Travel directory software
Travel directory software for WordPress and Joomla
A regional city guide, a country tourism portal, an expat-life directory, a multi-region restaurant and activity site — they all share the same problem. The visitor arrives looking for something nearby and useful, and they need to filter by region, season, category, and what other visitors actually said. A plain WordPress page or a basic listing plugin can't carry that. The structure isn't there. The search isn't there. The review depth isn't there.
You're putting together a guide to a city, a region, or a specific kind of trip — restaurants in Lisbon, family activities in Costa Rica, a multi-region food and wine site, a country-level expat guide. JReviews builds it on WordPress or Joomla. Listings carry multi-criteria reviews — food, service, atmosphere, value, or whatever your category needs — alongside custom fields for region, season, opening hours, and price tier, plus GPS coordinates via the MapsPro add-on. Search filters across all of that, including proximity to a chosen city or point of interest when MapsPro is active. Owners can claim and update their entry from the public site.
Who this is for
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Regional travel publishers
City- or region-specific guides covering hotels, restaurants, things to do, and seasonal events under one directory, with multi-criteria reviews and editor-curated picks alongside visitor reviews.
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Country and multi-city tourism networks
Tourism boards, regional DMOs, and multi-region publishers that need one site to cover several cities, each with its own categories and listings.
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Niche travel community builders
Adventure travel, food and drink, slow travel, family travel — verticals where a community of reviewers and an editorial layer matter more than a booking engine.
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Business-travel and expat directories
Sites that catalogue serviced apartments, coworking spots, relocation specialists, language schools, and clinics for people who live in a city for weeks or months at a time.
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Agencies and studios building for travel clients
Studios launching a tourism portal or city guide for a regional tourism board, a regional chamber, or a local-media publisher — and that want one annual license instead of stringing together unrelated plugins to maintain.
Built for travel directories
What each JReviews feature actually does for a travel directories site.
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MapsPro proximity search
Visitors search 'within 10 km of Lisbon city centre' and the directory ranks results by distance, with map view, static covers, geocoding, and OpenStreetMap, Mapbox, Google Maps, Nominatim, or ArcGIS as map providers. Available as a paid add-on on Standard; bundled on Professional.
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Favorites and trip wish-lists
Visitors save listings to a favorites list and — with the MyLists add-on (bundled on Professional, paid extra on Standard) — build named multi-listing wish-lists. A traveller can curate a short-list of hotels in Lisbon, a multi-stop itinerary, or a shared family-trip checklist before booking.
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Custom fields for regions and seasons
Add the fields travel buyers actually filter on: region, sub-area, peak-season vs shoulder-season pricing, kid-friendly, pet-friendly, accessibility notes, opening hours by month. Each listing category can have its own field set, so hotels and walking tours don't share the same form.
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Multi-criteria reviews
A hotel can be rated separately on cleanliness, value, breakfast, and location. A restaurant on food, service, atmosphere, value. A walking tour on pace, guide knowledge, scenery, value. Visitors see what actually matters per category, not one generic star score.
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Listing media library
Each listing carries a full photo gallery, video embeds, and editor-uploaded cover images. Travel buyers compare on look before they read anything; the media layer is part of the conversion path, not decoration.
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GPS coordinates with GPX, KML, and GeoJSON routes
Drop GPS coordinates on every listing, attach a GPX, KML, or GeoJSON route to walking tours, hikes, scenic drives, or self-guided itineraries, and surface an elevation profile on the listing page. MapsPro carries this layer; geocoding and providers include OpenStreetMap, Mapbox, Google, Nominatim, and ArcGIS.
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Rich-result markup so Google can show ratings in search
JReviews adds the structured data Google reads to decide whether to show a listing with ratings, hours, location, and price range in search results. Each listing gets the most fitting tag — LodgingBusiness for hotels, FoodEstablishment for restaurants, EntertainmentBusiness for attractions, SportsActivityLocation for outdoor activities — and falls back to a generic LocalBusiness tag otherwise. Google decides whether to render the rich result.
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Claims and inquiry workflow
Hotel owners, restaurant operators, and tour guides can claim their listing from the public site and edit it under the moderation rules you set. Visitors can send inquiries directly to a listing owner without ever seeing the email address.
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Multiple listing types under one directory
Hotels, restaurants, attractions, tours, and rentals can each have their own field set, review criteria, and category tree — without splitting them across separate plugins or separate sites.
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Top-list ranking that values track record
A new restaurant with three five-star reviews does not outrank a long-running one with two hundred reviews averaging 4.6. The ranking takes review count into account alongside the score, so proven listings stay where they belong even when a newcomer has a flawless run.
Common travel directories use cases
Multi-city tourism portal
A regional tourism board running one directory across five or six cities, each with its own categories — hotels, restaurants, museums, day trips — and its own editorial team writing curated picks alongside visitor reviews.
Country-level expat and relocation guide
A guide to Portugal, Mexico, or Vietnam for newcomers — coworking spots, clinics, language schools, banks, schools — organized by city and category, with reviews from people who've lived there longer than a week.
Regional dining and activity directory
A single regional site covering restaurants, bars, wineries, tour operators, and outdoor activities — multi-criteria reviews per category so a wine bar and a kayak rental aren't reviewed against the same template.
Business-travel and long-stay directory
Serviced apartments, coworking, conference venues, relocation specialists — listings filtered by neighborhood, monthly rate, and amenities for travellers staying weeks or months instead of nights.
