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Travel Translation Services

Our travel translation services keep your customer journey consistent in every language, from booking to guest communications and on-⁠site experiences. We work with hotels, airlines, booking platforms, cruise lines, tour operators, and tourism boards.

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  • ISO 27001 certified
  • SOC 2 Type II compliant

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Our Trusted Travel Partners

Trusted by travel and hospitality teams at 360 Blue, McKibbon Hospitality, Davidson Hospitality Group, and Hotel Engine, and by global organizations including National Geographic, the United Nations, and FujiFilm.

  • National Geographic, a Day Translations client
  • Fujifilm
  • United Nations, a Day Translations client

From first page to confirmation

Websites, Booking Platforms and Travel Apps

A translated homepage does not close a booking. If the booking engine, confirmation email, or checkout screen reverts to English, the traveler notices at the exact moment you need their trust most.

Localization services have to follow the customer from the first page to the message that confirms their trip, not just the pages marketing controls.

Travel translation services for booking sites: a hotel website on a laptop, tablet and phone.

Hotel and Travel Website Translation

Property pages, room categories, amenities, tour listings, and destination guides need to read like they were written for the local market, not translated into it.

Digital pages also carry technical requirements plain documents do not:

  • Local date, currency, and measurement formats
  • Text that fits inside buttons and menus without breaking a layout
  • Mirrored layouts for right-to-left languages such as Arabic

We review content inside the live page, not as a spreadsheet of strings, so these issues get caught before launch.

The same resort booking page translated from English into Arabic, shown on two phones.

Booking Engines and Checkout Flows

Search results, rates, fare names, taxes, cancellation terms, and checkout copy need to move as one connected experience.

A cancellation term worded one way on your policy page and another way in the confirmation email does not read as a minor inconsistency to a traveler. It reads as a reason not to trust the booking.

Ready to see how this works inside your own booking flow? Request a Quote

After the booking

Hospitality Translation for Hotels and Guest Services

Hospitality content works differently once the booking closes.

A waiter pointing out a dish on the menu for a guest at a courtyard restaurant table.

Guest Guides, Menus and In-Room Content

Guest-facing materials include welcome letters, check-in instructions, guest directories, concierge information, spa menus, and dish descriptions, alongside the room content that also lives on your booking site. Menus need particular care: an ambiguous allergen term is a health risk, not a style choice.

Hotel groups also run into a consistency problem: properties write their own descriptions, and separate translators pick separate names for the same room type. A shared glossary fixes that.

A hotel room door with a framed evacuation plan and a door hanger, both common travel translation jobs.

Policies, Safety and Operational Notices

Cancellation policies, house rules, safety notices, and evacuation information get read differently than a room description.

This content carries legal and operational weight, which is why it gets a stricter review step before it reaches a guest.

Have a hospitality program with guest-⁠facing content across several properties? Request a Quote

Travel marketing

Marketing, Destination Content and Multimedia

Travel marketing sells a feeling, not information, and literal translation rarely survives that.

  1. Transcreation

    Transcreation for Travel Marketing

    A tagline built on a pun or a seasonal reference in English does not survive literal translation, and an aspirational hotel description can read like a spec sheet once translated too closely to the source.

    Transcreation gives a linguist room to change the example, the reference, or the sentence structure so the message lands the way it was meant to, not the way it was written.

  2. Brand Voice

    Brand Voice by Travel Type

    A wellness retreat, a business hotel, and a family resort should not sound the same just because they went through the same translation process:

    • Luxury brands use restrained, formal wording, with the right level of politeness and address for the market
    • Adventure brands use energetic, informal copy that avoids idioms carried over from English
    • Family brands use clear, reassuring language aimed at parents and, where relevant, at children
    • Wellness brands use calm, measured wording that does not overpromise
    • Business travel content is direct and efficient, though what counts as direct varies by market
    • Budget brands use plain, specific language about price and what is included
  3. Video & Multimedia

    Video and Multimedia Localization

    Subtitles need timing and line lengths a viewer can actually read. Voice-over scripts need to match the pace of the footage.

Planning a multilingual campaign? Request a Quote

Regional markets

Localization, Languages and Multilingual SEO

Regional Language Variants

  • European and Latin American Spanish differ in vocabulary and address.

    cochecarro

  • Brazilian and European Portuguese differ in spelling and everyday terms.

    tremcomboio

  • Canadian French and French for France differ in vocabulary and in how prices, dates, and units are written.

    déjeunerpetit-déjeuner

Brief linguists on the target market before work starts, not after a draft raises questions, so one English source does not produce one generic translation meant to serve five regions at once.

Multilingual SEO

Search behavior is local, not translated. A traveler planning a trip in Mexico City does not search the way a traveler in Madrid does, so keywords need local research, not a direct conversion of your English list. Page titles, meta descriptions, headings, alt text, and internal links should reflect those local searches, and destination names need consistent spelling across every page in that language.

Hreflang tells search engines which version to serve to which audience: we handle the localized content, and your web team implements hreflang and other technical markup.

