The guests we send you arrive briefed, committed and looked after from their first email to the day they fly home.
We are an Edinburgh-based Scotland travel agency looking for accommodation partners across the country. Agreed rates, forward bookings in the quieter months, reliable payment, and a written framework that keeps both businesses secure.
The Kilted Unicorn is the trading name of TheCampBox Ltd, a Scotland travel agency registered in Edinburgh (SC597976). We have designed and guided tailor-made trips across Scotland since 2018, for travellers from the UK, the United States, Canada, Australia and France.
We are not the size of a mass-market operator, and we do not pretend to be. We are a local team growing across both English-speaking and French-speaking markets, and we book accommodation every week of the year. We would rather build a handful of strong, lasting partnerships across Scotland than a long list of shallow ones.
The guests we send you arrive briefed, committed and looked after from their first email to the day they fly home.
Whether you run a city hotel or an eight-room guesthouse, working with us is designed to be low-risk from the first booking.
Much of what we sell runs in May, June, September and October, the months VisitScotland is working to grow. We plan months ahead, so our bookings land in your calendar early, when forward visibility is worth most.
Our travellers are booked and committed long before they reach your door. They arrive briefed, they know what to expect, and they are the kind of guests who leave good reviews. We bring you clients you would not otherwise reach.
You invoice us, not the guest. One trusted business account, clear terms, no chasing individuals, and effectively no no-shows, because our clients are under contract with us for the whole trip.
We are based in Edinburgh and we answer the phone. We are not an overseas booking site taking a cut and disappearing. When something needs sorting during a stay, you deal with a person you know.
We sell each trip as one tailor-made package. We never publish or undercut your own rates online. Rate parity is respected on our side, always.
Understanding how we operate matters, because it is what makes a booking from us easy to say yes to. There is no algorithm filling a slot, no payment risk landing on you, and no late cancellation you could not see coming.
The same team that designs a trip is often the one guiding it on the road. That continuity is why nothing falls through the cracks between the booking and the stay.
Every itinerary is built around a specific client. When we place a guest with you, it is because your property fits that trip.
The booking sits between our two businesses. The guest pays us in GBP for the whole trip; we settle with you on agreed terms.
Arrival times, parking, breakfast: whatever you need them to know, we pass on in the travel documents we prepare for every trip.
Clients commit to their itinerary before any release date we agree with you, so you are very rarely left holding a room we cancel late.
There is no single right structure. We propose starting with the lightest commitment and deepening it only as the bookings prove themselves. This is standard practice in the trade, and it protects both sides.
We agree a net rate, or a commission, whichever you prefer. Availability is confirmed on request, room by room. No inventory is held, so you carry no risk of unsold rooms, and we get a rate we can plan around. The natural place to begin.
No risk to youWe hold a small number of rooms on given dates, with a release period: unsold rooms return to you, for example 14 to 21 days before arrival. We pay only for what we sell. You gain forward visibility; we gain guaranteed availability in busy spells.
Low risk · you keep unsold roomsOn a few properties that consistently work for us, we may commit to firm pre-booked rooms across the year in exchange for the best rates. The deepest form of partnership, entered only where demand is proven and the terms protect us both.
Firm commitment · best ratesWe are honest about where we are. For most partners we expect to begin at Stage 1 and grow. We would rather promise less and deliver than overcommit and disappoint.
A partnership should be written down, however friendly it is. We are not asking you to sign anything today. These are the principles we would want any accommodation agreement between us to cover.
We sell packages under the UK Package Travel Regulations 2018. In practice, we are the organiser responsible to the traveller, we handle the client relationship end to end, and where a booking is cancelled we expect suppliers to refund us within a reasonable, defined window. We are happy to work from your standard trade contract, or to put a simple one in front of you if you do not have one.