BookYourHunt

What BookYourHunt does

BookYourHunt is an online marketplace that directly connects individual hunters with verified outfitters worldwide. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Challis, United States, the platform lists 4,069 hunting trips from 860 verified outfitters spanning 59 countries, 386 animal species, 19 hunting methods, 10 game classifications, and 3 guiding types. The product is product-led: hunters self-serve on the web, browse and compare trips using a taxonomy organized by geography and species, read verified reviews, and book directly — with select trips supporting instant booking and online payment.

The core product surface is the BookYourHunt Marketplace, complemented by an interactive hunting map, smart subscription alerts, personalized recommendations, digital gift cards, and a referral program. The company operates an Outfitter Portal for supply-side onboarding and trip management. The technology stack is a marketplace web application without disclosed API, SDK, or mobile app distribution, built around a structured catalog optimized for organic search discovery. The company is privately held with 11–50 employees and has not disclosed funding history, ownership structure, or executive leadership details.

BookYourHunt monetizes via marketplace commissions on bookings. Trip prices range from approximately $125 (entry-level North American hunts) to over $260,000 (premium exotic species such as Astor Markhor in Pakistan), with package and daily-rate pricing models in use across the catalog. The marketing mix is dominated by SEO and content marketing via the company blog, supplemented by email newsletters, referral programs, and verified customer reviews as bottom-of-funnel social proof. Customer demand is highly long-tail, with no enterprise anchors on the buyer side and a deliberately distributed base of 860 outfitters on the supply side across six continents.

Name

BookYourHunt

Legal name

BookYourHunt.com

Website

https://bookyourhunt.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2015

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

BookYourHunt is an online marketplace connecting hunters directly with 860 verified outfitters across 59 countries, offering 4,069 hunting trips spanning 386 animal species. The platform monetizes via marketplace commissions on trips ranging from $125 to over $260,000.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Online Hunting Trip Marketplace

NAICS

Hunting and Trapping (114210), Web Search Portals, Libraries, Archives, and Other Information Services (5192)

SIC

Fishing, Hunting And Trapping (900)

akta.pro primary industry

Comparison Shopping & Price Discovery Portals (BPAMAAAJ)

akta.pro secondary industries

Wildlife Safaris & Game Drives (THAJAIAB), Hunting & Fishing Lodges (Sporting Lodges) (THAGAIAJ)

Keywords

• Hunting trip marketplace
• Outfitter booking platform
• Guided hunting trips
• Online travel marketplace
• Adventure travel booking

Headquarters

HQ city

Challis

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Personnel, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Marketplace Commission: BookYourHunt earns revenue by connecting hunters with outfitters worldwide. The platform facilitates bookings and online payments, functioning as a marketplace intermediary. No explicit mention of commission rates or fees was found in the source data.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

BookYourHunt is an online marketplace that connects individual hunters directly with verified hunting outfitters worldwide, aggregating 4,069 hunting trips across 59 countries and 386 animal species. Hunters can browse, compare, and book guided, self-guided, and semi-guided hunts with transparent pricing, verified customer reviews, and instant online payment.

Product overview

BookYourHunt is an online marketplace that directly connects hunters with outfitters worldwide. The platform features 4,069 hunting trips from 860 verified outfitters across 59 countries. The core product is the BookYourHunt Marketplace, which includes a Hunting Trip Catalog organized by countries, animals, hunting methods, game classifications, and guiding types. Supporting features include an interactive Hunting Map, Smart Subscriptions for personalized offers, Personal Recommendations, Gift Cards, an Invite Your Friend referral program, and special hunt categories (Discounted Hunts, Cancellation Hunts, Management Hunts). For outfitters, the platform provides an Outfitter Portal to list hunts and manage bookings.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• BookYourHunt Marketplace Online marketplace connecting hunters directly with verified hunting outfitters worldwide; offers 4,069 hunting trips across 59 countries, organized by countries, animals, hunting methods, game classifications, and guiding types.
• Gift Cards Digital gift cards available for purchase, enabling customers to gift hunting experiences to other hunters.
• Outfitter Portal Partner-side platform enabling hunting outfitters to list their trips, manage bookings, and access the BookYourHunt community of over 1 million outdoor enthusiasts.

