A button on a place card. Somebody asks to come; you answer.
A Book a visit button appears on the places you choose. A visitor presses it, says who they are, when they would like to come and anything else worth knowing, and it lands in your queue.
It is for the ones who would otherwise have walked away. A shopper asking to see the apartment, a couple asking about the hall, a family asking for a campsite. Instead of leaving with your phone number they leave you their name.
This is a request, not a calendar. Nothing is confirmed until you say so, and there is no booking system to keep in step.
Only the places you switch on show the button. Switch on the ones that will actually answer: a button that goes unanswered is worse than no button.
Start with two or three who have agreed to it rather than the whole tour.
By default requests come to you. Give a place an email address and its requests go straight to it as well, which suits a shop that wants to answer its own.
You still see everything in the queue either way, so nothing disappears into somebody else's inbox.
Name and email are always asked, because without them you cannot answer. Everything else is up to you: a phone, a date, how many people, a message.
Ask for less than you want. Every extra box loses somebody.
Booked tells the visitor they are expected, and you can add a line for them: which door, what to bring, ask for Sam.
Decline tells them it will not work, and you can say why. A declined request answered kindly still leaves somebody with a good impression of the town.
Done files a request you answered some other way. Nobody is emailed. Use it for the one you picked up the phone about.
The email address in a row opens your own mail to that visitor, for anything the three buttons do not cover.
One switch takes every button off the tour and keeps every setting and every past request. Use it when the season ends or when nobody is around to answer for a fortnight.