Primo Tours Scraper for Package Holidays and Prices

Primo Tours is a Danish tour operator based in Ringkøbing: it opened its office there in December 2009 and sent its first charter guests south in the summer of 2010. The product is the classic package holiday: charter flights direct from Billund Airport, a hotel from its own programme, and Danish trip leaders on the ground. The site, primotours.dk, is in Danish and prices everything in Danish kroner.

The programme covers six countries. Greece carries most of it - the Chania coast and Loutro on Crete, Rhodes, Kos, and the Ionian coast around Paleros, Sivota, Meganisi and Parga. Spain has Mallorca and Gran Canaria, Turkey has Alanya and Side, Italy has Calabria, Egypt has Hurghada and Sharm El-Sheikh, and Portugal has Porto Santo, which the site also sells as a golf destination.

The catalogue is organised in two trees. Rejsemål runs from country to region to hotel, and the URL follows it. Rejseformer slices the same hotels by board - All Inclusive, Mini All Inclusive, full board, half board, breakfast or none - by themes such as summer and winter trips, adults-only hotels, child-friendly hotels, flight-only seats and train trips, and by active holidays. The season matters: each destination states the months its trip leaders are present, so summer destinations and winter sun destinations read differently across the year.

Primo Tours data answers questions about the Danish charter market that no hotel booking site answers, because the unit sold is a flight and a hotel together, priced per person for a set party.

• Package price monitoringother tour operators selling the same destinations compare per-person and total prices for matching departure dates, trip lengths and board types.
• Hotel distributiona hotel in Hurghada or on Rhodes sees how its rooms are sold in Denmark: which room types, which board, which supplements, at what package price.
• Discount depththe crossed-out price, the savings badge and the last minute section show how hard and how late each destination is discounted.
• Capacity signalsthe left counter and the view counter, tracked per departure, hint at which flights and hotels fill first.
• Programme changesnew destinations, dropped hotels and the summer and winter split show where the operator is moving capacity.
• Travel contentcomparison and travel media sites build feeds of hotels, facilities, distances and climate facts for Greece, Egypt and the rest of the programme.