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How to Start a Walking Tour Business with no tours experience.
February 12, 2020
Tour Operator Steve Chapman talks to Tourpreneur Host Shane Whaley sharing lessons he has learned about starting a walking tour business in a small historic town with zero tourism experience. This is the story behind ...
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Stephen Oddo and Walks…Not Just a Walking Tour Company
February 10, 2020
Today we’ve got the Tourpreneur spotlight out, and we’ve swung it on Mr. Stephen Oddo, CEO, and co-founder of Walks. Tourpreneur’s Shane Whaley pulls back the curtain on Walks and discovers how the company began ...
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How Tour Operator Invisible Cities Is Helping the Homeless.
January 30, 2020
Zakia Moulaoui of Invisible Cities has built an entire enterprise around employing the homeless to give walking tours of their cities. Read on to see how she has developed this incredible business with a focus ...
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The Tourpreneur Daily Brief 10 Most Popular Tours and Activities News Stories of 2019
December 20, 2019
What tours and activities news stories intrigued readers of our daily Tourpreneur Brief in 2019? The Brief is read daily by almost 1000 tour operators and tour professionals. Below you can read the top 10 ...
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How Nick Wilson Built a Wicked Wine and now a Weed Tour (56)
December 19, 2019
Nick Wilson shares with us how he leveraged his experience working at a luxury hotel to create Wicked Wine Tours and more recently the Wicked Weed Tour. Nick loves wine and always wanted to build ...
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What To Ask A Digital Marketing Agency before Hiring Them For Your Tour Business -with Tom Kratsch (55)
December 18, 2019
Tom Kratsch of the digital marketing agency, Activities and Tours Marketing by TRK Creative Group sat down with Tourpreneur Host Shane Whaley, and shares some tips from his 25 years in digital tourism marketing and ...
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Arival Review. Alice and Torin from Episode 1 review their second Arival (and share what they are going to do differently as a result of attending.) 54
December 17, 2019
Arival Review – Second Time Attendees give us their thoughts on Arival Orlando. Alice and Torin (The Flying Bike Guided Bike Tours, Asheville) who appeared on Episode 1 of the Tourpreneur Podcast sat down with ...
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Tour Operator Success Strategies – Tips From My 22 Years in the Tour Business with Todd Kersey (53)
December 16, 2019
How to grow your tour operator business. Success Strategies Todd Kersey of iOutdoors.com sat down with Tourpreneur Host Shane Whaley, and shares some tips from his 22 years as a tour operator and reveals some ...
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Why our Multi-Day Tours are Truly Immersive with Bindlestiff Tours Robert Graff. (51)
December 11, 2019
With over two decades of professional experience in sales and marketing in the travel and transportation industry, Robert Graff serves as Vice President of Marketing and Sales for Bindlestiff Tours, a Day and Multi-Day Tours ...
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Website Tips for Tour Operators with TourismTiger Founder Matthew Newton (50)
December 10, 2019
TourismTiger‘s Matt Newton is one of the most experienced and knowledgable people I know when it comes to marketing tours and in today’s episode, he shares some top website tips for tour operators. His book ...
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TV and Movie Tours in NYC with On Location Tours Founder, Georgette Blau (49)
December 9, 2019
From Sex in the City to The Sopranos and now Superhero TV and Movie Tours in NYC – How On Location Tours is Thrilling TV and Movie Fans Georgette Blau is the founder of On ...
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How We Moved to the Caribbean and Built a Boat Tour Business from Scratch (48)
December 9, 2019
Ellen Mannaert left her corporate job in Holland to start up a boat tour operator in Punta Cana. In this candid interview, Ellen of Breakers Boat Trips Punta Cana shares her lessons on not just ...
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The Story of Key West Food Tours with Founder, Annalise Smith (47)
December 6, 2019
Annalise Smith is the founder of Key West Food Tours, rated #1 for food tours in Key West on Tripadvisor. Annalise sat down with Tourpreneur Host Shane Whaley, and shared the origin story and mission ...
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Why Sixthrills Strive To Be The ‘B Side’ Of Tours In Their City. With Pedro Demarche (46)
December 5, 2019
What exactly is the ‘B side’ of tours? Pedro DeMarche, of Spanish tour operator, Sixthrills sat down with Tourpreneur Host Shane Whaley, and shared more about the mission of their company. This episode and interview ...
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What is the mission of Toursbylocals? With CEO Paul Melhus (45)
December 4, 2019
In this inspirational episode, Paul Melhus, the founder of Toursbylocals sat down with Tourpreneur Host Shane Whaley, and shared more about the mission of Toursbylocals Paul tells us how he was inspired to start Toursbylocals ...
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Digital Marketing Tips For Tour Operators with Jaden Cymbaluk (44)
December 3, 2019
In this episode, we talk all about digital marketing tips for tour operators. At Arival Orlando. Digital Marketing expert Jaden Cymaluk of IWerx Connect sat down with Tourpreneur Host Shane Whaley Jaden generously shares digital ...
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How We Built a Movie Tour Business with Atlanta Movie Tours’ Founder Carrie Burns (43)
December 2, 2019
Carrie Burns is a movie buff who built a tour operator business around films. She sat down with Tourpreneur Host Shane Whaley and explained how Atlanta Movie Tours started, how they market their movie tours, ...
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‘My mission is to get people of color into the outdoors and in nature’ says Tour Operator Mina Okpi (42)
November 27, 2019
The Mission of Black Outdoor Adventurers with Founder Mina Okpi. I noticed that a lot of people of color and black people weren’t outdoors and taking advantage of the healing that I thought nature was ...
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Social Media Tips for Tour Operators (41)
November 26, 2019
3 Free Social Media Tips for Tour Operators. 10 minutes with Arival’s Social Media Strategist Shawn Teasley. Shawn Teasley sat down with Tourpreneur Podcast Host Shane Whaley and shared three social media tips for tour ...
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Meet Nicole Will of Asheville Wellness Tours (40)
November 25, 2019
10 minutes with Nicole Will of Asheville Wellness Tours. Nicole Will sat down with Tourpreneur Podcast Host Shane Whaley and shared why she decided to start her own tour business having worked as a tour ...
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