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Tour Operator Virtual Receptionist and Answering Service

Out guiding? Calls still answered.

Frontly answers every call while you're on the water or the trail, and takes the booking.

Ready-made workflow for your industryBookings taken 24/7Over 40 languagesCalls guests when plans change

HEAR IT FOR YOURSELF

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Call our AI agent right now. It handles a tour availability question and a meeting-point question the way it would for your business. No signup required.

It runs in your browser. Nothing to install, no number to give us.No signup, no card, no waiting on a sales rep.Interrupt it, change your mind, ask for a human. It is the live agent, not a recording.
Sample call
A call like the one you are about to make
  1. Frontly

    Thanks for calling. Would you like to book a tour?

  2. Caller

    Yes, the rainforest day tour on Thursday for four of us. Do you pick up from hotels, and what happens if it rains?

  3. Frontly

    We do hotel pickups from 7 in the morning. Light rain doesn't stop the tour, and if the weather is unsafe we move you to another day or give a full refund.

  4. Caller

    Great. Two adults, two kids, pickup from our hotel. I'm Greg.

  5. Frontly

    Thanks Greg. Would you like pickup around 7 or around 7:30?

  6. Caller

    Seven, please. My cell is 305-555-0162.

  7. Frontly

    You're booked for Thursday, two adults and two children, pickup around 7, and I have 305-555-0162.

Captured in your dashboard
Name
Greg
Type
Day tour, 2 adults + 2 children, hotel pickup
Time
Thursday, 7:00 AM pickup
Escalated
No
Frontly

Thanks for calling, Greg. Take care. Goodbye.

Your script, your appointment types and your escalation rules are yours to set in the visual builder.

The short answer

What is Frontly's tour operator virtual receptionist?

Frontly is an AI virtual receptionist and answering service for tour operators and attractions. It answers every call 24/7 while you guide, takes booking inquiries and group requests, answers meeting-point, what-to-bring and weather questions, and calls booked guests to confirm or tell them about a change, in more than 40 languages. Every call lands in your Frontly dashboard.

THE PROBLEM

The Guide Can't Answer. The Guest Calls Someone Else.

21x

better odds of qualifying a lead when the first contact comes within 5 minutes rather than 30. A guide on the water can't call back that fast, but Frontly answers every call.

Source: MIT / InsideSales Lead Response Study, 2007

23%

of 2,241 US companies audited never replied to a web inquiry at all. For an operator mid-tour, the answer has to come from someone other than the guide.

Source: Harvard Business Review, 2011 (US)

24/7

International guests call from other time zones, and last-minute bookers call after dinner. Frontly answers every call, every hour, holidays included.

HOW IT WORKS

No Disruption to Your Tours.

1

A New Number, or Your Own

Take a new local number from Frontly, or forward the line your guests already call. No hardware changes, and you keep answering when you can.

2

Customize Your Industry Workflow

Start from the prebuilt receptionist workflow and customize it in the visual builder. Add your tours, departure times, meeting points, group rules and weather policy, then test it before going live.

3

Go Live

Frontly answers every call, takes booking inquiries, answers guest questions, passes urgent day-of calls to your guide on duty, and calls booked guests when plans change.

WHAT FRONTLY HANDLES

Every Guest Call, Handled

From a family asking about Saturday to a tour group planner booking a day out, this tour operator virtual receptionist answers the calls you can't take while guiding. Every call captured in your Frontly dashboard.

Availability and bookings

Takes the tour, date, number of guests and contact details, and answers from the tour information you provide. Every booking inquiry lands in your dashboard with the full call transcript.

Meeting point and what to bring

Answers where to meet, what time to arrive, what to wear and bring, and accessibility and age questions, from the guest information you write once.

Weather questions

Answers "is it running today?" and "what if it's canceled?" from the weather policy and daily status you set, and sends anything unclear to your team.

Group and private bookings

Captures the date, group size, budget and requirements for school, corporate and private groups, then emails your team the summary or transfers the call.

International guests

Answers in the language you set for the agent, such as a dedicated Spanish or Japanese line, across more than 40 languages, so an overseas caller at night still gets an answer.

Day-of and urgent calls

Puts calls from a guest who is lost or running late straight through to your guide on duty, with a spoken briefing, and takes a message if nobody can answer.

Visual Workflow Builder

Script Your Booking Line Without Code

1

Start With a Workflow for Your Industry

Customize the prebuilt workflow in the visual builder. Add your tours, departure times and group rules to set exactly what the AI asks before it takes a booking inquiry.

2

Rules for Every Kind of Call

Route a group inquiry to your bookings lead, a lost guest to the guide on duty, and a simple availability question straight to a dashboard booking.

3

Guest Answers You Control

Write the answers for meeting point, what to bring, age limits and weather policy once. Decide which questions go to a person.

