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Watersports · Burntisland, Fife

65% more bookings for Forth Sea Safaris

A small, owner-run boat trip operator on the Firth of Forth, where the eola marketplace has become one of the main ways new customers find it.

Two Forth Sea Safaris RIBs crossing the Firth of Forth, with the Forth Bridge behind them

65% more bookings in 2026, on top of its own

1 in 4 of the customers from the eola marketplace have booked again

The results

  • 65% more bookings in 2026, on top of everything it took through its own channels
  • Over 60% more revenue in 2026 from the eola marketplace
  • Nearly 4 in 10 of its new customers in 2026 found it on the eola marketplace
  • 1 in 4 of those customers have booked again
  • Some of the highest-value bookings on the eola marketplace

A small operator on the Firth of Forth

Forth Sea Safaris is an owner-run boat trip business in Burntisland, Fife. It runs RIB rides around the bay and up the river, trips past the three bridges and out to the islands, whale watching and mackerel fishing.

Like many small operators, it has no marketing team. Every hour spent on marketing is an hour not spent out on the water.

One of its main channels

For most operators, the eola marketplace is one channel among several. For Forth Sea Safaris it has become one of the main ones. In 2026 it added 65% more bookings, and over 60% more revenue, on top of everything the business took through its own channels.

That means for every ten bookings Forth Sea Safaris takes itself, the eola marketplace adds between six and seven more. And nearly 4 in 10 of its new customers in 2026 found it there.

65% more bookings in 2026

Two years, not one good summer

This isn’t a single good season. Across 2025 and 2026 together, the eola marketplace added nearly 50% more bookings on top of Forth Sea Safaris’ own.

Valuable bookings, and customers who come back

Its bookings from the eola marketplace are some of the highest-value on the eola marketplace. People booking a sea safari are planning a day out, often for a group.

And they come back: 1 in 4 of the customers the eola marketplace introduced have booked again.

  • A Forth Sea Safaris RIB full of passengers in orange lifejackets, waving as it speeds across the water
  • Passengers in a Forth Sea Safaris RIB looking out at a red and white lighthouse in the Firth of Forth

Marketing without a marketing team

The eola marketplace puts Forth Sea Safaris in front of people already looking for things to do, with no ads or marketing team to manage. Bookings land in the same calendar as the ones it takes itself.

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Forth Sea Safaris took 65% more bookings with the eola marketplace in 2026. Book a demo and we’ll show you what eola, and the eola marketplace, could do for your business.

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