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hosted/trips and Travelstride

Facts checked 4 Oct 2026 · wording is a draft for the copy team.

Travelstride is a large site for finding and comparing multiday guided tours, small-ship cruises and safaris from tour companies around the world. hosted/trips is a listing site, launching soon (no date set), for hosted trips where a named person runs the trip: retreats · workshops · group trips · cruises · event trips · camps and gatherings · road trips.

How these facts were checked. Travelstride's site (travelstride.com, operating as of 4 Oct 2026) refused our page reader on 4 Oct 2026, so every Travelstride fact below comes from Travelstride's own pages as they appear in search results that day. Each one links to the Travelstride page it came from. Someone should open each link in a browser and confirm the wording before this goes anywhere.

At a glance

Travelstridehosted/trips
Who it's for Travellers comparing multiday trips from tour operators, cruise lines and travel companies. Describes itself as "an open marketplace that connects multiday tour operators and professional trip planners with travelers."travelstride.com/partners · checked 4 Oct 2026 Travellers looking for trips run by a named host, and the hosts who run them.
Kinds of trip Guided group tours · private and tailor-made trips · safaris · adventure trips · river, expedition and small-ship cruises.travelstride.com/partners · /all-trips · checked 4 Oct 2026 Retreats · workshops · group trips · cruises · event trips · camps and gatherings · road trips. Every trip has a named host.
How travellers book Their help page says travellers book directly with the tour operator, not with Travelstride. Their terms add that for select operators Travelstride acts as a commercial agent and may collect payment./help-faq · /terms-of-use · checked 4 Oct 2026 On the host's own site. hosted/trips takes no bookings or payments from travellers.
How hosts pay Their partner page says the model has "no up-front costs." How operators are charged after that is not stated on the pages we could read./partners · checked 4 Oct 2026 Free while we launch. Afterwards a flat monthly fee, paid up front (price not set). No commission. Founding members of The Hosting Guild list free (conditions apply).
Paid placement Partners can "advertise near your competitors' content" and promote deals to Travelstride's audience. How the default trip order is set is not stated on the pages we could read./partners · checked 4 Oct 2026 Sponsored spots are always labeled. The regular list is never for sale. It is ordered by soonest booking-closing date; travellers can re-sort by earliest, latest, price. Clicks never change the order.
Price rules for hosts (parity) Not stated on their site. We never make you charge more on your own site.
Reviews Yes. Traveller reviews and expert reviews, more than 500,000 in total. Operators can reply to reviews./tour-operator-reviews · /partners · checked 4 Oct 2026 No reviews yet.
What the host gets (data) Direct contact with new leads · performance reports on customer behaviour · a reviews widget for their own site · editable company and trip pages./partners · checked 4 Oct 2026 Page views and clicks each month.
Status and size Operating. More than 1,500 tour operators and cruise lines on the platform./partners · checked 4 Oct 2026 Launching soon, no date set. A small number of listings at launch. Every listing is reviewed before it goes live.

What Travelstride does well

Where hosted/trips is different

What hosted/trips does not have yet: no reviews · no on-site booking or payment protection · a small number of listings at launch · no mobile booking app.

Which might suit you

Travellers. If you want to compare many guided tours, cruises or safaris from established tour companies, with a large body of reviews behind them, Travelstride is built for that. If you are looking for a trip run by a particular person, such as a retreat, workshop or gathering, and are happy to book on the host's own site, hosted/trips is built for that.

Hosts. If you run a tour company and want to reach a large audience, collect reviews and use lead and reporting tools, Travelstride offers those. If you run your own trips and want a listing with a flat fee, no commission, no price rules on your own site and a list order that cannot be bought, hosted/trips is set up for that, with the trade-off that it is new and small.

Sources

All Travelstride pages below were checked 4 Oct 2026. Direct fetch was refused (HTTP 403), so the content was read from Travelstride's own pages as shown in search results that day.