This is article #4 in a 5 part Start up series for tour and activity travel businesses. In working with travel start ups a consistent theme I come across is the lofty sales expectations the founders place on themselves and their start up at launch. I believe this to be a huge mistake that reduces [...]
5 Tips to starting a successful tours and activity travel business. This is Tip #3. In the first two articles I wrote about how to partner and package to help your start up get business in the early stages. This third article is about implementing a simple distribution system so at launch you have other [...]
This guest post is written by Graham Robertson who currently works as an operations Team Leader for a global online travel company and devotes an obsessive amount of time to following current travel news and trends. You can follow Graham at his blog, Project Wander, or via Twitter at @Grayum_Ian. Its hard to go online [...]
Prerequisites: You have your website set-up, you’ve organized your tours, and now you want to make it easy for your customers to book your tours and activities on-line. Estimated Time for Completion: 20 min reading time Details: Your customers are already doing their research and booking on-line. In fact, over 70% of travelers do their [...]
During the first month of the Savvy Operator series we covered the basics of getting your tourism business started on-line. Given that over 80% of tourism business have no web presence or only a partial web presence, this introduction is a great place to start if you want to get your feet wet. [...]
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