Group Trips are designed for when you're taking several travelers on the same trip but each person manages their own booking and payment. You create one shared itinerary, and every traveler gets their own sub-trip underneath it - so payments, authorizations, and details stay cleanly separated.
To create one, just choose Group as the Trip Type. Beyond what a regular trip offers, Group Trips give you sub-trips, room and cabin inventory, optional add-ons, landing pages, and self-service signup - which makes them ideal for hosted departures, cruises, retreats, destination weddings, corporate groups, and special-interest programs.
When to Use a Group Trip
A Group Trip is the best choice when several travelers will each pay separately for their own portion of a trip. Each traveler gets their own sub-trip with its own payment flow, keeping payment responsibilities clearly separated.
Choose a Group Trip when:
Two or more travelers are each responsible for their own payments.
You want each traveler to have their own itinerary and authorization flow.
You want to avoid manually coordinating who pays which portion.
A regular trip may be the better fit when a single traveler is responsible for payment, even if that payment is split across multiple cards.
The Group Trip Page
When you open a Group Trip, the layout matches a regular trip, with three main areas:
Trip Header - Displays the trip name, status, cover image, and publishing controls.
Left Navigation - Provides access to all trip features.
Content Area - Displays the contents of the selected tab.
By default, the Overview tab is selected when a Group Trip is opened.
[SCREENSHOT: Group Trip page showing header, navigation panel, and Overview tab]
Navigation
Most navigation works the same as a Regular Trip. Group Trips add additional functionality through Landing Pages, Sub-Trips, and inventory management.
[SCREENSHOT: Left navigation panel]
Group Trip Features
Group Trips introduce several capabilities that are not available in Regular Trips:
Sub-Trips - Individual booking records inside a larger group.
Landing Pages - Public-facing trip pages for marketing and signup.
Inventory Management - Rooms, cabins, and optional add-ons with availability controls.
Self-Service Signup - Allows travelers to register and make selections online.
These features work together to help advisors manage larger groups while maintaining a single shared itinerary.
The Overview Tab
The Overview tab provides quick access to important trip information and common next steps.
Get Started
Quick links to common actions, including drafting a proposal, setting up automations, and tracking bookings.
Trip Description
A free-text summary of the group trip, such as itinerary notes, internal planning information, or host details.
Tags
Apply tags to organize, filter, and search trips more efficiently.
Travelers
A snapshot of everyone currently assigned to the trip.
Sub-Trips
The Sub-Trips section, where you create and open the individual booking records within the group.
[SCREENSHOT: Overview tab showing Get Started, Trip Description, Tags, Travelers, and Sub-Trips]
Travelers
Travelers are managed at the Group Trip level and assigned to Sub-Trips. When you add a traveler, you choose which Sub-Trip they belong to, select an existing contact, and set their type:
Primary - The main booking contact, who typically receives communications and manages trip decisions.
Secondary - An additional traveler associated with the booking.
Travelers must already exist in TripLoft Contacts before they can be added.
Sub-Trips
Sub-Trips are unique to Group Trips. Each one is an individual booking record inside the larger group - a single traveler, a couple, a family, or a shared cabin booking.
A Sub-Trip inherits information from the parent Group Trip while letting you manage that booking's travelers, selections, and payments on their own. You create and open Sub-Trips from the Sub-Trips section on the Overview tab. For the full walkthrough, see Manage Sub-Trips.
[SCREENSHOT: Sub-Trips section on the Overview tab]
The Group Itinerary
Each Group Trip has one or more proposals that you use to build and publish the shared group itinerary.
Building a group proposal works like any proposal and supports the same component tools, including room and cabin options, inline options, and optional add-ons.
[SCREENSHOT: Group itinerary builder]
Landing Pages
Group Trips include a dedicated public landing page for marketing and self-service signup. From the Landing Page section you can configure page content, calls-to-action, featured media, FAQs, and traveler signup settings. For the full walkthrough, see Create and Manage Landing Pages.
[SCREENSHOT: Landing Page settings]
Inventory Management
Group Trips add inventory controls not available in regular trips, covering rooms, cabins, and optional add-ons. These help you manage availability and traveler assignments as bookings come in. For the full walkthrough, see Manage Inventory.
Group Trips can be published and shared through their landing page, allowing travelers to sign up, make selections, and complete authorizations online.
Conclusion
Group Trips give you a single workspace for managing large traveler groups. With sub-trips, traveler assignment, a shared itinerary, landing pages, inventory, and self-service signup, they keep complex group travel organized under one source of truth.