Day Tours World

Website for booking day trips, excursions and activities in tourist destinations globally.

Day Tours World was established in September 2011 by Cathal O’Connell and Stephen O’Sullivan. O’Connell is founder/owner of Paddywagon Tours and Ernst & Young Entrepreneur finalist in 2009 and O’Sullivan of Splash.ie was winner of the 2011 Website of the Year in the Travel, Tourism & Hospitality Category at the Eircom Spider awards. Based on their extensive experience in tourism, both promoters identified a business opportunity to develop a web portal exclusively geared towards day tours: activities, excursions or day trips in any location around the world of less than 24-hour duration. Day Tours aims to be “the HQ for things to do” aimed in particular at small/medium-sized tour operators. On the back of this, they have developed a plug-in booking engine – dayrez.com – that day-tour operators can easily integrate into their own websites, allowing them to take online bookings directly.