A Personalized Guidebook Per Booking — Without the Maintenance Overhead

We've updated how accommodations connect to guidebooks in GUIBO. Delivering a personalized guidebook per booking just got a lot easier to manage — across your entire season.

Personalized guidebooks per booking

A guidebook holds all the content for one of your tour products — routes, stages, POIs, background information. You build it once and use it across many bookings.

When a booking comes in, you create a release and add traveler-specific details on top: booked hotels, arrival and departure dates, comments. That combination is what gets delivered to the traveler via the app.

The problem with the old approach

Previously, adding accommodations automatically created a personal copy of the guidebook in the background. That copy was disconnected from the original — meaning any update you made afterward, a corrected POI, a route fix, an urgent change mid-season, would not reach already-customized releases.

Accommodations no longer break the connection

Accommodations are now layered directly on top of the Master Guidebook — your standard tour product as it has always existed. The link stays intact. Any update to a Master Guidebook is immediately reflected across all releases that use it.

When you need to modify content for one specific booking, you can still trigger a full customization manually — always available, now a deliberate choice.

Two badges — always know what you're working with

• MASTER — The release is linked to the Master Guidebook. Edits here affect every release using this guidebook.

• CUSTOM — The release has its own copy, modified for this booking only. Edits here affect only this release.

  
  

In both cases, accommodation POIs are layered on top and visible — but only when the guidebook is opened in the context of a release. When opened directly from the Guidebook section, no booking-specific accommodations are shown.

Set up your destinations!

For accommodations to work as expected, your guidebook needs configured Destination markers. GUIBO uses them to automatically assign each hotel POI to the right day or stage category — so your traveler sees their accommodation exactly where it belongs in the app.

If no Destinations are configured, hotel POIs are added to the first category of your guidebook instead. The one exception: if a category named Accommodation exists, POIs are placed there — and that category can be hidden in the app, since the app already has its own dedicated accommodations section.

This assignment matters because POIs need to belong to a category to appear on the area map. A hotel that isn't correctly placed simply won't show up there.

Destinations are a one-time setup per guidebook — and once in place, every personalized guidebook per booking is handled automatically across every release. → Learn how to set up Destinations