--- title: "Running the day" description: "Junglebee guides on running the day for tour, charter and rental operators." url: https://junglebee.com/blog/category/running-the-day/page/2 --- # Running the day Guides on selling, getting paid and running the day, from operators in the Caribbean and beyond. [ Running the day5 min read ### Web-Based Tour Operator Software: What Changes When Your Office Is the Boat A boat-operator test for web-based software: the handoffs, phone access, changes, and payment details that must work away from the desk. ](https://junglebee.com/blog/web-based-tour-operator-software-office-is-the-boat)[ Running the day5 min read ### How to Start a Food Tour Business Without Losing the Guest in the Handoff A founder-operator guide to launching a food tour: choose the route, price the whole experience, and build a handoff guests and partners can trust. ](https://junglebee.com/blog/how-to-start-a-food-tour-business)[ Running the day5 min read ### Hotel Activity Desk Bookings: The Paper-Slip Problem I Helped Solve Michael Rouveure on the hotel activity desk handoff, the paper-slip problem, and the test that keeps referrals from becoming dockside chaos. ](https://junglebee.com/blog/hotel-activity-desk-bookings-paper-slip-problem)[ Running the day5 min read ### Tour Booking Confirmation Emails: What Guests Actually Need A practical guide to tour booking confirmation emails: the details guests need, the mistakes that create dockside confusion, and the simple operator test I use. ](https://junglebee.com/blog/tour-booking-confirmation-email-guide)[ Running the day5 min read ### Why operators look at FareHarbor competitors Why tour operators end up shopping for FareHarbor competitors - the specific moments that push them to look, and how I would map the alternatives. ](https://junglebee.com/blog/why-operators-look-at-fareharbor-competitors)[ Running the day5 min read ### Charter boat booking software: an operators guide The things I would check before I picked charter boat booking software again - deposits, captain changes, guest comms, payments, and the ones vendors never bring up. ](https://junglebee.com/blog/charter-boat-booking-software-guide)[ Running the day5 min read ### What tour operator insurance actually costs me An operator opens the books on tour insurance - what he pays, what changed after a bad claim, and what he wishes he had asked before signing. ](https://junglebee.com/blog/what-tour-operator-insurance-actually-costs)[ Running the day9 min read ### Tour Operator Insurance: A Plain-English Guide to What Coverage You Actually Need What tour operator insurance actually costs by activity risk — general liability, auto, workers' comp, E&O, and what OTAs require. No broker jargon. ](https://junglebee.com/blog/tour-operator-insurance-plain-english-guide)[ Running the day5 min read ### What a tour operator waiver should actually say Not legal advice. An operators mental model for what a real tour waiver should say, why gross negligence gets through, and why storage matters. ](https://junglebee.com/blog/what-a-tour-operator-waiver-should-actually-say)[ Running the day5 min read ### How to start a tour operator business The 12-step business plan tells you to write a mission statement. Here is what actually happens: no boat, four months of revenue, and the phone. ](https://junglebee.com/blog/how-to-start-a-tour-operator-business)[ Running the day5 min read ### Marketing automation for tour operators What to actually automate as a small tour operator: the four money-and-trust wins, two shiny traps to skip, and one thing to keep manual. ](https://junglebee.com/blog/tour-operator-marketing-automation-what-to-actually-automate)[ Running the day5 min read ### How Caribbean tour operators survive low season A first person operator survival essay on the Caribbean low and hurricane season. What you cut, what you cannot, and why cash discipline wins. ](https://junglebee.com/blog/how-caribbean-tour-operators-survive-low-season)[ Running the day5 min read ### How to market a tour company A guide to the four channels that actually move seats for a small tour company: concierge, Google Business Profile, direct bookings, and OTAs. ](https://junglebee.com/blog/how-to-market-a-tour-company)[ Running the day5 min read ### How to start a yacht charter business, honestly An honest operator walkthrough for starting a yacht charter business: boat, USCG license, insurance, dockage, first bookings, and the mindset shift. ](https://junglebee.com/blog/how-to-start-a-yacht-charter-business)[ Running the day5 min read ### Tour and activity booking software: an operator's guide An operator's guide to tour and activity booking software: what it really has to do on a busy Saturday, and how to evaluate without checklists. ](https://junglebee.com/blog/tour-and-activity-booking-software)[ Running the day5 min read ### Charter boat business plan: what mine actually looked like A charter boat business plan written by an operator: what banks actually ask, what templates miss, and the line that quietly sinks operators. ](https://junglebee.com/blog/charter-boat-business-plan)[ Running the day5 min read ### Peek Pro reviews: what an operator should read between lines How to read Peek Pro reviews if you actually run boats: which complaints matter for a Caribbean operator and which are noise. ](https://junglebee.com/blog/peek-pro-reviews-operator-take)[ Running the day5 min read ### Tour operator marketing: what I'd actually spend on Most tour operator marketing advice was written for SaaS or e-commerce. Here is what I would actually spend the next week on as a small Caribbean operator. ](https://junglebee.com/blog/tour-operator-marketing-what-actually-works)[ Running the day6 min read ### How to start a tour guide business: my playbook A tour guide business and a tour operator business are not the same thing. Here is how I would build the guide stage so you keep your options open. ](https://junglebee.com/blog/how-to-start-a-tour-guide-business)[ Running the day5 min read ### How much does FareHarbor cost? The fee math operators miss FareHarbor pricing looks simple until you run the real math: per-booking fees, payment processing, and the admin time and money-flow friction it hides. ](https://junglebee.com/blog/how-much-does-fareharbor-cost)[ Running the day5 min read ### Handle Bad Tour Reviews Without Losing Bookings A practical playbook for replying to one-star tour reviews - the first-hour cool-down, the 4-line reply, and a 30-day reputation reset. ](https://junglebee.com/blog/handle-bad-tour-reviews-without-losing-bookings)[ Running the day5 min read ### The Tour Add-On Playbook: Sell More, Not Pushy A small-operator playbook for selling tour add-ons - three offers, four moments, scripts that work, and a 30-day plan to grow revenue per guest. ](https://junglebee.com/blog/tour-add-on-playbook-sell-more-without-being-pushy)[ Running the day5 min read ### Build an Email List for Tours (No Spam Complaints) Build an email list the right way: consent, sign-up ideas, and a simple 4-email welcome flow that keeps guests engaged and compliant. ](https://junglebee.com/blog/build-email-list-tours-no-spam-complaints)[ Running the day5 min read ### A St. Maarten Snorkel Operator's Booking Reset How a small St. Maarten snorkel charter went from Instagram DMs and chaos to a clean booking flow with deposits, waivers, and reminders. ](https://junglebee.com/blog/st-maarten-snorkel-operator-booking-reset) **One useful email a month.**New guides for operators. 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