Yacht rentals integrated into Google Maps for the first time

Yacht rentals have been integrated into Google’s ‘Things to Do’ — a feature that enables tour, attraction and activity operators to list their products and prices — for the first time.

Charter listings are now appearing in Google Maps via Boatscribe, a UK-based metasearch platform for yacht rentals, which says it aggregates more than 36,000 yachts across over 1,000 destinations worldwide.

As repoted by MIN, Boatscribe secured €250,000 in pre-seed funding to support its growth and integration into the wider travel sector in 2025.

Boatscribe aggregates listings from charter operators and brokers and provides search, comparison and booking functionality. The company states that the new integration allows travellers to discover and compare yacht rentals directly through the map interface, alongside other travel products.

Boatscribe says it is the first yacht-rental metasearch service to be integrated into Google Maps via Google Things To Do. As a result, yacht rentals now appear alongside flights, attractions and experiences within Google’s travel discovery environment.

Google Things to Do is free for companies to list their attractions at a basic level. Companies can optionally pay for Google Ads to increase visibility via cost-per-click to make their listings appear more prominently.

The boat rental market is receiving increased publicity recently. Two of the largest digital boat rental platforms in the United States have joined forces in a move that signals continued consolidation across the recreational marine technology sector.

Boatscribe aggregates structured yacht data from multiple charter operators, including availability calendars, pricing and vessel attributes, and maps this information to Google’s schema requirements. The company says this approach allows yacht rentals to be presented in a comparable format to other travel products available through Google’s platform.

According to Boatscribe, when users view marinas on Google Maps, yacht listings are displayed under the ‘booking options’ section. These listings show live availability, real-time pricing and links to complete bookings. The functionality is available on both web and mobile versions of Google Maps.

“If Google Things To Do accepts your inventory, your architecture is clean,” says Illia Kolomoiskyi, CEO and co-founder of Boatscribe. “This integration validates our data pipeline and positions yacht rentals as a first-class travel product inside Google Maps, where discovery actually begins.”

The first live yacht rental listing is currently visible on Google Maps at Ece Marina in Fethiye, Turkey. Boatscribe states that it plans to expand coverage across additional marinas in Greece, Croatia, Spain and Turkey through early 2026.