Tours & activities in Thailand — for the trade.

Private & join-in (SIC) day tours

Private & join-in (SIC) day tours — included in the net rate and operated under the same standards as every other element of tours & activities: licensed suppliers, written confirmations, a named coordinator and the 24/7 desk behind it. We treat the quiet line items with the same care as the headline ones, because programs are judged by the day that goes wrong, and any element can be that day. It is itemised on the quotation, so you can show clients exactly what their rate buys.

Licensed multilingual guides

Licensed multilingual guides — delivered by professionals who hold the TAT licence the law requires, briefed on your itinerary and your clients before day one. Language matching happens at assignment, not at the pickup point: we confirm the working language on the booking and staff against it. For special-interest files we add subject knowledge on top of language, because a guide who knows the material changes the value of the whole day. Partners can request the underlying detail — supplier names, specifications, timings — at any point.

Attraction tickets at net rates

Attraction tickets at net rates — part of the paperwork discipline that makes a B2B file run clean. Documents are issued accurately and on time, in your branding where the service is white-label, with net rates that hold from quotation to final invoice. Reconciliation at the end of the file matches what was quoted, what was delivered and what was invoiced — and discrepancies are ours to resolve, not yours to chase. If a file does not need it, we say so and quote without it; nothing is padded in.

Theme parks & shows

Theme parks & shows — produced, not just booked. Our event side works from written run sheets, named supplier contracts and site visits, so the creative ambition is matched by load-in schedules, power plans and backup options. Suppliers are drawn from a vetted bench we use repeatedly, which is what gives us leverage on both price and performance when your client's date is on the line. The operations desk owns delivery on this line, with a named coordinator accountable for it.

Ethical elephant experiences

Ethical elephant experiences — included in the net rate and operated under the same standards as every other element of tours & activities: licensed suppliers, written confirmations, a named coordinator and the 24/7 desk behind it. We treat the quiet line items with the same care as the headline ones, because programs are judged by the day that goes wrong, and any element can be that day. It is covered by the same 24/7 support and incident process as every other element.

Custom special-interest programs

Custom special-interest programs — included in the net rate and operated under the same standards as every other element of tours & activities: licensed suppliers, written confirmations, a named coordinator and the 24/7 desk behind it. We treat the quiet line items with the same care as the headline ones, because programs are judged by the day that goes wrong, and any element can be that day. Documentation for this element travels in the client pack, in plain language, before departure.

Two practical notes on reading this list. First, it is a floor, not a ceiling: requirements that fall outside it — an unusual language, a tighter timing, a compliance document your market demands — are quoted as named lines rather than refused, and the answer to "can you also" is usually yes with a price attached. Second, every line above is auditable: registered partners can request the supplier contracts, licence copies and specification sheets that sit behind any element of tours & activities, because reselling a service you cannot verify is a risk no agent should be asked to carry.

Tours & activities in Bangkok

Thailand’s dynamic capital — where ancient tradition and modern dynamism converge. It is one of the proven home grounds for tours & activities on the Explera network. Bangkok programs are built around timing: palaces and temples before the heat and the crowd build, markets in their working morning hours, and river legs slotted where traffic would otherwise eat the schedule. Entrance tickets are pre-issued so groups walk past the queue, not into it. Clients arrive via BKK Suvarnabhumi & DMK Don Mueang, and tour pickups are confirmed the evening before with the hotel front desk as well as the guest, so no one waits in a lobby wondering. Guides assigned here are licensed for the region and matched to your clients' language first.

Tours & activities in Phuket

The Pearl of the Andaman — Thailand’s premier island destination. For tours & activities, it is a market we operate week in, week out — not an occasional request. From Phuket, the program mix leans marine — island days on our own boats, sea-cave canoeing and beach time — balanced with viewpoints, old-town walks and food experiences for the second and third day. Weather calls are made the evening before, with overland alternates ready. Clients arrive via HKT Phuket International (direct intl routes), and tour pickups are confirmed the evening before with the hotel front desk as well as the guest, so no one waits in a lobby wondering. Join-in departures keep solo and couple files affordable; private versions of every program quote on request.

Tours & activities in Chiang Mai

The cultural heart of the north — Lanna heritage and misty mountains. Our Chiang Mai team handles tours & activities as core daily business, with the local relationships to show for it. Around Chiang Mai, touring means elevation and culture: hill temples at first light, ethical elephant mornings, craft villages and night markets. Distances between sights are longer than they look on the map, so our programs are paced honestly rather than overstuffed. Clients arrive via CNX Chiang Mai International, and tour pickups are confirmed the evening before with the hotel front desk as well as the guest, so no one waits in a lobby wondering. Each program here carries a wet-weather alternative that is genuinely worth doing, not a token substitute.

