About Tourtify
Great trips deserve a great booking experience
We give independent tour, trek and activity operators the same quality of website and checkout as the biggest travel brands, without the commission.
Our story
Why we built Tourtify
Many of the world’s best trips are run by small, local teams. Too often their websites are hard to update, their booking forms leave travellers unsure, and their evenings go on chasing deposits and traveller details by email.
Tourtify brings it all together: a website that looks as good as the trips, a checkout that answers every question, and the tools to run each departure.
It is made in Kathmandu, Nepal. Since 2019 our team has built Yatra, a WordPress travel booking plugin that tour operators run on their own sites. Years of their support tickets and feature requests shaped every part of Tourtify.
Founder
Umesh Ghimire
Founder & Lead Developer
Umesh Ghimire is a software developer from Kathmandu with more than 12 years of experience building web software in PHP and WordPress. In 2019 he founded MantraBrain and created Yatra, a WordPress booking plugin that tour and trekking operators use to sell trips from their own websites.
Working with those operators, he saw the same problems again and again: plugins stitched together, deposits chased by email and commission paid on every booking. Tourtify is his answer, one platform for the website, bookings, payments and every departure. He leads its engineering and product roadmap, reviews every change before it ships and stays close to the operators who use it.
- Experience
- 12+ years in PHP & WordPress
- Built before Tourtify
- Yatra travel booking plugin
- Core stack
- PHP, Laravel, WordPress, JavaScript
The team
Five specialists working alongside Umesh
Six people in Kathmandu design, build, test and support Tourtify. We list what each person does rather than their names; write to us and you will reach one of them.
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Senior Developer
The booking engine, payments and performance, and the hard bugs.
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Website Developer
Website themes, the page editor and how sites look on every phone.
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Product Designer
Screens, onboarding and making every setting make sense.
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Customer Support Lead
Email and chat, with a direct line to the developers.
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QA & Documentation
Testing every release and keeping the help centre accurate.
Kathmandu, Nepal (UTC+5:45), working with operators around the world. Tourtify is made by MantraBrain.
What we believe
How we build Tourtify
- 01
Direct bookings first
Marketplaces have their place, but every booking on your own site is one you keep in full. We build the tools that make booking direct the easy choice for travellers.
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Honest by default
All-in prices, real availability and verified reviews. No fake countdowns or invented scarcity. Travellers who trust what they see book more, and come back.
- 03
Your business, your data
Your customers, bookings and content belong to you. Payments go straight to your account, and your data is always exportable.
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Built for the real trip
Deposits months ahead, waivers on the morning, a guide checking people in at the meeting point. We design for how tours actually run.
What we have built
One platform, built in one piece
Everything below is built and maintained by our own team, so it works together: the website, checkout, payments, operations and every plugin.
Our customers
Who we build for
Independent operators who sell their own trips, from a two-person walking-tour company to a trekking outfitter running departures for months ahead.
How we work with you
- Plans are published on our website, with no commission on bookings
- Payments go straight to your own payment provider account
- Your data is exportable at any time
- Help from the people who build the product, by email and the help centre
- Move in at your own pace: build on a free address, switch your domain when ready
Let's build your booking site
Try Tourtify free for 30 days. Add your tours, pick a theme and take your first booking today.