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Quick summary
- A tour package website starts at IDR 3,000,000 per year, ready in 7 to 14 working days, up to 50 pages
- Package prices belong in a table per group size, never inside a poster, so search engines can read them
- Agencies with many destinations times many departure cities use the SEO package from IDR 5,000,000 per year, 150 pages
- Manifests, deposit and balance invoicing, passport data, and sub agent commission are app modules at IDR 5,000,000 per module
- Hosting, SSL, the server, a WhatsApp group, and unlimited revisions for a year are included. The domain is bought separately in your name
Who looks for a travel agency, and how early
Nobody shops for a tour at the last minute. Demand peaks one to three months before school holidays, Lebaran, and the year end break, then falls away. A site launched a week before a long weekend will not be indexed in time, so the build belongs in your quiet months.
Four buyers come looking and none use the same words: open trip joiners name a destination and a duration, families name the city they fly from, schools and offices name a study tour or a gathering, umrah pilgrims name dates and a licence number. Artificial Intelligence assistants answer budget questions only from numbers in text.
- Open trip: open trip Labuan Bajo, cheap Bromo trips, Raja Ampat group trip
- Family: Bromo package from Jakarta, private guide in Bali, honeymoon packages
- Institutions: school study tours, company gatherings, outbound for 100 people
- Umrah: umrah agencies nearby, December departures, checking a PPIU licence
- Agent to agent: nett rates, series packages for resellers
A tour package does not have one price
Tour pricing moves with head count, so it cannot be printed like a product price. A trip at IDR 2,800,000 per person for six can reach IDR 4,100,000 when only two travel, because the car, the guide, and the room cost the same. So the page carries a table by group size.
The itinerary is written day by day as text, not uploaded as artwork, and the inclusions and exclusions have to be complete. Nearly every travel dispute starts there: optional tickets, meals off the schedule, tips for guide and driver, excess baggage. Each price is a starting rate with the date it applies from.
Buyers are afraid of being scammed, and the site answers that
Unlike buying a meal or booking a room, a tour buyer sends money weeks before receiving anything. Stories of umrah groups that never flew and open trips that never existed mean people vet the seller first, before they even look at the price.
One page therefore carries the registered company name, a visitable office address, the travel bureau licence number, and the Ministry of Religious Affairs PPIU number for umrah operators, all as text a buyer can match against the official register. Beside it: dated trip photos, a company account, and written cancellation terms.
Departure dates, seats left, and the minimum head count
An open trip sells per departure date, not per night like a room or a rental car. Each date carries a seat quota, a registration cut off, and a minimum head count that decides whether it runs. Three things must be visible: the date, the seats left, and whether the departure is confirmed.
A seat count nobody updates costs you twice, since sold out dates pull enquiries you must refuse while empty dates look dead. Your sales team edits the count from an admin panel, and closed departures move to an archive that proves the trips ran. Private enquiries use a form with a calendar picker, head count, and origin city.
Features a travel agency uses, and features that only add cost
The pitch travel agencies hear most is a live flight and hotel search engine on their own site. Setup runs expensive, upkeep never stops, and ticket margin is the thinnest part of anything you sell. While the real money comes from packages, tours, and groups, that engine just adds a monthly bill.
Full payment up front is the wrong fit too, because travel runs on deposits, instalments, and conditional cancellation, so a pay now button for IDR 25,000,000 rarely gets pressed. What works is a plain page on how to pay, the company account, and transfer confirmations collected in one place.
- Needed: a page per package with the itinerary, price table, and exclusions
- Needed: destination pages split by departure city
- Needed: a departure schedule with seat counts editable from a phone
- Needed: a licence page and dated photos from real trips
- Not yet: a live flight and hotel search engine
- Not yet: full online payment before your deposit flow is tidy
Which package fits, and how Metanotech builds it
The build starts from your package list, not a layout. We ask for every itinerary, the price table by group size, the inclusions and exclusions, the next departure dates, and publishable trip photos. One to twenty packages fit the Company Profile site from IDR 3,000,000 per year, live in 7 to 14 working days.
Agencies selling many destinations times many origin cities move up to the SEO website from IDR 5,000,000 per year, or the GEO website from IDR 8,000,000 per year. Hosting, SSL, the server, a WhatsApp group, and a year of uncapped revisions are included, and the domain is bought separately in your name. Our office is in Gunung Putri, Bogor.
Metanotech packages matched to travel agency needs
| Package | Best for | From, per year |
|---|---|---|
| Landing Page | One seasonal promo or a single umrah departure, 1 page | IDR 2,000,000, ready in 3 to 5 working days |
| Company Profile Website | One to twenty packages with full itineraries, 50 pages | IDR 3,000,000, ready in 7 to 14 working days |
| SEO Website | Many destinations times many departure cities, 150 pages | IDR 5,000,000 |
| GEO Website | A page per destination, duration, and origin city, 500 pages | IDR 8,000,000 |
| App Modules | Manifests, deposit invoicing, passport data, sub agent commission | IDR 5,000,000 per module, every 5 modules IDR 20,000,000 |
| Paket Bisnis Berjalan | SEO website plus 3 app modules | IDR 20,000,000 |
Frequently asked questions
How much does travel agency website development cost?
Travel agency website development starts at IDR 3,000,000 per year for a Company Profile site with 50 package pages, or IDR 5,000,000 for the SEO package with 150 pages. Hosting, SSL, the server, and a year of uncapped revisions are included. The domain is bought separately in your name.
How long does a travel agency website take to build?
A travel agency website takes 7 to 14 working days once the itineraries, the group size price table, the inclusions and exclusions, and trip photos reach us. A single seasonal promo page is done in 3 to 5 working days. Waiting on final hotel and transport rates causes most delays.
How do you show a price that changes with group size?
Package prices appear as a table by group size, for example 2, 4, 6, and 10 travellers, and a note on whether airfare is included. Every figure is a starting rate dated from the day it applies, and your team updates it from the admin panel each season.
Can our team update departure dates and seat counts ourselves?
Departure schedules sit in an admin panel, so your sales team can add a date, drop the seat count, confirm a departure, and close a sold out date from a phone. Past dates move into an archive that shows new buyers which trips genuinely ran.
Does a travel agency website need a flight search engine?
A live flight and hotel search engine rarely pays off for an agency earning mainly from packages, tours, and groups, since upkeep costs a lot while ticket margin is the thinnest in the business. That budget returns more on package pages, origin city pages, and a current departure schedule.
What should an umrah operator publish so pilgrims trust it?
An umrah operator should publish its Ministry of Religious Affairs PPIU number, the registered company name with a visitable office address, departure dates with seats left, the hotel and airline of each package, the deposit and balance schedule, and a company bank account, all as plain text.





