jobs for this week: stop wasting money on this ad, call these 247 quiet customers, push this destination on Instagram. Made from your real numbers, checked by us every week.

Digital marketing →

Where Your Bookings Come From

One simple view: Google ads money, Facebook ads money, the chunk booking sites take, your team's time, repeat customers, and how much each customer is worth over time. Side by side. Easy to read.

Top of Google →

What Each Customer And Booking Costs You

Two numbers most travel business owners cannot find. We work them out — for each channel, each trip, each market. If costs jump up, you get a warning the same day. Use it to stop bad campaigns before they bleed your money.

Google ads →

Bookings From You vs Booking Sites

See in real time — how many bookings come straight to you versus through Booking.com and Expedia. See exactly how much money you lose to their cut. Watch direct bookings go up as we work together.

Travel agencies →

How Much Each Customer Is Really Worth

How often customers come back. Which trips bring them back the most. Which months they leave good reviews. The picture your accountant needs and most travel owners never see.

VIP customer service →

How Smoothly Your Business Runs

How long quotes take. How quickly partners confirm. How many balances get paid on time. How many nearly-customers you win back. Because broken systems eat all your marketing wins.

Bookings happen automatically →
How we build it

Four simple steps. Live in 4 to 8 weeks.

A simple screen is only useful if the numbers underneath are right. So we always clean up the numbers first — before we paint the screen.

Step 1 — We Clean Up Your Numbers

Weeks 1 to 2. We look at every place your numbers live today. We fix the messy bits. We check the last 90 days against your real bookings — so every number on your screen will be true.

Step 2 — We Put Everything In One Place

Weeks 3 to 4. We bring every number — bookings, ads, website, customer list, payments — into one place. Updates daily. Or every hour for busy travel businesses.

Step 3 — We Build Your Simple Screen

Weeks 5 to 6. We design the screen so it is easy to read. We set up your weekly "do this" jobs. Different views for the owner, the marketing person and the sales team — each sees what they need.

Step 4 — We Train You And Walk With You

Weeks 7 to 8. We train your team in plain English. We meet you every week to walk through the screen and your jobs for the week. You will know exactly what is working and what to do next.

Why this matters

The cost of running travel sales blind

73%
Of travel founders cannot accurately state what each booking costs you by channel
14
Average data sources unified in a TravelTradeInsights travel dashboard
5.2hrs
Average time per week founders spend assembling Monday meeting numbers
42%
Of marketing spend in travel goes to channels with no clearreturn on what you spendattribution
±3%
Channelreturn on what you spendaccuracy we tune to before signing off the build
3.4×
Faster bad-campaign-detection-to-pause cycle with weekly action cards
28%
Average marketing-spend efficiency lift in year one after unified dashboard
100%
Of our dashboards include an automatic weekly action card
The metric stack

What ends up on a travel founder's dashboard

Metric Source(s) Refresh Owner
Weekly Action CardAll layers, AI-summarisedWeeklyFounder / CEO
Cost per Enquiry by channelGoogle Ads, Meta Ads, customer follow-up systemDailyCMO
Cost per Booking by channelAbove + booking systemDailyCMO / Founder
Direct vs booking website shareBooking engine + booking website feedsDailyFounder
lost revenue from booking website feesbooking website feeds + accountingWeeklyFinance
Repeat booking ratecustomer follow-up system + booking systemWeeklyCX lead
customer happiness score trendPost-trip surveyWeeklyCX lead
Quote-to-confirm timeBooking engineDailyOps
Sales rep pipeline & velocitycustomer follow-up systemDailySales manager
Google and AI how often you show up on GoogleGSC, Ahrefs, AI-search probesWeeklySEO lead
Customer customer lifetime value by cohortcustomer follow-up system + booking system + accountingMonthlyFounder / Finance
Google Analytics-only vs unified travel analytics

Why Google Analytics alone is not enough for travel

Google Analytics / single-source analytics

  • Tells you about sessions, not bookings
  • booking website bookings completely invisible
  • Cannot tie revenue back to source — only conversion events
  • Repeat-customer customer lifetime value impossible to calculate
  • Cross-device journeys broken
  • No notion of consultant time as a cost input
  • Reporting still requires manual spreadsheet stitching
  • Numbers disagree across tabs — finance, marketing, ops all see different truth

