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