Cut your OTA commissions. Fill the quiet mornings. Land $3,000+ corporate, wedding, and proposal bookings with a direct booking engine that stays yours.
Most balloon operators hand 25 to 30 percent of every seat to Viator, GetYourGuide, and Airbnb Experiences. They fight for visibility in the off season, never charge premium prices, and never own the customer. The OTA owns the email, the review, and the next booking. You just fly the trip.
You pull in $20,000 a month from your balloon operation. Beautiful. Now hand 25 percent of that to Viator, GetYourGuide, and Airbnb Experiences.
That is $5,000 every month walking out the door to platforms that own the customer, the email, the review, and the next booking.
Over a year? Sixty grand. Gone. Spent renting guests you should already own.
And while you pay that tax, you are stuck at a $300 to $640 ticket because corporate groups, wedding proposals, anniversary flights, and gift vouchers never even hear about you. The premium audience is searching. You are just not showing up where they look.
That is the gap we close.
We tear apart your booking funnel, ad accounts, and OTA mix, and put a dollar number on every leak.
Direct booking site, video sales letter landers, plus productized corporate, wedding, and gift voucher offers.
Meta, Google, and YouTube ads pointed at people already searching to fly in your region.
Weekly reporting, conversion sprints, and seasonal campaigns matched to the seats you can actually fill.
Illustrative targets from our playbooks. Your engagement gets its own forecast in week one.
Illustrative composites drawn from operator conversations and playbook outcomes.
"We cut Viator down to 22 percent of our bookings in one season. The direct funnel paid for itself in week three and I finally own the customer list."
"First corporate package sold at $4,200. I did not know that market even existed for us. Now it is a third of monthly revenue and the calendar fills weeks ahead."
"Tuesdays used to be dead. Now they are booked out by locals at full price. The off season offers Numan built quietly doubled our shoulder months."
We only take operators we know we can move. Fill the short form and you will land straight on Numan's calendar to book the call.
Fair. Most agencies sell you a 12-month retainer and a slide deck. We start with a 30-day Direct Booking Audit that pays for itself, so you see the work before you ever sign a long-term anything. Month-to-month after that. No lock-in, no jargon, no $4,000 invoices for traffic that never converts.
You don't have to. Your job is to fly. Ours is to fill the seats. You get one short call a fortnight and a one-page monthly report with the numbers that matter: direct bookings, OTA share, AOV, corporate pipeline. That's it.
We work with hot air balloon operators only. The same playbook that lifts a Hunter Valley operator lifts a Cappadocia, Napa, or Cairns operator, because the buyer behaviour is identical: people search 'balloon ride near me' and pick the first operator who looks credible. We bring case logs from comparable regions on the call.
Entry retainer pays itself back the moment 2 to 3 monthly bookings shift from Viator to your direct site. At $300 plus a seat and 25% commission, that's a few hundred dollars in saved commission per booking before we even count the new corporate or wedding revenue. We share full pricing on the call once we understand your volume.
Yes. The core engagement rebuilds your direct booking engine: the site, the offers, the ads, the retargeting, the review engine. OTAs drop from 70% of your revenue to a small share that you control on purpose, instead of an addiction you can't quit.
That is where the real money is. We design $3,000+ corporate team-building experiences and wedding or proposal packages, then run paid campaigns to people already searching for them. One corporate booking can equal a week of shared-seat revenue.
Yes. We work with operators in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, EU, Türkiye, and beyond. Paid platforms convert the same way anywhere English-speaking tourists are searching for an experience.
Yes. One operator per city. Once we sign you for your region, we will not work with your direct competitors there.
Book a free 30 minute strategy call. We will show you exactly where the leaks are in your funnel and the fastest way to plug them.