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Author: Shane Whaley
New Ownership Announced at Tourpreneur
May 11, 2022
Tourpreneur Founder, Shane Whaley leaves show for new industry challenge. After three years, Tourpreneur’s Shane Whaley announces why he is leaving the show and revealed why he is thrilled to hand over the reins of ...
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How Shifting Your Focus From ‘Educator’ to ‘Entertainer’ Can Impact the Tour Experience
April 27, 2022
P The Tour Operator Start Up with Nikki Padilla Rivera Today, Sita Sargeant joins Nikki Padilla Rivera to share some of the major changes that are currently happening at She Shapes History. Sita explains what ...
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How TourOpp Helps Gray Line San Francisco to Increase Sales and Reviews
April 13, 2022
Spotlight on Tour Operator Tools, Tech and Apps! In this episode we throw the spotlight on TourOpp in a brand new series where we learn more about tech, tools and apps for tour operators. Tourpreneur ...
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How To Staff Up Your Tour Business
April 6, 2022
How to Grow Your Tour Business Today, we share tips and advice on staffing up your tour business and explain how to identify the right time to add employees to your tour company. Our guests, ...
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The Story Behind Taste of SLO Walking Food Tour
March 29, 2022
Angee joins us today to share how she built and grew Taste of SLO Walking Food Tour. She discusses how she researched the San Luis Obispo tourism market before starting her business and outlines how ...
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How Liselot Started a Beer and Brewery Tour Business, the Story Behind BeerSecret
March 23, 2022
Liselot Caura reveals how she took her brewery tour business BeerSecret from a side hustle to a full-time business and outlines some of the challenges she faced. Liselot joins us today to share the story ...
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Lessons Learned Starting a Tour Business in Paris During A Pandemic with Txango Tours
March 16, 2022
Starting a Parisian Sidecar Tour Experience during a Pandemic with Simon Burke of Txango Tours The Tour Operator Start Up series is back, Simon Burke joins Nikki Padilla Rivera today to discuss starting a tour ...
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How You Can Increase Tour Bookings and Reviews with Photos
March 8, 2022
Ryan O’Grady, the founder of Fotaflo joins us today to share how we can increase tour bookings and reviews with guest photos, which he calls ‘memory marketing.’ Ryan explains how tour businesses can leverage photo ...
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What I Learned Running a Tour Business for Over 30 Years
March 2, 2022
Lauren’s Lessons Learned Running a Bike Tour Business for 31 Years Today’s guest shares with us some of her lessons from 30 years of running a tour business. We cover a lot of ground including ...
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How An Episode of Top Gear Inspired Jamie to Start His Own Tour business
February 23, 2022
How Jamie Built an Experiences Business Around Two Iconic Cars Jamie Robinson joins us today sharing his journey of starting a tour business. He divulges his tactics to effective, authentic marketing on a budget. He ...
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Navy Veteran reveals How She Built A Successful Winery And Brewery Tour Business
February 16, 2022
From Navy cryptographer to successful tour business owner. Renee Ventrice of Cork and Keg Tours joins us today to discuss how she built a luxury winery and brewery tours business. She walks us through how ...
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Arival San Diego – 9 Takeaways from 3 Tour Operators
February 9, 2022
Food Tour, Walking Tour and Day Tour owners share their learnings and takeaways! Today we hear from 3 tour operators who attended the in-person Arival San Diego event, they share what they learned and experienced. ...
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8 tools and tricks to drive more direct bookings to your tour/activity business
February 1, 2022
From email marketing software to paid search marketing, In this guest post, Xola share 8 tips and tricks to boost your company’s direct bookings. It’s no secret that Online Travel Agencies (a.k.a. OTAs) can ...
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Shane’s Big Hairy Audacious Instagram Reels Experiment
January 28, 2022
Instagram Reels for Tour Operators We are receiving more and more questions from tour operators who want to learn Instagram Reels but are unsure where to start. These questions have inspired Shane to dig into ...
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11 Tour Operators Reveal the One ‘Game Changer’ Skill They Want to Focus on in 2022 to grow their business.
January 11, 2022
On today’s Tourpreneur, the activity and tour operator podcast: It’s January, a time for new years resolutions and goal setting. In today’s episode, Tourpreneur Host Shane Whaley asked 11 activity and tour operators what one ...
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A new way of looking at guests’ expectations
January 7, 2022
‘Even a single negative review can turn away up to 30 prospective visitors, so you must do what you can to regain control over the expectation.’ Josh Liebman Guest Experience Evangelist for ROLLER Software, Guests’ ...
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Arival San Diego Update
December 28, 2021
Here is the latest Arival San Diego update. In an email dated December 22nd. the events company for the tours and activities sector have confirmed the following health & safety protocols for the Arival San ...
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AI Chatbots for Tour Operators and How They Helped Billy earn $60k in tour bookings.
December 21, 2021
Tour Operator Tech AI Chatbots for Tour Operators? Really? Aren’t AI Chatbots for big banks and airlines rather than tour businesses? Listen to short extract of an interview with Evan Tipton of TOMIS who explains ...
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3 Digital Marketing Tips For Tour Operators That Are Proven to Boost Tour Sales
December 7, 2021
There are thousands of digital marketing tools, agencies, self-proclaimed gurus and advice listicles out there. Sifting through the ones that are relevant can seem like a monumental task. So when we have the opportunity to ...
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Tour Operators as Conduits of History & Culture with Michael Idriss (165)
December 1, 2021
The Tour Operator Start Up Series on the Tourpreneur Podcast In this episode, our guests discuss how tour operators can facilitate conversations toward understanding diverse history. They also explore how tour operators can discuss historical ...
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