Aerial view of the Great Barrier Reef near Cairns
GuestTours Host Program

Your guests book a tour anyway. Now you earn from it.

Every guest who stays in Cairns wants the reef, the rainforest and the waterfalls. Share one beautiful guide page. We handle the booking, support and payments, and you keep 50% of the commission on everything they book.

See what I could earn → Become a host
✓ Free to join ✓ No lock-in ✓ Fortnightly payouts
Example, a busy reef booking
$90
to you, from one family of three on a single reef tour
Reef tour commission ~$60 pp
Your 50% share ~$30 pp
Family of 3 ≈ $90
Most stays are families, couples and friend groups, and most book more than one tour. It adds up fast.
🤝 50/50 commission split 📍 Local Cairns travel agent 💬 Real WhatsApp support 🌐 Your own public guide page
Here's the opportunity

You give your guests a place to stay. You could give them the whole trip.

Guests come to Cairns for the Great Barrier Reef, the Daintree and the waterfalls. They always book a tour, the only question is which one, and through whom.

But have you seen how many tours are online? Hundreds of operators, endless reviews, wildly different quality. It's overwhelming for a first-time visitor, and picking the wrong one can sour their whole trip.

That's where you come in. You're their first point of contact, the local who knows. Guests trust your advice on restaurants, hikes, car hire and tours almost blindly. Right now, all that trust sends bookings to strangers online who pay you nothing.

So how do you turn that trust into real income? Simple.
How it works

One link. We do the rest.

No setup, no tech, no cost. Here's the whole thing.

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We build your guide page

Your own page on GuestTours with the best hand-picked reef tours, rainforest trips, restaurants, car hire and free local gems for your guests.

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You share the link

Drop it in your Airbnb welcome message, your house guidebook, or a QR code on the fridge. One link replaces a dozen scattered messages.

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Guests book in one place

They browse and book tours, transfers and rentals through your page. We handle availability, confirmations, payments and guest support.

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You get paid

Every booking made through your page is tracked to you. You earn 50% of the commission, paid out fortnightly. That's it.

Your guide page

Not an affiliate link. A page your guests will love.

Instead of typing out the same restaurant tips and tour advice for every booking, your guests get one clean, professional page with everything they need for Cairns.

  • ✓ A personal welcome from you, the local host
  • ✓ Hand-picked reef, island and rainforest tours, with real prices and "book now"
  • ✓ Restaurant tips, free things to do, car & campervan hire, practical info
  • ✓ A genuine upgrade to your listing, the kind of touch that earns 5-star reviews
See a live example →
guesttours.com.au/stay-cairns-guide-example
Sarah & Tom's Cairns
Your hosts · The Beach House, Trinity Beach

A local guide to Cairns

The tips we give every guest who stays with us, the good coffee, the quiet swims, and the reef trips worth your money.

We've hosted here for years, and the question we get most is "what should we do while we're here?" So we wrote it all down, the free local gems first, then the few tours we'd genuinely book ourselves.

Reef trips we recommend
Sunlover Reef Cruises
Best for families · from $327
Book
Passions of Paradise
Best for couples · from $275
Book
Evolution, Down Under
Snorkel & dive · from $275
Book
The money

How much could your listing earn?

We split every tour commission 50/50. A reef tour is often $30+ per person to you, and most groups add a rainforest day, a transfer or car hire on top. Move the sliders.

Your numbers

How many separate bookings/stays you host each month
Families, couples and friend groups
Most Cairns guests book at least one tour
You could earn about
$9,000
$750 a month
based on a reef tour + one more booking per group
Start earning this →

Estimate only, for illustration. Actual earnings depend on how many guests book and which tours they choose, higher-value tours (dive trips, multi-day, island packages) pay more per person. Nothing here is a guaranteed income.

More than commission

It makes you a better host, too

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Better guests, better reviews

Guests who have an amazing reef day remember who sent them there. A great guide page is exactly the kind of thoughtful touch that turns into 5-star reviews and repeat bookings.

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One page, not twenty messages

Stop re-typing the same tour and restaurant tips for every booking. Everything your guests need for Cairns lives on one clean page you can share in seconds.

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Your property, featured

We add your Airbnb or Booking.com listing to the GuestTours website, so travellers planning a Far North Queensland trip can discover and book your place more easily.

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We handle the hard part

Booking, availability, guest questions, payments, all on us. You never chase an operator or process a payment. Questions? One quick WhatsApp and we're on it.