Tours & activities in Krabi

Nature’s masterpiece — limestone cliffs, emerald seas and island-hopping heaven. Demand for tours & activities here is strong across the season, and our local bench is sized for it. From Krabi, the program mix leans marine — island days on our own boats, sea-cave canoeing and beach time — balanced with viewpoints, old-town walks and food experiences for the second and third day. Weather calls are made the evening before, with overland alternates ready. Clients arrive via KBV Krabi International, and tour pickups are confirmed the evening before with the hotel front desk as well as the guest, so no one waits in a lobby wondering. Entrance fees, meals as listed and hotel pickup are inside the net rate — no on-the-day surprises.

Tours & activities in Ayutthaya

The ancient Siamese capital — a UNESCO World Heritage day trip from Bangkok. It is one of the proven home grounds for tours & activities on the Explera network. Ayutthaya programs are built around timing: palaces and temples before the heat and the crowd build, markets in their working morning hours, and river legs slotted where traffic would otherwise eat the schedule. Entrance tickets are pre-issued so groups walk past the queue, not into it. Clients arrive via Via Bangkok — 80 km north, and tour pickups are confirmed the evening before with the hotel front desk as well as the guest, so no one waits in a lobby wondering. Guides assigned here are licensed for the region and matched to your clients' language first.

These 5 bases are where tours & activities runs at full operational depth — resident teams, contracted suppliers and daily movements. But the map does not stop at the labels above: the same desk quotes and operates this service anywhere in Thailand a partner needs it, from secondary provinces to multi-region circuits, drawing on the regional office nearest the action. If your client's brief names a destination you do not see here, send it anyway — the answer is usually yes, with a costed plan attached.

Seasonality is the planning axis partners should hold onto. The Andaman bases run their flagship window from November to April, when seas are calm and skies dependable; May to October brings the green season — lower rates, fewer crowds and a genuine saving for flexible clients, balanced against a weather plan we build into every program. Quote both windows when your client has date flexibility: the difference in value can be the difference that closes the sale.

These standards are not marketing furniture — they are the audit points we invite partners to test. Ask for the licence copies, the insurance certificates, the inspection notes; send a mystery booking through the desk and grade what comes back. Operators who have been burned elsewhere in Thailand tend to become our most demanding auditors in their first season and our longest-standing partners in every season after, because a standard that survives scrutiny is the only kind worth printing. Where we fall short of our own bar — it happens, this is a real operation in a real country — the incident note says so plainly, and the fix is documented on the same page.

If your client book does not map neatly onto any profile above, send the brief anyway — the four segments describe the centre of the demand we see, not its edges. The desk quotes tours & activities for niches these cards do not name every week, and an unusual file gets the same 24-hour response discipline as a standard one. The commercial logic for partners is consistent across all of them: net rates that leave your margin yours, white-label delivery that keeps the client relationship yours, and an operations layer in Thailand that makes the promise you sold survivable in practice.

Activity pricing is driven by format first: SIC seats price per person against scheduled departures, while private programs price per vehicle, boat or guide-day and divide by the party — the crossover point where private beats SIC usually arrives around four to six guests, and we will flag it on any quote. Entrance fees are the second driver, ranging from modest temple donations to serious marine-park and theme-park gates, all included as itemised lines rather than collected on the day.

Rates move with season in two ways. High season (November to March) carries peak pricing on boat programs and the big-ticket shows, and demands earlier booking on allocation-controlled inventory — Christmas and Lunar New Year weeks sell out trunk programs entirely. Green-season pricing softens meaningfully, especially marine days, and SIC departure frequency thins on some routes. National-park fees and attraction gate prices change on their own government and operator schedules, and our quotes always reflect the current published rates.

Net rates include transport with hotel pickup, licensed guiding in the booked language, entrance fees and meals exactly as itemised in the program note — and nothing collected on the day beyond personal spending. Not included: gratuities (always discretionary), alcohol unless specified, and surcharges for remote-area pickups outside standard zones, which are quoted up front when the hotel address is known. Settlement runs per file or on monthly account for established partners, in THB or your agreed working currency.

To turn these principles into a live number, send the dates, party size and the shape of the file — the quotation that returns within one business day is itemised against everything described above, valid for a stated window, and rate-locked the moment you confirm. Registered partners receive the current seasonal rate guidance for tours & activities as a matter of course, including the surcharge calendar for the festive peaks, so annual budgeting can start from real numbers rather than last year's hopes. And where a budget and a brief genuinely cannot meet, we say so on the first pass — with the closest workable alternative costed alongside, because a fast honest no is worth more to a working agent than a slow optimistic maybe.