| Are you dreading giving another sweater, scarf, or | | | | away jungle! Maybe they would like to take a trek |
| designer tie to your loved one this year? Your loved | | | | thru Peru on a llama's back! Perhaps they would like |
| one may have every purchasable product they could | | | | to harvest wine grapes in Italy and stomp them in |
| possibly need or want. However, do they have | | | | large vats with the locals! On the other hand, maybe |
| adventure? Do they have excitement? If you could | | | | helicopter over a volcano and then hike to the edges |
| give them a gift that would make their eyes light up | | | | of its lava flow is more their style? Can they imagine |
| and their pulse race, that would let them escape | | | | themselves or their loved ones being taught to be a |
| from a life of boredom and routine and experience | | | | stunt driver or leap from tall buildings (while being |
| the adrenaline rush of a lifetime, wouldn't you do so | | | | filmed, of course!)? The scope of these excursions is |
| in an instant? Well you are not the only one! There is | | | | only limited by your imagination. If it can be imagined, |
| a growing market of people looking to give more | | | | in today's age, it can be arranged. Since you will be |
| than the average box gift wrapped with ribbon and | | | | coordinating the travel, accommodations, and lessons |
| topped off with a bow and gift card. These people | | | | or on-site activities, it will be a hassle-free, unique, |
| want to give the gift of adventure and excitement. | | | | and exciting trip for the recipient! |
| This is where you come in! | | | | Contact your local tourist office for some ideas and |
| You could create adventure gift packages - all you | | | | destination pricing structures. Make travel magazines |
| need to do is arrange travel and accommodations, | | | | and books your best friends. You will want to offer a |
| and coordinate guides and any needed equipment, so | | | | range of travel packages, including some more |
| that your clients can purchase your adventure | | | | moderately priced and then some that would only be |
| packages and not have to worry about a thing! You | | | | possible to the most affluent of travelers. Most |
| would be the intermediary, arranging things with | | | | people looking for the adventure of a lifetime are not |
| vendors and sorting out the details to bring these | | | | going to be concerned with the price tag involved. Be |
| adventure gifts to those who want to buy them. | | | | sure to market to those who have money to spare. |
| You will be a booking agent and should charge around | | | | Your marketing goals should be to get your business |
| 10 percent of the total cost of your adventure | | | | in front of people who are searching for that perfect |
| package. All you will need are a computer, a phone, | | | | gift for the person who has it all. Ask yourself and |
| and good people skills.Himalayan Mountains, etc. | | | | determine where these people can be found? |
| Remember, your goal should be to arrange a trip that | | | | In addition to networking with those in the travel |
| will challenge and excite. Your trips will be exposing | | | | industry, you may want to advertise your travel |
| them to new and exciting experiences, and these | | | | packages by running a visible ad in local newspapers |
| experiences you provide will constitute the trip of a | | | | and phone directories. Don't forget to list your |
| lifetime! | | | | business with any applicable online business directories |
| Choose wild destinations and trips that include such | | | | and also print up flyers and post them in places |
| things as drag racing lessons, skydiving, jet skiing, | | | | where professionals and nonprofessional people in |
| white water rafting, hiking the | | | | your area would more likely frequent. Be sure to |
| Perhaps they have always dreamed of running with | | | | take advantage of any public bulletin boards in your |
| the bulls in Spain! Maybe they are more the type that | | | | immediate area to find the people who are looking |
| would like to safari, and get up close and personal | | | | for you and your services. In no time at all, you will |
| with the wild animals, in Africa. Maybe they would like | | | | have built up a large client base, many by word of |
| to live with the Eskimos in Alaska or follow a polar | | | | mouth after experiencing the once-in-a-lifetime trips |
| bear migration! Maybe they would like to be involved | | | | you have planned for them! |
| in saving an endangered species of animals in a far | | | | |