Tours

Tours are itinerary templates. Build one once, and use it as the starting point for any number of trips.

When to use a tour

Set-departure group tours. "8-Day Classic Tanzania, departing first Saturday of each month". Build the trip once as a tour, then clone it into a real itinerary for each departure.
Frequently sold itineraries. "5D/4N Honeymoon to Zanzibar + Ngorongoro". You sell this every week. Tour template saves typing.
Brochure trips. Sample itineraries you publish on your website. Build them as tours; export to PDF.

Creating a tour

Two ways:

From scratch. Open Tours then New tour. Build day-by-day like an itinerary, but with placeholder dates.
From an existing itinerary. On any itinerary, click Save as tour template. The trip is cloned into a tour with client-specific data stripped.

Tour fields

A tour is structurally like an itinerary, with two differences:

No fixed start date. Days are relative to "day 1".
No client. Tours are reusable across clients.

Everything else (accommodations, activities, vehicles, transfers, pricing) carries through.

Cloning a tour into an itinerary

When you start a new itinerary, the create dialog has a From tour option. Pick the tour, set the actual start date, set the pax count, pick the client, and click create. Ratiba clones the tour's days into a fresh itinerary, applies current rate-card prices, and lands you in the day-by-day builder ready to customize.

Subsequent edits to the itinerary do not affect the tour template. They diverge as soon as you clone.

Publishing tours

You can publish a tour as a public page on your subdomain (e.g. <your-subdomain>.ratiba.io/tours/8-day-classic-tanzania). This is useful for:

A brochure section on your website (link out to Ratiba-hosted pages).
SEO landing pages for specific itineraries.
Quick share with leads who want a "sample itinerary".

Published tours show pricing in indicative terms (from $X per person) since no real dates or pax are set.

Maintenance

Tours go stale as accommodation rates, season dates, and content change. We recommend a quarterly review:

Open each tour.
Click Refresh from current rates to pull latest pricing.
Adjust dates if seasons have shifted.

Tours with rates older than 6 months show a warning in the tours list.