Podcast episodes, webinar recaps and practical takeaways from the operators and experts shaping the tour and activity industry.
Mitch Bach and Pete Syme step away from guest interviews this week to talk through three in-person events Tourpreneur is running this fall: two retreats in Porto and Tourpreneur CONNECT in Louisville.
Jeanette Pierce runs City Institute, a Detroit tour and learning-journey company built entirely around a customer most operators ignore: the local. For twenty years, starting when Detroit was headed toward bankruptcy, she has sold custom, private tours to corporations, universities, and community groups instead of tickets to the public.
Ray Bretzloff of BugMe.travel joins Pete Syme to lay out a collaborative alternative to tourism discovery: a non-gatekeeping map and a flat 20% road trip pass that keeps value in the local community.
Kevin Currie is Director of New Scientist Discovery Tours, the travel arm of the 70-year-old science media brand. In 2019, he joined to scale what three journalists had started as a side project, got 20 tours to 86% sold before their first departure, then lost everything to COVID. He’s been…
Hana Robinson of Drop Bear Adventures joined Tourpreneur to walk through the five forces reshaping tour operators in 2026 and the specific tools she built with Dazhboards to automate repetitive tasks, consolidate guest communications, and reach over 90% direct booking revenue.
Lucas Davies and Alejandro Velásquez explain how to build a live virtual tour revenue stream alongside your in-person operations. Alejandro has been running weekly virtual tours for US public libraries since COVID, and it’s now his primary income.
Chris Torres, Tourism Marketing Agency, opens with a truth most tour operators feel but rarely state: your descriptions answer the wrong question. They explain what happens. They don’t explain what it means.
One operator Icare Duplessy worked with went from $22,000 a year to $250,000 a month within six weeks of activating a B2B partnership strategy. The revenue did not come from better SEO, new ads, or a rebuilt website. It came from identifying who was already serving their ideal travelers and…
Cherrye Moore had been working on the same problem for years. Her five-person multi-day Italy operation was running on color-coded spreadsheets, manually rebuilt checklists, and a team spread across continents with no shared picture of what was happening or what came next. She tried Monday.com. She tried building things with…
When you search your destination’s high-intent keywords on Instagram or TikTok, creator posts surface at the top. Your brand account is not there. Tony Carne, co-founder of Videreo, explains how creator partnerships fix that.