Need a market-by-market SEO plan? Request a Quote

Translation workflows

Human, AI or Hybrid Translation

Not every piece of content carries the same risk if something is slightly off. A rate update tolerates a lighter review than a cancellation policy or brand marketing.

Our translation services span professional human translation and AI translation with human post-editing, matched to the content type, the risk, the volume, and how often it changes.

Human translation + review

Customer-facing marketing, legal content, and anything carrying your brand voice get full human translation and review.

AI-assisted + human editing

High-volume, lower-risk content, like routine notifications or large listing catalogs, can run through AI-assisted translation with human editing to keep pace without skipping review.

Not sure which workflow fits your content? Request a Quote

Quality process

How We Keep Quality and Consistency

Your team cannot personally verify every target language, so the quality process needs to be visible without reading the result.

Every travel project runs on:

  1. Native-language linguists with travel and hospitality experience
  2. Approved terminology from your glossaries
  3. Style guides that set tone and formatting per language
  4. Translation memory that reuses approved wording
  5. Editing, proofreading, and automated QA checks
  6. In-⁠context and functional review inside the actual product

Linguistic correctness alone does not catch every problem.

A translation can be grammatically right and still too long for a button, still use one cancellation term on the policy page and a different one in the confirmation email, or still display Arabic text with the punctuation in the wrong order.

We review content in context, not as a spreadsheet, and every correction goes into the glossary so it does not reappear in the next update.

Ongoing programs

Pricing, Turnaround and Ongoing Updates

Travel content does not sit still. Rates move, offers expire, policies get revised, and new properties or routes open with little warning. A workflow built for one-off projects restarts the briefing and terminology every time that happens.

An ongoing program avoids that:

  1. One contact coordinating every language, not a separate thread per market
  2. The same linguists, glossary, and translation memory across every update
  3. Recurring workflows for regular content such as monthly campaigns or weekly notices
  4. Priority handling, so a service alert is not queued behind a seasonal brochure

Pricing depends on volume, language pairs, content complexity, formatting work, urgency, and how much content is reusable through translation memory. Turnaround depends on the same factors, plus how many languages are involved and whether the content needs in-context testing.

Ready to get pricing for your program? Request a Quote

Interpreting

Interpretation for Guests and Travel Operations

Written translation covers what can be prepared in advance. Some moments need a person instead: a front desk handling a guest in real time, a reservation issue, an airport disruption, a multilingual event.

  • Front deskVideo remote

  • Multilingual eventConference interpreting

Phone, video remote and on-site interpreting

Day Translations provides interpreting services for travel and hospitality teams, including phone, video remote, and on-site support in consecutive and simultaneous formats, along with conference interpreting for multilingual events with terminology preparation included.

  • Reservation issuePhone

  • Airport disruptionDayInterpreting app

On demand, around the clock

On-demand phone and video interpreting is available around the clock, and the DayInterpreting app gives staff access from a phone or tablet away from a desk.

Choosing a partner

Why Travel and Hospitality Teams Choose Us

Choosing a language services partner for travel content usually comes down to a few practical questions: does the provider understand the industry, can they cover the languages you need, and can you trust the process enough to hand over content you cannot personally review in every language.

A receptionist handing a guest their key card at a ryokan front desk, with the booking open on the guest's phone.

These are the specific points we can document rather than claim:

  • Translation, localization, and interpreting from one provider, so written content and live language support draw on the same terminology.

  • Linguists with travel and hospitality experience assigned to travel content, working in their own native language.

  • ISO 17100 certification for translation quality management and ISO 27001 certification for information security.

  • Glossaries, style guides, translation memory, and QA checks applied to recurring content and ongoing programs.

  • NDAs and encrypted file transfer for confidential material such as unreleased campaigns, rates, and partner agreements.

  • Coverage of more than 500 languages, including the regional variants that travel and hospitality markets require.

  • Operating since 2007, with American Translators Association membership and a BBB A+ rating.

  • SOC 2 Type II compliance documented through our Trust Center.

Larger or ongoing programs can be discussed directly with a manager before any work begins, so that languages, review steps, and terminology are agreed in advance rather than sorted out mid-project.

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  • American Translators Association (ATA) corporate member
  • Association of Translation Companies (ATC) associate member
  • Globalization and Localization Association (GALA)
  • Better Business Bureau (BBB) A+ rating
  • National Association of Judiciary Interpreters and Translators (NAJIT)
  • Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce
  • Arab Professional Translators Society (APTS)
  • New York Circle of Translators

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Travel Translation FAQs

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  • Travel translation services are professional language services for companies in travel, tourism, and hospitality. They include translation services for written content, localization of websites and booking systems for specific markets, adaptation of marketing material, and interpreting for live communication with guests and travelers.

Get a Free Travel Translation Quote

Talk with Day Translations about your travel or hospitality localization requirements. Send a sample of your content, the languages and markets you serve, and the systems your team works in, such as your website platform or booking engine, and we will outline how the work could be organized and priced.

Request a Quote or about an ongoing multilingual program.

Some travel and hospitality programs also need certified translation services for contracts, staff visas, or government filings. We can scope that alongside your travel content in the same quote.