Walking-tour and self-guided itinerary site
Each tour is a listing with a GPX or KML route through MapsPro, a stop-by-stop description, elevation profile, photos, and visitor reviews. Visitors filter by city, duration, difficulty, and starting neighborhood.
Niche travel community
Slow travel, adventure travel, family travel, accessible travel — a directory that doubles as a community of reviewers and editors, with reviewer ranks, owner replies, and editor-curated picks.
What kind of travel directories site you can build
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City and regional travel guides
Curated directories of restaurants, hotels, attractions, and events for one city, one region, or a sub-region inside a country.
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Multi-country expat and relocation directories
Practical directories for newcomers in one country or across several, organized by city and category — clinics, schools, coworking, banks, services.
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Food, drink, and nightlife directories
Multi-criteria-reviewed restaurants, bars, cafés, wineries, and food markets, with photo galleries, owner replies, and the search filters people actually use when choosing where to eat.
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Business-travel and long-stay directories
Serviced apartments, coworking, conference venues, and relocation services for travellers staying weeks or months at a time.
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Walking-tour and self-guided directories
GPS, KML, and elevation-profile tours of cities and regions through MapsPro, with reviews from people who've actually walked them.
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Tourism-board and regional-publisher sites
Tourism-board and regional-publisher directories that catalogue everything a visitor needs in a destination — restaurants, hotels, attractions, events — with editor-curated picks alongside user reviews.
Plans and pricing
Standard covers most regional travel directories. Professional makes sense when monetization, maps, and a launch-ready template are part of the build plan from day one.
Standard
$179 / year
Core reviews engine, listing types, custom fields, claims, inquiries, schema, and CMS support for WordPress and Joomla.
Premium add-ons such as PaidListings and MapsPro are available as separate purchases on this plan.
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Professional
$427 / year
Everything in Standard plus all premium add-ons bundled — PaidListings, MapsPro, Import, and the iReview (WordPress) or Vivaz (Joomla) template.
Built for directory builds where monetization, maps, and templating are part of the launch plan rather than later upgrades.
Buy for
30-day money-back guarantee
How travel directories make money on JReviews
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Paid submissions for hotels, restaurants, and tour operators
Charge listing owners to add or upgrade an entry, one-time or annual, through PaidListings. Available as a paid add-on on Standard; bundled on Professional.
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Featured placement on city or category pages
Sell promoted placement at the top of a city, region, or category result page through PaidListings' featured-listing upgrades — clearly separated from organic results in the layout.
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Sponsored guides and editorial partnerships
Tourism boards and regional sponsors fund editor-written guides under the same directory — covered by the editorial-review layer and reviewer ranks, with clear sponsor disclosure.
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Affiliate links on listings
Drop booking-platform or activity-marketplace affiliate links inside listing custom fields — or use the ListingResources add-on (paid extra on Standard; bundled on Professional), which adds deals, articles, news, and award entries tied to a listing without separate listing records. JReviews stays neutral; you're not locked into a single booking provider.
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Local advertising on high-traffic region pages
Once a city or region page builds organic traffic, the inventory is worth selling directly to local advertisers — restaurants, tour operators, equipment rentals — without an ad network in between.
Frequently asked questions
Can JReviews handle a directory covering multiple cities or regions?
Yes. JReviews supports multiple directories on the same site, each with its own categories, listing types, and review criteria. A country-level tourism site can give every city or region its own tree without splitting users across separate plugins or separate sites.
Does JReviews support GPS coordinates and KML routes on listings?
Yes, with the MapsPro add-on. Listings can carry GPS coordinates, GPX, KML, or GeoJSON route files, and an elevation profile, and visitors can search by proximity to a city or point of interest. Map providers include OpenStreetMap, Mapbox, Google, Nominatim, and ArcGIS. MapsPro is a paid add-on on Standard and is bundled in Professional.
Can I bulk-import listings from a CSV?
Yes, with the Import add-on. Use CSV create, update, and export workflows to seed a directory with a large pre-existing inventory — a tourism board with hundreds of operators, an expat guide with seeded clinics and schools — and keep the master spreadsheet as the source of truth. Import is bundled on Professional and available as a paid add-on on Standard.
How do listing owners claim and update their entry?
Hotel owners, restaurant operators, and tour guides can claim their listing from the public site and edit it under moderation rules you set. The claim flow runs through admin moderation and includes an inquiry-form inbox so visitors can contact the owner without ever seeing the email address.
Can I monetize the directory with paid submissions or featured placement?
Yes, through the PaidListings add-on. It covers paid submissions, paid upgrades, featured placement on category pages, listing subscriptions, coupons, taxes, and several payment handlers. PaidListings is a paid extra on Standard and is bundled on Professional.
Can I try a configured travel directory before buying?
Yes. The hosted WordPress demo is at wp-demo.jreviews.com and the hosted Joomla demo at demo.jreviews.com — both run a fully configured directory you can explore as a visitor or sign in to as an editor. JReviews also offers a 30-day money-back guarantee on annual plans.
Do reviews on a travel directory show up in Google search results?
Yes. JReviews adds the rich-result markup Google reads to potentially show rating stars, location, hours, and price range alongside a listing in search. Each listing gets the most fitting tag — LodgingBusiness for hotels, FoodEstablishment for restaurants, EntertainmentBusiness for attractions, SportsActivityLocation for outdoor activities — and falls back to the generic LocalBusiness tag otherwise. Google decides whether to display the rich result.
Get started
Open the live demo to see how a travel directories site is configured, or jump straight to plans and pricing.