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Scale Tours works with tour and activity operators seeking to grow revenue - from new businesses just getting started through to established operators doing $300K to $3M in revenue. Wherever a business sits, the same problem tends to show up: bookings are flat or going backwards, and the cause is rarely marketing. Scale Tours is a one-stop shop at the start, mapping out the full distribution picture. From there, Online Travel Agents are the main muscle for immediate cash flow, so listings across OTAs like Viator, GetYourGuide, Klook and Airbnb get audited and rebuilt first. Scale Tours then builds out direct and wholesale channels alongside OTA performance, along with competitor and pricing analysis, reservation system advice, and AI search readiness checks covering how a business shows up in ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI, and social media levers. Founder Shahreen Leech built Scale Tours on distribution experience from Singapore Airlines and GetYourGuide, applying that same channel discipline to tour operators. Clients get a staged plan: discover what's actually happening in their distribution, build the fix, and grow bookings off the back of it. Whether bookings have stalled or a business is starting from scratch and needs the right channels in place from day one, this is where to start.


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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Very good experience

Chloe is quite professional and helpful, she actually help us a lot with very valuable insights, and always following up proactively.

27 October 2026
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Reply from Scale Tours

Thanks Ryan. Great to hear Chloe’s insights have been valuable and that her proactive follow-up has made a difference. That’s how we want every engagement to feel: clear advice, and someone staying on top of the detail so you never have to chase us. We appreciate you taking the time to leave a review.

Shahreen, Scale Tours

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

Disappointing Results After a NZ$3,300

Disappointing Results After a NZ$3,300, 90-Day Optimisation Program

We engaged Scale Tours for their 90-day OTA optimisation program, paying a total of NZ$3,300 to improve the performance and bookings of one of our Viator tour listings.

We entered the program with the expectation that their professional expertise and optimisation strategies would help generate measurable booking results.

Unfortunately, despite completing the full 90-day program, the optimised tour generated zero bookings.

While some changes were made to the listing, the overall outcome was extremely disappointing. We saw no measurable return in bookings from the investment.

Following discussions about the results, Scale Tours acknowledged in writing that a client completing the full 90-day program should see movement in bookings and that our outcome was not what they expected.

After further correspondence, Scale Tours agreed to refund NZ$2,200, which we have now received. We appreciate that they ultimately provided a partial refund, although we still incurred a net cost of NZ$1,100 without generating a single booking from the optimised product.

As a small, independent tour operator, NZ$3,300 represents a significant investment. We expected more tangible commercial value from a specialist OTA optimisation service.

Based on our experience, we cannot recommend this program. We encourage other tour operators to carefully assess the expected deliverables, measurable performance targets, and refund conditions before committing to a similar investment.

15 October 2026
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Reply from Scale Tours

Mike, thank you for your feedback and for the time you invested in the program with us.

Our work focuses on giving each experience the best possible opportunity to convert through optimisation. Over three months we completed multiple calls and touchpoints with you, a full rewrite of the listing, a pricing restructure, pricing recommendations and ongoing adjustments on Viator, of which lifted impressions and page views once the new version went live by over 600%. We also provided complimentary advice on your website, the products listed on it and your other Viator tours, some of which saw an increase in sales after that feedback was applied.

Optimisation does have limits, results also depend on external factors that we cannot control, including market, demand, OTA platform initiatives and key product variables, and our contract is clear that we do not guarantee outcomes. Within the scope of this project, in addition to our work we made two recommendations to build sales momentum given your private tour sat in a highly competitive market with an oversupply of product. These were a short term discount and enhanced imagery to lift appeal. The discount was declined and the additional imagery we requested was not supplied. Both were commercial decisions for you to make, and we stood by our view that each was important to the product’s chance of converting.

Although we fulfilled the terms of our agreement, we provided the refund as an act of goodwill.

This engagement has also sharpened how we assess fit, we now take a closer look at private experiences in highly competitive markets where near-identical listings compete for the same traveller, before taking them on. We always welcome a challenge and strongly believe in our ability to grow distribution for operators across Oceania.

We wish you well,
Chloe

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Throughout our work with Shahreen

Throughout our work with Shahreen, we have been enormously impressed by her integrity, professionalism and commitment. She has gone above and beyond throughout what has been a detailed and time-consuming project, consistently under-promising and over-delivering.
Shahreen is an excellent listener and communicator, and we always felt she understood what we needed. Her regular progress reports kept us informed at every stage, while the final close-out meeting gave us a clear understanding of everything that had been achieved and exactly what our investment had delivered.
If you want someone who will do the work thoroughly, communicate openly and genuinely care about achieving the best result for your business, Shahreen is your lady!

2 October 2026
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Reply from Scale Tours

Tracey and Anthony, thank you. Getting your tours onto a new channel properly took care, and you both put in the time to get it right. It's been a pleasure working with you.

Shahreen

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

We honestly cannot speak highly enough…

We honestly cannot speak highly enough of Scale Tours.
From the very beginning, they have been incredibly easy to work with, professional, responsive, and most importantly, they explain everything in a way that is simple and easy to understand. There’s no confusing marketing jargon — just clear advice, great communication and a team that genuinely understands the tourism industry.

The results have been outstanding. Scale Tours have helped turn our business into an absolute booking machine. The difference in our online presence, marketing and, most importantly, actual bookings has been incredible.

What really stands out is that they don’t just make things look good — they focus on what actually converts into customers and bookings. They understand how travellers search, what makes them book, and how to position a tourism business to get results.

Working with them has genuinely been one of the best decisions we have made for our business.

If you operate a tourism business and want a team that is professional, knowledgeable, easy to deal with, and delivers results, we can't recommend Scale Tours highly enough.

**10/10 from the team at Airlie Adventure Tours.**

12 September 2026
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Reply from Scale Tours

D'Artagnan, thank you. You put in the groundwork, and Chloe built your listings to turn it into bookings. Watching those bookings come through has been the best part. Looking forward to what's next!

Shahreen and Chloe

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

Yes Scale Tours were very easy to work…

Yes Scale Tours were very easy to work with, we could leave it to them and trust they would create, redesign and implement new plans and offerings within our business. They were very professional and always ready to provide alternatives.
Thankyou
Shahreen and Chloe

11 September 2026
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Reply from Scale Tours

Thanks Ben. Handing over part of your business takes trust, and we don't take it lightly. Thank you for backing us and for being open to new ideas. It's been a pleasure.

Shahreen and Chloe

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