Petanque Tourism
At a glance
Petanque Tourism turns the platform into a destination marketplace where players discover training camps, tournament-and-stay packages, boulodrome trails, and travel partners worldwide. Signature tours such as Petanque & Pastis in Provence sit alongside camps in Madagascar, Thailand, and Senegal, with bookings, accommodation, and local club introductions handled end to end.
How it works
Operators, clubs, and federations publish offerings through a tour-operator CRM that manages inventory, pricing, dates, capacity, and cancellation rules. Each listing is multilingual across the platform's 43 languages and tagged by destination, level (beginner to elite), focus (technique, tactics, leisure), included services (coaching hours, meals, transfers, excursions), and accommodation tier. Tour-listings power the public destination guides and surface as banners and editorial features on the homepage and federation sites.
Travel packages combine tournament entry, hotel nights, and optional add-ons such as airport transfers, equipment rental, and social dinners into a single price; checkout reserves the tournament slot and accommodation atomically so no partial booking ever succeeds. Destination guides curate boulodromes, host clubs, fixtures, restaurants, and heritage stops with editor-reviewed content, photos, opening hours, and practical visitor info. The travel-companion finder matches players going to the same event or region by date, language, gender preference, and skill level, with messaging governed by safety and reporting controls.
Club exchange facilitation lets two clubs propose a reciprocal visit, agree dates and group size, and use a shared planning checklist for ground transport, training sessions, hosted dinners, and friendly tournaments. The petanque-friendly accommodation directory tags hotels, gîtes, and campsites that offer terrains, equipment loan, or partner discounts and lists distance to the nearest licensed club. Reviews and star ratings flow back to operators through the CRM and influence search ranking.
Key capabilities
- Tour-operator CRM with inventory, pricing, capacity, and cancellation rules
- Multilingual listings across 43 languages with destination and focus tags
- Atomic packages combining tournament entry, hotel, transfers, and add-ons
- Editorially curated destination guides with boulodrome and heritage trails
- Travel-companion finder matched on event, dates, language, and level
- Club-exchange facilitation with shared planning checklist
- Verified petanque-friendly accommodation directory with reviews
In practice
A Swedish player browsing the homepage clicks a banner for Petanque & Pastis in Provence, opens the tour page in Swedish, reads the day-by-day itinerary, and sees four spots remain. They book a single-occupancy package that bundles five nights, daily coaching, two excursions, and airport transfer. The companion finder suggests two other solo travellers on the same dates with whom they exchange a few messages.
The operator receives the booking in their CRM, confirms accommodation, and emails a welcome pack. After the trip the player leaves a five-star review with photos that surface on the tour page and the destination guide for Provence.
Features in this subsystem
6| ID | Status | Features |
|---|---|---|
| F13.03.01 | Shipped | Training camp directory (find camps worldwide) ✅ PL-F1303 |
| F13.03.02 | Shipped | Petanque travel packages (tournament + accommodation) ✅ PL-F1303 |
| F13.03.03 | Shipped | Destination guides (best boulodromes, local clubs, events) ✅ PL-F1303 |
| F13.03.04 | Shipped | Travel companion finder (players looking for travel partners) ✅ PL-F1303 |
| F13.03.05 | Shipped | Club exchange program facilitation ✅ PL-F1303 |
| F13.03.06 | Shipped | Petanque-friendly accommodation directory ✅ PL-F1303 |
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