TravelTradeInsights travel dashboard

  • Revenue-first — bookings, not sessions, are the unit of measurement
  • booking website feeds (Booking.com Affiliate, Expedia EPS, Viator, GYG) ingested daily
  • Full revenue attribution across ads, SEO, booking websites, direct, repeat and referral
  • Cohort customer lifetime value calculated from real booking + accounting data
  • Stitched cross-device, cross-channel journeys via customer follow-up system-level ID resolution
  • Consultant time, the cut booking websites take and ad spend all costed comparably
  • Single source of truth — finance, marketing, ops, sales see same numbers
  • Weekly action card turns dashboards into instructions
The stack we work with

Dashboards on tools that fit your data, not ours

Visualisation Looker Studio Looker (Google Cloud) Metabase Power BI Tableau Hex Mode
Warehouses BigQuery Snowflake Postgres Redshift DuckDB
moving and cleaning data / pipelines Fivetran Stitch Airbyte dbt Custom Python (Airflow)
Travel data sources Google Analytics Google Ads Meta Ads TikTok Ads Search Console Booking.com Affiliate Expedia EPS Viator GetYourGuide Rezdy / Bokun / FareHarbor Tourplan / Travelopia HubSpot / Salesforce / Zoho Aircall / CallRail / Exotel WhatsApp Business API
Real-world examples

Three travel brands, three dashboard transformations

destination travel company · Riyadh

Sahara Voyage

Six data sources, three of them in PDFs from suppliers. Founder spent 8 hours a week assembling Monday numbers. Built a Metabase dashboard on a Postgres warehouse, daily refresh, with action-card layer.

After 90 days: Founder Monday prep down to 20 minutes. Discovered that 38% of "Booking.com" attributed revenue was actually first-touch organic — rebalanced spend accordingly. Marketing efficiency up 31%.

Saudi Arabia →
Tour operator · London

Lotus Adventures UK

Already on Power BI but with a single Google Analytics source — invisible booking website bookings making 41% of revenue look unattributed. Rebuilt with Looker on BigQuery, all sources unified including Viator and GetYourGuide.

After 4 months: True channelreturn on what you spendvisible for the first time. Cancelled USD 42k/yr Bing Ads spend that was producing zero. Reinvested into a tighter Google Ads campaign that delivered 2.3× the bookings.

Luxury travel →
Outbound · Singapore

Bluepine Tours SG

Used Looker Studio but it broke weekly because of UTM chaos. Did a full UTM and customer follow-up system-field cleanup, rebuilt the dashboard with role-based views for founder, CMO and ops, plus a weekly action card.

After 8 weeks: Dashboard hasn't broken once. Pause-failing-campaign-cycle dropped from 11 days to 3. Cost per booking down 22% in the first quarter post-launch.

Singapore →
"I used to walk into Monday with five tabs open and a spreadsheet I built at 11pm Sunday. Now I open one dashboard, read the action card, and the meeting is done in 25 minutes. We have made better marketing decisions in 90 days than in the previous two years."
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Fatima N. Founder · Inbound destination travel company · Riyadh (Sahara Voyage)

The point is decisions, not dashboards.

We do not build pretty charts to impress your investors. We build the operating layer your team runs the business on — every week, every Monday, every quarter. The action card is the bit that matters; everything else is supporting evidence.

