Email Widgets – Viator Partner Tools

Put bookable experiences
right in the inbox.

Email widgets embed real Viator experiences — with images, live pricing, ratings, and a Book Now button — directly into your campaigns. Paste once. Convert everywhere.

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Your Top Picks for Barcelona This Season
From: Travel Weekly · to me · 9:42 AM
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Top Experiences · Barcelona
Barcelona
Sagrada Família Skip-the-Line Tour
★★★★★
From $38
Book now →
Food tour
Gothic Quarter Food & Wine Walk
★★★★★
From $72
Book now →
Park Guell
Park Güell Guided Morning Tour
★★★★☆
From $29
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Live in <5 min From login to ready-to-send

More than a link.
A full booking experience.

Widgets are short snippets of code that let you visually showcase Viator experiences — and direct links to book them — right where your audience already is: your website or your email campaigns.

Unlike a plain text link, widgets put real experiences in front of your audience with images, pricing, ratings, and a Book Now button. They're flexible enough to work for any destination, activity category, or travel style — and they take just minutes to set up.

Email widgets are specifically optimized for deployment inside HTML email campaigns, with a static, mail-client-friendly format that renders reliably across ESPs and devices.

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Top Experiences · Lisbon
Lisbon
Alfama Walking Tour with Fado
★★★★★
From $45
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Sintra
Sintra & Cascais Full-Day Trip
★★★★★
From $68
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Food
Lisbon Food & Wine Tasting Tour
★★★★☆
From $52
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Built for bookings.
Designed to be easy.

Email widgets were designed with one goal: help your campaigns convert. You get a high-impact, low-maintenance tool that keeps working long after you hit Send.

Built for bookings

Every widget surfaces product images, live pricing, star ratings, and a direct Book Now button — so subscribers can go from interest to checkout in a single click.

Optimized for every device

Choose your email width at generation time to match your template. Widgets render cleanly on mobile, tablet, and desktop across all major mail clients.

Fast to deploy

From login to a ready-to-paste HTML snippet in under five minutes. No developer required — just copy, paste, and send.

No ongoing maintenance

Set up your widget once. As long as Viator has inventory for the destination or category you've configured, your widget stays populated with live content.

Any destination, any style

Widgets work for any destination, activity category, or travel style. Whether you're sending a city guide or a themed itinerary, there's a widget type for it.

Performance you can track

Click-throughs from email widgets flow through your standard Viator partner reporting dashboard, so you always know what's working.

Choose the format that fits
your campaign strategy.

All four widget types are available for email deployment. Pick the one that matches how your content is organized and who you're sending to.

Destination

Automatically surface relevant experiences for any location. Great for destination roundups, city guides, or regional travel sends.

Best for

"Top Things to Do in Lisbon" emails, destination newsletters

Auto-populated

Category

Pull in experiences by activity type — food & wine, walking tours, private experiences, outdoor adventures, and more.

Best for

Themed campaigns organized around what travelers want to do

By activity type

Curated

Handpick the exact experiences you want to highlight. Ideal when you know your audience and want full control over what appears.

Best for

Highly targeted sends, editor's picks, personal recommendations

Full control

Dynamic

Products populate automatically based on signals from your website — destination, experience type, dates, or language. Works in tandem with your email and web strategy.

Best for

Partners with a connected website presence and segmented lists

Learn more about Dynamic Widgets →
Context-aware

Two powerful channels.
One seamless experience.

Widgets are built to work wherever your audience is spending their time — on your site and in their inbox.

On Your Website

Embed widgets anywhere on your site to turn passive browsers into active bookers.

Destination guides and city pages
Activity and category landing pages
Search results pages
Post-booking confirmation pages
Thank-you and post-purchase pages

In Your Email Campaigns

Bring bookable experiences directly into your email content — where your most engaged audience already is.

Destination-focused newsletters
Seasonal and themed campaign emails
Post-booking trip enhancement sequences
Re-engagement campaigns
Travel inspiration sends

From login to live
in five minutes.

Here's exactly how to create and deploy an email widget, start to finish.

1

Log in and navigate to Widget Creation

Go to Tools → Create Widget. Give your widget a name, then select your preferred language and currency.

2

Choose your widget type

Select from Destination, Category, Curated, or Dynamic. Destination is the simplest starting point for location-based sends; Curated gives you full editorial control.

3

Customize your layout

Configure the number of experiences to display, the layout format, and optional elements like free cancellation badges, star ratings, or Book Now button styling.

4

Generate your email HTML

Click Save and Generate Code. Select Email as your deployment type, choose your email width (typically 600px for desktop-optimized emails), then click Generate HTML.

5

Paste into your campaign

Copy the HTML snippet and drop it into your ESP's custom HTML block. Most major email platforms support this — look for an "HTML" or "Custom Code" block in your email editor.

Before you send

Always send a test email to yourself first. Confirm images load correctly, pricing displays as expected, and the Book Now button links through to the right Viator page.

Email HTML
Preview

width="600">
  
    
     style="background:#008768">
      Top Experiences · Barcelona
    

    
     class="cards">
      
        Sagrada Família...
        Gothic Quarter...
      
    
  

Compatible with

Mailchimp Klaviyo HubSpot Campaign Monitor ActiveCampaign + more

Small choices that make
a big difference.

Four things that separate a widget that converts from one that gets ignored.

Lead with context, then the widget

A sentence or two of editorial framing — "Planning a trip to Lisbon? Here are the experiences our readers are booking right now" — primes subscribers to engage before they see the widget.

Match widget type to send cadence

Destination and Category widgets are great for regular newsletter sends. Curated widgets shine in highly targeted or segmented campaigns where you want to be specific about what appears.

Keep mobile in mind

Select an email width that matches your template's responsive breakpoints. A widget that renders beautifully at 600px on desktop should reflow cleanly on mobile — test on both before you send.

Use in post-booking sequences

If you send booking confirmation or trip countdown emails, a widget featuring experiences at the destination is a natural upsell. Subscribers are already engaged and thinking about their trip.

Everything you
need to know.

Still have questions? Visit the Partner Help Center for detailed documentation and support.

Visit Help Center
Email widgets are standard HTML, so they're compatible with any ESP that allows custom HTML blocks — including Mailchimp, Klaviyo, HubSpot, Campaign Monitor, ActiveCampaign, and others. Check your platform's documentation for how to insert a custom HTML block.
Widget images are hosted on Viator's servers and load via standard img tags. Most modern email clients display these correctly. Note that some clients (notably certain versions of Outlook) may block images by default — this is standard behavior across all HTML email, not specific to Viator widgets.
The core product content is the same — experiences, images, pricing, ratings, and booking links. The key difference is format: email widgets are generated as static HTML snapshots optimized for email rendering, while website widgets use a JavaScript embed that can update dynamically. For email, use the Email deployment option in the code generator to get the right format.
If Viator doesn't return results for the parameters you've set, the widget area will be empty in your email. To avoid this, test your widget configuration in the partner portal before generating your final HTML — if results appear in preview, they'll appear in the email.
Click-throughs from your email widget will be tracked through your standard Viator partner reporting dashboard. For deeper campaign-level tracking, append UTM parameters to the widget's destination URLs if your ESP supports it.
Yes. You can include multiple widget snippets in a single campaign — for example, pairing a Destination widget for Rome with a Category widget for food tours. Keep your email length and load time in mind when stacking multiple widgets.

Ready to try it?

Email widgets take minutes to configure and can meaningfully lift the performance of any campaign that features travel content. Log in to your partner account, build your first widget, and see what a Book Now button in the inbox can do.