Top ten adventure travel destinations you didn’t know about (Part I)

Have you ever think about where you can do adventure Tourism? Today, we’ll talk about five adventure travel destinations you didn’t know about.

1. Latvia: Tiny Latvia counts with around 350 miles of coastline. Near Jurmala, where you can find the most popular seaside resort in the Baltic region, the dense forests of Kemeri National Park are famous for the bird watching from observation towers. Also, in Riga, the capital, you can find Latvian Open-Air Ethnographic Museum, one of the oldest and largest at Europe, with some 118 historic structures and where you can do some activities like ice-fishing or bread-making.

2. Romania: visitors that come to Romania wants to camp and do hiking in the Carpathian Mountains, to explore the painted monasteries of northern Moldavia and to experience medieval cities surrounded by traditional villages. Moreover, the Danube River finishes nearly 1.800 mile trek from Germany to here, and its delta offers 2.200 square miles of canal, marshes, lakes and islands to visit. 

3. Jordan: the main attractive is Petra, an entire city carved out of a stone canyon hidden in the southern desert. But for an adventure tourism, Northern Jerash and Amman counts with numerous Roman ruins, and there are also nature reserves comprise gorges and desert lowlands, including the reserve at Mujib, the world’s lowest at 410 below sea level and near Dead Sea with around 300 plan species. A special attractive to do some hiking or even visit by camel.

4. Slovenia: a nation that stretches from the Alps to the Mediterranean. In addition to do hiking, cycling and water sports (like rafting) there are also 8.000 caves to visit by foot or by bike (visit underworldly formations).

5. Bulgaria: ski during winter and summers on the Black Sea, with a mountainous terrain which is great for hiking and climbing, like Pirin Mountains. Moreover, Bulgaria hosts a 1.200km endurance bike race through the mountains.

 

What do you think? Do you want to travel there to do some hiking or bicing? In a few days we'll put another five adventure travel destinations that are interesting.

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Adventure tourism expands in Tahiti

Maybe the most part of the people would experiment the adventure tourism in exotic places like: South Africa, Caribbean, Rivera Maya etc… But now, the lover of the Pacific will enjoyed of the wonderful activities of adventure tourism in the South Pacific, specifically in Tahiti.

The company Tahiti Expeditions has joined with ATTA (Adventure Travel Trade Association) because they want exploit thus potential market and together, they will become to a lot of people. First of all Tahiti Expeditions is the only inbound tour operator that is dedicated to providing high quality adventures throughout French Polynesia focusing on the nature and culture of this island paradise.  

The company offers to the consumer specials packs to the consumer like: Day Excursions and Expeditions. The activities and subjects that they cover are: hiking, snorkeling, sea kayaking, coral reefs or bird watching. The products are meant for anyone that is interested in exploring the natural and cultural world of Polynesia.

The continuously increase of the tourism in this part of the world causes some positive effects like: an increase of the work and provoques a reduction of the unemployment, also an increase of the conscience to the nature and fauna of the zone and for instance more benefits to Tahiti.

What do you believe? Are you ready to this new adventure in the South Pacific?

TUI Travel signs a joint venture with Intrepid Travel

TUI Travel announce the agreement with Intrepid Travel (by a joint-venture), a group of touroperators specialized in adventure tourism, to create a new global brand in that segment and increase in the adventure tourism market.

Darrell Wade of Intrepid Travel and Darren Mee of TUI Travel launch PEAK Adventure Group

The combined business will operate with a multichannel and multibrand strategy and will bring up new growing opportunities.

This move is based on the contribution of the business that each touroperator has in this area and has no cash component. The new company will be owned by TUI Travel by 60%, while the remaining 40% belong to private shareholders of Intrepid Travel.

With this transaction is expected to generate synergies, especially caused by the increased economy of scale, at least 10 million pounds (11.8 million euros) per year during the first three years.

Intrepid Travel is based in Melbourne, Australia, and serves about 100,000 customers a year, from the major tourism markets in the world of adventure, as explained from TUI. For the financial year ended 30 June 2010 had revenues of 69.4 million pounds and 5.3 million pounds of profit before tax.

For its part, the adventure tourism businesses of TUI Travel are based in UK, Australia, North America and the Netherlands, serving some 240,000 clients per year. At the end  of  financial year on September 30 generated revenues of £ 185.3 million and profit before tax of 6.8 million pounds.

The combined business will operate with multichannel and multibrand strategy, and bring to TUI, new growth opportunities, including new products, distribution channels, markets and destinations.

The chief executive of TUI Travel Plc, Peter Long, has commented on this operation that specialization is an important part of the business of the company and "a key driver of growth given the strong margins and development opportunities."

Ensures that the alliance with Intrepid Travel is an important occasion to improve its position in the field of adventure. "We believe this company has a great potential for value creation through increased scale, synergies and growth of our combined businesses."

The Board of the new company will be headed by the director general of Specialist & Activity Sector of TUI Travel Plc., John Wimbleton, and the CEO is the CEO and founder of Intrepid Travel, Darrell Wade.

In conclusion, this type of agreements creating a joint-venture causes that some companies can expand their business and trying to make a new way for their service specializating it and change their loses to benefits.

Olympic Games: an opportunity for your business

Have you ever think about how another Olympic Games can affect at Spain? 

Truly the opportunity of generate money in a country during Olympic Games it’s a way to create a new business or consolidate your own business. But moreover it’s an opportunity to get a job.

For example, in the last Olympic Games at London, it invested around 15.000$ millions giving the possibility to 75.000 companies to get a work for Olympic Games and generating around 200.000 jobs to people. 

Then, for a hotel it’s a good opportunity to expand his business if we talk about an Olympic Games’ vision, because working together with government makes to these companies the possibility of an increase of their prices and having all-reserved during this Olympic Games.

But there’s not only an opportunity to hotels. Other companies like distributors of meal, beverage…, Durex (yes, Durex), G4S (security company), Rio Tinto (the company that distribute metals for medals), etc. have a really good opportunity to increase in a forceful way their sales. 

Finally, we need to talk about the economy of the country. Olympic Games, apart from being an opportunity of create a business or increase your sales; it’s a way to grow up your economy. As we can see in the next graphic, UK economy had growth by 1%, solving a lot of problems for government. 

Then, what do you think about an Olympic Games at Spain? Could it return to Spain in a good economy position? Could have an impact as 1992’s Olympic Games at Barcelona? Maybe one day we will know this…