Transformation Guide →

Case studies →

Frequently asked

What travel founders ask before building

Why do I need a travel-specific simple screen showing your numbers? Google Analytics is free.
Google Analytics tells you about website sessions. It does not tell you what each booking costs you by source market, the cut booking websites take leakage by month, repeat-customer customer lifetime value by package type, consultant time per closed booking, or what to actually do this week. A travel simple screen showing your numbers merges Google Analytics with your customer follow-up system, booking system, ad platforms and booking website feeds so the numbers in your Monday meeting are revenue numbers, not session numbers. For most travel businesses, the gap between "knowing how many people visited" and "knowing where the next booking will come from" is the difference between profitable growth and slow reliant on booking websites decline.
Which tool do you build dashboards in — Looker, Looker Studio, Metabase, Power BI or Tableau?
Depends on stack and stage. Looker Studio for small operators where free matters and the data already lives in Google Sheets / Google Analytics / Ads. Metabase for mid-market operators wanting open-source and on-premise control, especially in regulated markets. Looker (Google Cloud) and Power BI for enterprise and multi-brand groups. Tableau for heavy data-science teams or anyone with existing Tableau licences. Hex and Mode for ready-to-buy customer-savvy analytics teams. We recommend based on your data stack, governance needs and team skills — not on what we sell.
What is a "weekly action card" and why do you build one?
It is a literal card at the top of your dashboard that says: "This week — pause the Instagram campaign for Bali (CPL up 38%), redirect that budget to the Singapore Google Search campaign, and re-engage the 247 stale luxury leads in the customer follow-up system with a Maldives package." Most travel founders are drowning in metrics and starving for instructions. The action card turns dashboards into operating instructions. It is generated automatically from anomaly-detection rules on the underlying data, then human-reviewed by our analyst weekly before publishing.
How do you handle attribution across paid, SEO, booking website and direct?
We deploy a unified seeing which ads brought you the customer using Google Analytics's data-driven attribution as a base, augmented with customer follow-up system-level multi-touch journey data and booking-website-feed ingestion. You see a single channel-ROI view where Google Ads spend, Meta Ads spend, SEO investment, the cut booking websites take and consultant time are compared against direct revenue, booking website revenue, repeat revenue and customer lifetime value — all in one place. Where consent allows, we also wire server-side tracking (Google Analytics server-side, Conversionconnection for Meta, Enhanced Conversions for Google) for more durable attribution post-cookie. See our customer follow-up system page for how this links into pipeline visibility.
What data sources can you pull in?
Google Analytics, Google Ads, Meta Ads, TikTok Ads, LinkedIn Ads, Bing Ads, Search Console, Booking.com Affiliate, Expedia EPS, Viator, GetYourGuide, Agoda where exposed, your direct booking system (Rezdy, Bokun, FareHarbor, Tourplan, Travelopia, custom), your customer follow-up system (HubSpot, Salesforce, Zoho, Pipedrive), call tracking (Aircall, CallRail, JustCall, Exotel), WhatsApp Businessconnection conversation data and your accounting tool (Xero, QuickBooks, Zoho Books) for COGS and net margin. If it has anconnection or a scheduled export, we ingest it. Whereconnections are absent, we automate the export-to-warehouse cycle.
How long does it take to build and what does it cost?
Typically 4–8 weeks. Build cost starts at USD 4,000 for a single-product operator with 3–5 data sources, USD 12,000+ for multi-product destination travel companies with 15+ sources and a custom one place where all your numbers live. Monthly running and tuning retainer from USD 450 covers data-pipeline monitoring, weekly action-card review by a TravelTradeInsights analyst, dashboard evolution and quarterly review with your team. Most clients see net-positive marketing-spend efficiency within 90 days of go-live.
What if my data is a mess — different formats, missing fields, inconsistent UTMs?
That is the normal starting state — and frankly if it were clean you would not need us. The first two weeks of any build are data cleanup: UTM standardisation across all paid channels, customer follow-up system custom-field hygiene, booking-engine field mapping, currency normalisation, timezone alignment and historical reconciliation against your accounting truth. We do not paint over messy data — we fix it at the source so every dashboard built on top is trustworthy. The cleanup phase usually saves more time per month than the dashboard itself produces.
Will my sales team and CMO see the same numbers?
Yes — that is the whole point. One source of truth for everyone. Role-based dashboard views: founders see the weekly action card and overall ROI, CMOs see channel performance and customer cost by channel, ops see SLA, supplier confirmation rates and balance collection, sales managers see pipeline by rep and conversion velocity, finance sees true gross margin per booking and the cut booking websites take leakage. Same underlying one place where all your numbers live, different lenses. The Monday meeting becomes one conversation about one set of numbers.
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"Monday prep down from 8 hours to 20 minutes. We have made better marketing decisions in 90 days than in the previous two years." — Founder, destination travel company, Riyadh

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