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Tour pricing & margin calculator.
Build the per-person cost of a programme, set your margin, and see immediately what the same tour nets you direct versus through an OTA.
Most operators price a tour on cost plus margin and then discover the margin isn't there. The reason is distribution: a 30% target margin on a tour sold through a platform charging 30% commission does not leave 30%. This calculator shows both numbers side by side.
The group
Accommodation
Per person, per day
Per person, one-off
Per group, per day
Per group, one-off
Your numbers
What you actually keep, per person
Across the whole group
Simplified model. It excludes your office overheads, your own marketing cost, and taxes. Use it to compare channels on the same tour, not as a full P&L.
Questions
About this calculator.
How do the cruise nights work?
They come out of the total, they don't add to it. On an 8-day programme with 4 cruise nights you are charged 4 nights on the boat and 4 nights in a hotel — never both for the same night. Set cruise nights to the whole trip for a full Nile programme, or to zero for a land-only one.
Why are flights and the sleeper train per person rather than per group?
Because that is how they are actually bought. A Cairo–Luxor seat and a sleeper berth are priced per traveller, so putting them in a group total and dividing hides what an extra passenger really costs you.
Why does my margin disappear on OTA bookings?
Because commission is taken on the gross sell price, not on your margin. If you built in 30% margin and the platform takes 30% of the total, what's left is a fraction of what you planned — and on thin-margin day tours it can go negative.
Should I price OTA tours higher to absorb commission?
Many operators do, and rate parity clauses often limit how far you can go. The more durable fix is shifting volume to a channel where you keep 97% instead of 70%.
Does this include my office costs?
No. This is a per-programme model for comparing channels. Your overheads, salaries and marketing sit above it and are the reason your real target margin should be higher than you think.
What's a realistic margin on Egyptian day tours?
It varies enormously by product and by how much of the delivery you own. What's consistent is that day tours have less room to absorb a 30% commission than multi-day programmes do — which is exactly why day-tour operators feel platform dependence most sharply.
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