4

Change It Yourself

Update today's status, seasonal departure times and holiday hours any time in the visual builder, without waiting on us.

5

Branch by Season and Time of Day

Handle summer peaks, quiet midweek days and after-hours calls on different paths, so a busy week never follows the same script as a slow one.

Deploying Frontly into your own cloud is an enterprise capability, scoped with our team. See enterprise

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INTEGRATIONS

Works with the software tour operators already runs on

Connect your AI receptionist to the software your team already uses, so Frontly can check availability, manage bookings and capture caller details as part of your reception workflow.

Integrations support Frontly's reception and caller follow-up workflows. Available actions depend on the connected software and your setup.

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Not on the list, or need a specific workflow? Tell us what you use and what you'd like Frontly to handle. We'll check what's possible.

ANSWERING SERVICE OR AI

Should a tour operator use an answering service or an AI receptionist?

Many answering services take a message while your guide is out on the tour, and the traveler books elsewhere. An AI receptionist answers at once, takes the booking inquiry or group request, and answers meeting-point, what-to-bring and weather questions. It also calls booked guests when plans change.

Where a staffed answering service still wins

A local with a story. Travelers planning a once-in-a-lifetime trip often want a person who knows the region and can talk them through the options, and an experienced reservations agent closes that sale with enthusiasm. If your product is high-touch and bespoke, that conversation is worth keeping with your own team.

Where Frontly wins

Most calls are repeat questions: where do we meet, what should we bring, is the tour running in this weather. Frontly answers those at any hour, takes bookings, and calls guests when a departure changes, so your guides keep guiding instead of checking their phones.

Most businesses end up running one or the other rather than both. If you are weighing it up properly, the full cost and capability breakdown is in Frontly against a virtual receptionist.

Stored and hosted in your region: US, EU, UK
Encrypted in transit and at rest
Enterprise: deploy in your own cloud or on-prem

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Yes. Frontly takes the tour, date, number of guests and contact details on the call, and answers availability questions from the departure and tour information you give it. Every inquiry lands in your Frontly dashboard with the full call transcript, and your team can be notified by email or text straight away.

They get answered. With a group on the reef or the trail you cannot pick up, so Frontly takes the booking inquiry or answers the meeting-point question on the call, even when several guests call at once. A lost or late guest on the day can be handed straight to your guide on duty, or becomes a message if nobody can answer.

Yes. Frontly answers "is it running today?" from the weather policy and daily status you set, and a weather and schedule-change campaign calls every booked guest on the affected tour. It explains the change and records whether each guest wants a new time, another tour or a call from your team.

A booking platform's add-on sells seats inside its own system. Your phone also has to tell a full tour that the 7am departure has moved, or confirm tomorrow's meeting point. Frontly runs those campaigns over the lists you load, hands calls to your guides, reports outcomes across every call, speaks more than 40 languages, and gives you a prebuilt receptionist workflow to customize.

Tell us which booking platform you use and we will check it for you. Some vendors approve the connection first. Nothing waits on that step. Frontly answers guests and captures every booking inquiry, with the transcript, in your Frontly dashboard from the first call.

Yes. Frontly captures the date, group size, budget and requirements for a school, corporate or private group, then emails your team the summary or transfers the call while the guest is still on the line. A booking confirmation campaign can then confirm numbers and details before the day.

Frontly does not guess about safety, conditions or prices. It answers from the tour information and daily status you set, and anything else becomes a message for your team or a transfer to the guide on duty. The question appears in your dashboard with the transcript, so you can add the answer before the next caller.

Yes. Each Frontly agent speaks the language you set, so a family planning from Tokyo or Mexico City can call a dedicated Japanese or Spanish line and ask about the tour in their own language, across more than 40 languages with coverage varying by language. Your team reads the transcript in the dashboard.

Yes. Run a booking confirmation campaign and Frontly calls each guest on tomorrow's list, confirms the date, meeting point and what to bring, and logs anyone who needs to change or cancel. You learn who is not coming while there is still time to fill the spot.

They can. You choose how Frontly introduces itself, for example as your tour company's AI receptionist, and it never pretends to be a person. What guests notice most is that someone answers while you are out guiding, gives them the meeting point and takes the booking.

Yes. A weather or schedule-change call goes to guests who booked that tour, about their booking. An off-season promotion goes only to people on your opted-in list. Every campaign checks your Do Not Call list, reads the required disclosure statements and calls only within the hours the law allows.

Yes. You update the daily status and weather policy yourself in the visual builder, any time, and Frontly answers "is it running today?" from the new wording on the next call. Changes like this are always yours to make, with email support if you have a question about using Frontly.

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Every booking call answered while you're out on the water or the trail.

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