We are the company that runs the trip.
Fifteen years in Bangkok, forty guides, our own vehicles, and a licence you can check. Everything we sell, we operate.
JoyoTour Thailand is a TAT-licensed tour operator based in Bangkok, operating since 2009 with 40 guides and our own vehicles. Everything we sell, we run ourselves — we do not resell other operators' trips.
There are two kinds of company selling Thailand tours: operators and resellers. Resellers take your booking, add a margin and pass it to a local company you never speak to. We are the local company. Our guides are on our payroll, our vehicles are ours or contracted directly, and the person who answers your first email is the person who checks you in at the airport.
That structure matters most when something goes wrong, which on a two-week trip it eventually does — a cancelled boat, a closed temple, a hotel that has lost the booking. Being the operator means we can fix it in an hour rather than relaying messages between three companies.
The commercial details are on the licence page: TAT licence 11/05432, insurance through Thai Re to THB 50 million, and a registered office on Sukhumvit Soi 11 that you are welcome to visit. The reviews are on Tripadvisor and Google, unedited.
Our story
JoyoTour Thailand began in 2009 with two guides, a rented desk on Sukhumvit and a belief that a travel company…
Why book direct with us
We are the operator, not a marketplace. That single fact changes what we can promise you.…
Our guides
Forty guides who live where you are going, employed rather than picked up from a hotel lobby.…
Responsible travel
No elephant riding, no tiger selfies, no orphanage visits. The things we will not sell, and the things we do i…
Licence, insurance and payments
The paperwork, in the open. If a tour operator cannot show you this, ask why.…
Common questions
An operator. We hold the TAT licence, employ the guides and run the vehicles.
23/8 Sukhumvit Soi 11, Bangkok 10110. Visitors are welcome during business hours.
Since 2009 — 17 years, originally as a northern-Thailand specialist and now nationwide.
Talk to a specialist
One person from first email to final transfer. No call centre, no queue.