About WP Travel Engine
WP Travel Engine is a free WordPress plugin that turns your WordPress site into a complete travel booking website. Create trips, publish itineraries, accept bookings and payments, and manage customer inquiries from your site.
WP Travel Engine launched in 2017 and is now used by more than 20,000 travel agencies. You do not need coding experience to use it. Install the plugin, configure your booking settings, and start adding trips.
You can start with the booking options you need today and add more features as your business grows. Visit Getting Started when you are ready to set up your site.
Who WP Travel Engine is for
WP Travel Engine is built for travel agencies, tour operators, trekking companies, and other travel businesses that want to sell tours and activities online.
Use it to build a booking website for:
- Multi-day tours and single-day trips
- Trekking, camping, mountaineering, and hiking
- City tours and cultural travel
- Surfing, rafting, and other adventure activities
- Jungle safaris and boat tours
- Food tours, wine tours, cruises, and sightseeing
- Beach holidays and luxury travel
- Cycling, biking, and expedition trips
You can create a website for one type of tour or manage a large catalog of trips across multiple destinations and activities.
What you can do with WP Travel Engine
WP Travel Engine provides the core tools for managing trips and accepting bookings.
- Create unlimited trips: Add trip descriptions, itineraries, duration, dates, pricing, FAQs, trip facts, and other details.
- Set pricing categories: Create separate prices for adults, children, and other traveler categories.
- Accept online bookings: Give travelers a structured booking process from trip selection through checkout.
- Accept payments: Connect payment gateways and collect payments for your trips.
- Manage inquiries: Add inquiry forms so travelers can ask questions before booking.
- Offer discount coupons: Create promotional discounts for selected trips or booking campaigns.
- Organize your trips: Group trips by destination, activity, and trip type.
- Improve search visibility: Use SEO-friendly trip pages with Schema markup in JSON-LD format.
- Translate your website: WP Travel Engine is translation-ready and supports multilingual plugins such as WPML, Polylang, and Loco Translate.
- Build with WordPress tools: Add travel content with more than 20 Gutenberg blocks or more than 24 Elementor widgets.
- Track booking activity: Use the analytics dashboard to review information about your trips and bookings.
- Notify customers automatically: Send booking email notifications and provide travelers with booking details.
These features let you manage trip content, customer communication, and bookings from the same WordPress website.
How WP Travel Engine helps you sell more
Your trip page does more than describe an itinerary. It also helps travelers compare options, trust your business, and complete a booking.
WP Travel Engine includes features that support each part of that decision:
- Advanced trip search and filters: Help visitors find trips by destination, activity, trip type, duration, price, and other criteria.
- Progress bar: Show travelers where they are in the booking process and make the next action clear.
- Group discounts: Offer better pricing for travelers who book together.
- Extra services: Add optional services that increase the value of a booking.
- Accommodation upgrades: Let travelers choose a higher accommodation level when available.
- Partial payments: Give customers the option to pay part of the trip cost upfront.
- Trip reviews: Display customer experiences that help new visitors evaluate a trip.
- Social proof: Use reviews and booking information to build confidence before checkout.
- Discount coupons: Run limited promotions or offer discounts to specific customers and campaigns.
These options help you increase the value of each booking while giving travelers more control over their trip.
Choose add-ons and booking options that match how you already sell tours. Adding every option at once can make your booking process harder for travelers to understand.
Payment gateways
WP Travel Engine supports major payment services and regional gateways. Connect the options that your business and customers use.
Supported gateways include:
- PayPal Standard
- Stripe
- WooCommerce payment gateways
- Authorize.net
- Razorpay
- PayU
- PayFast
- Midtrans
- PayHere
- Himalayan Bank
- WeTravel
Gateway availability can depend on your location, account setup, and the add-ons you install. Configure payment settings after you create your first trip and decide how you want to collect payments.
Extend WP Travel Engine with add-ons
WP Travel Engine includes more than 40 premium add-ons. Add-ons let you expand the booking system without changing your core workflow.
Available add-on categories include:
- User experience
- Upselling
- Marketing
- Lead capture
- Conversion
- Automation
- Payment gateways
Use add-ons when you need a specific capability, such as advanced sales options, additional payment methods, or automated marketing workflows. Start with the features that solve a current business need, then add more as your booking volume grows.
Start building your travel website
WP Travel Engine gives you the tools to publish trips, organize your travel catalog, collect inquiries, accept payments, and manage bookings in WordPress.
Continue with Getting Started to install WP Travel Engine, complete the initial setup, and create your first trip.