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And here's the part most hosts miss

Your guide page is a real, public web page, so anyone searching online can find it too. You earn commission not just from your own guests, but from strangers who land on your page and book. The more bookings it gets, the higher it climbs on Google, the more people find it. Your page keeps working long after check-out.

The difference

Doing nothing vs. hosting with GuestTours

Right now
With GuestTours
Income from guest tours
✕  $0
✓  50% of every commission
Work for you
Endless "what should we do?" messages
Share one link
Booking & guest support
On you
✓  Handled by us
Earn from online visitors
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✓  Public page, found on Google
Cost to you
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✓  Free, no lock-in
You might be wondering

The honest answers

"Will this feel salesy to my guests?"
The opposite. You're not selling, you're helping. Guests are grateful for genuine local recommendations, and a beautiful guide page feels like a gift, not a pitch.
"Is it a lot of work to set up?"
None. We build your page for you and hand you a link. There's no tech, no dashboard to learn, no operators to deal with. You share; we do everything else.
"Do I get paid on time, every time?"
Yes. Every booking through your page is tracked to you, and we pay out fortnightly. You'll always know exactly what you've earned.
"Is this allowed under Airbnb's rules?"
Yes. Sharing local tour and activity recommendations is fine, Airbnb's off-platform rules are about accommodation bookings, not helping guests find things to do.
"Who's behind GuestTours?"
A local Cairns travel agent who personally reviews the tours listed. Real operators, real curation, real people behind it.
"What if a guest has a question?"
They contact us and we handle it. You're never the middleman. And you can reach us anytime on WhatsApp for anything you need.
The more they book, the more you earn

Everything your guests can book through your page

🐠 Great Barrier Reef tours 🏝️ Island day trips 🌿 Daintree & rainforest 💦 Waterfall tours 🚐 Campervan & car hire ✈️ Airport transfers 🎟️ Adventure & day tours 🍽️ Restaurant tips
Questions

Frequently asked

We split the tour commission 50/50 with you. On a typical reef tour that's often around $30 per person, so a family of four on one trip can already mean roughly $120 to you. Higher-value tours like dive trips and multi-day packages pay even more.

Nothing. Joining is free, there's no monthly fee and no lock-in contract. You only ever earn, you never pay us anything.

Every booking made through your personal page is tracked to you automatically. We total up your share and pay you fortnightly.

No. We build and host your guide page for you and keep it up to date. You just share the link, in your Airbnb message, guidebook, or as a QR code in the property.

Guests love it. It answers the questions they were going to ask anyway, the best reef tour, where to eat, how to get around, all in one trustworthy place. It makes their trip easier and your hosting better.

Yes. Hosts are free to recommend local tours and activities. Airbnb's off-platform policy is about not bypassing accommodation bookings. It doesn't restrict helping your guests find things to do.

Yes, and that's a big bonus. Your page is public, so anyone who finds it online and books is tracked to you too. The more it's used, the better it ranks on Google, and the more it earns for you over time.

Yes. We add your Airbnb or Booking.com listing to the GuestTours site so travellers planning a Far North Queensland trip can find and book your place more easily.

Just message us on WhatsApp. We handle it from our end, usually the same day, so it never lands on your plate.

A Amber, founder of GuestTours, on the water off Cairns
Who you're partnering with

Hi, I'm Amber 👋

I'm the one behind GuestTours. I've lived in Cairns for seven years and I deal with the operators here myself, so a booking from your place lands with me, not in a queue on the other side of the world.

Hosts usually worry about two things: that this turns into extra work, and that a bad tour comes back on them. Both of those are my job. I build your guide page, I answer your guests, and every tour on it is one I've vetted myself before it goes on there.

If the weather turns or a boat gets cancelled, your guest messages me and I sort the rebooking from here, usually the same day. You have my number from the day you join.

Amber Janbroers
Founder · GuestTours · Cairns QLD · ABN 51 726 603 464
💬 Message me on WhatsApp → +61 409 065 547 · info@guesttours.com.au
Get started

Turn your next booking into more than a night's rate.

Apply below and we'll set up your guide page and get you earning. It takes two minutes, and it's free.

  • ✓ We build your Cairns guide page for you
  • ✓ You keep 50% of every tour commission
  • ✓ Free to join, no lock-in, cancel anytime
  • ✓ We list your property on GuestTours too
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