For liveaboard VESSEL OWNERS

LiveAboardHUB is the best low maintenance, high return vehicle to market your boats within the worldwide dive travel market!

Intense consultation with the dive travel industry’s leading experts has produced the most effective sales vehicle for both travel companies you, the liveaboard owner.

  • Automatically import and update the schedules and availabilities of your boats to be displayed directly to the dive marketplace
  • Enjoy the option of manually maintaining your boat, cabin, route and dive site content for display on agency websites
  • Display your own liveaboard listings on your own company website inyour house style
  • Now promote your trips based on routes and dive areas as well as your unique liveaboard attributes!
  • Guaranteed publication of your boats in many of the world’s leading tour company websites
  • 100% free, no costs!

Getting started
with LiveAboardHub in 3 easy steps!

Step 1: Register with LiveAboardHub

Please “register as a fleet or boat owner” on the page https://liveaboardhub.com/Account/Register
We will manually approve your log-in request so it may take up to 24 hours to activate. Your password remains secret and only visible to yourself.

Step 2: Get to know your own LiveAboardHub environment

Please take some time to acquaint yourself with the information about your company, boat(s) and routes being displayed by LiveAboardHub

Important pages to review are:

  1. Your company information: https://liveaboardhub.com/fleet/fleetProfile
  2. Your boat(s) https://liveaboardhub.com/fleet/boatList
  3. Your routes https://liveaboardhub.com/fleet/routeList

Notes:

  • For your convenience we have pre-populated many of the compulsory fields. Please feel free to update the texts, specifications and images.
  • DO NOT delete boats or routes without prior contact with LiveAboardHub staff.
  • DO NOT edit cabin counts or capacity unless you are supplying your own schedule updates (see below.) You are welcome to edit your cabin texts and images.
  • Please only use images and texts that you own or have permission to use.

Step 3: Schedules

We have manually entered an example version of your schedule. Please take the time to look at the schedules and acquaint yourself with the functions.

There are 4 methods to update your schedules in LiveAboardHub

1. Pipe DSV data exchange (for IT specialists):

This is the most effective, comprehensive and stable way to export your schedules to LiveAboardhub.

Building your own DSV requires some IT experience. Instead of CSV’s (Comma Separated Values) LiveAboardHub uses a vertical bar or pipe (|) separated DSV (Delimiter Separated Values) format. This format reduces the error margins by replacing the usual comma separator (which can also be found inside texts.)

As a further stability measure we have given the most important values (boat names, cabins, routes etc.) unique numerical ID’s. This reduces the risk of human error due to spelling mistakes etc.

A complete guide to utilising the LiveAboardHub DSV Data Exchange can be found in a pre-customised format at https://liveaboardhub.com/fleet/supportImportFilePipeDSVDefinition

2. Supplying existing CSV’s

LiveAboardHub accepts most CSV formats that you have already built to update your schedules on existing display engines (e.g. Scubadates.) Using existing CSV’s will display the basic information necessary to remain current on LiveAboardHub.

Please forward the URL to your existing CSV on your (web)server, and we will prepare it for use on LiveAboardHub. If you (or your IT specialist) are uncertain where to find this then it is generally displayed in the dashboard of existing display engines (example: General Settings → Import CSV-File by Scubadates).

3. Manual update by Fleet owner

You can update your own schedules manually at: https://liveaboardhub.com/fleet/scheduleList

We have designed the system to allow creation and maintenance of trips by the fleet/boat owners independently. If you have any questions then please contact us directly.

4. Manual update by LiveAboardHub staff

If you are a fleet or boat owner and are unable to update your own schedules, it is possible to request that the Liveaboard Hub team update schedules manually for a fee.

To update one boat’s availability weekly is from EUR30 per month.

However, we recommend you update your own schedules to ensure information is as accurate and up to date as possible.