Named customers3 records

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• 860 Verified OutfitterscoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorThe platform's core business model centers on partnerships with 860 verified hunting outfitters worldwide who list their trips on BookYourHunt. These outfitters span 59 countries and offer 4,069 hunting trips across 386 animal species. Outfitters benefit from increased visibility to over 1 million outdoor enthusiasts while providing hunters with transparent pricing and verified reviews.

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• FishingBooker: FishingBooker is the closest direct peer: an online marketplace that connects anglers with fishing guides and charters worldwide. It operates the same product-led marketplace model as BookYourHunt, with similar catalog-by-destination browsing, verified reviews, and instant booking. BookYourHunt is essentially the hunting vertical counterpart to FishingBooker's fishing vertical, sharing marketplace mechanics, target buyer (outdoor enthusiast), and small-team operating model.
• SafariBookings: SafariBookings is a marketplace that lets travelers compare and book safari tours (including hunting safaris) from operators across Africa. Overlaps directly with BookYourHunt's African outfitter inventory and game-classification taxonomy (Big Five, Plains Game, etc.), competing for the same high-value trophy hunt bookings. Operates a similar comparison/discovery-portal UX.

Broad incumbents

• Hipcamp: Hipcamp is a marketplace platform that connects outdoor enthusiasts with private landowners offering camping, glamping, and outdoor experiences across the U.S. While broader than hunting, it shares the same outdoor-experiences marketplace structure and PLG growth model as BookYourHunt, serving as a useful adjacent benchmark for marketplace scaling, take rates, and outdoor community engagement.
• Outdoorsy: Outdoorsy operates a marketplace for RV rentals and outdoor experiences, applying a similar two-sided platform approach to the outdoor recreation industry. Comparable to BookYourHunt in marketplace mechanics and the broader outdoor enthusiast target audience, though materially larger and venture-backed.
• TourRadar: TourRadar is a global marketplace for multi-day guided tours and adventure experiences, attracting over 40 tour operators and serving a customer base of international travelers. Overlap with BookYourHunt in multi-country adventure inventory, but considerably broader in scope and larger in scale.
• GetYourGuide: GetYourGuide is a major global marketplace for tours, attractions, and experiences across thousands of destinations. Comparable only at the marketplace-for-experiences category level; BookYourHunt is highly specialized in hunting while GetYourGuide is a broad-based incumbent across all experience categories.
• Viator (Tripadvisor): Viator is a global experiences marketplace for tours, activities, and attractions owned by Tripadvisor. While much larger and broader than BookYourHunt, Viator's curated-supplier marketplace model and destination-based discovery UX represent the broad-incumbent pattern that niche verticals like BookYourHunt operate within.

Emerging players

• Captain Experiences: Captain Experiences is a marketplace that connects consumers with fishing guides, charters, and outdoor excursions in coastal U.S. markets. Useful EMERGING_PLAYER analog for BookYourHunt's hunting marketplace model in a closely adjacent vertical (fishing), sharing comparable trust/review features and small-team marketplace operations.
• Outdooractive: Outdooractive is a European outdoor discovery and trip-planning platform that aggregates trails, tours, and outdoor activities. Touches BookYourHunt's broader outdoor enthusiast audience and infrastructure-like tour aggregation role in Europe, though it is more trail-focused than guided-hunt-focused.

Regional players

• Hunt Network / Hunt Listings sites (regional guides): Regional hunting directory and outfitter-listing sites such as Hunt Network publish outfitter directories and trip listings primarily in North America. Less of a transactional marketplace than BookYourHunt, more of an advertising/directory play, but they compete for the same North American outfitters' marketing budgets.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/bookyourhunt
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/bookyourhunt

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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