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New Ownership Announced at Tourpreneur
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 the podcast and community to these three industry veterans. Hi everyone, today I wish to announce some major changes here […]
How Shifting Your Focus From ‘Educator’ to ‘Entertainer’ Can Impact the Tour Experience
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 it’s been like to transition from working as a duo-team tour operation to becoming a ‘team of one.’ We discuss […]
How TourOpp Helps Gray Line San Francisco to Increase Sales and Reviews
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 is a no sales pitch podcast so we invited a customer of TourOpp to join us and share why they […]
How To Staff Up Your Tour Business
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, tour business owners Brian Cain (CRAWL New Orleans) and Jarrod Riddle (Spirit of Arizona Tours) share lessons from the trenches […]
The Story Behind Taste of SLO Walking Food Tour
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 she networked and collaborated with bars and restaurants. She talks about the point in the journey she started investing in […]
How Liselot Started a Beer and Brewery Tour Business, the Story Behind BeerSecret
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 behind BeerSecret. She describes her beginnings in the brewery industry and reveals what led her to switch from sales and […]
Lessons Learned Starting a Tour Business in Paris During A Pandemic with Txango Tours
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 business, in fact, a sidecar motorcycle tour company during the COVID-19 pandemic. He explains the hoops, logistics, and licenses when […]
How You Can Increase Tour Bookings and Reviews with Photos
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 memories to market and create advocates for their business. He outlines the benefits of offering photo memories of the tour […]
Bike Tour Business, Bike Tours, Marketing for Tour Operators, Multi Day Tours, Podcast Episodes, Women Tourpreneurs
What I Learned Running a Tour Business for Over 30 Years
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 marketing tours, dealing with journalists, websites, hiring and managing tour guides and chatbots! Lauren Hefferon joins us to discuss how […]
How An Episode of Top Gear Inspired Jamie to Start His Own Tour business
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 describes his journey to being a tourpreneur and explains how an episode of the show, Top Gear, inspired him to […]
Navy Veteran reveals How She Built A Successful Winery And Brewery Tour Business
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 she created local partnerships with breweries and wineries and outlines how she designed her tour business from the ground up. […]
Arival San Diego, Day Tours, Food Tours, Podcast Episodes, Tour Operator Round Table, Walking Tours, Women Tourpreneurs
Arival San Diego – 9 Takeaways from 3 Tour Operators
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. I was keen to hear what first-time attendees of Arival thought of the event, so today we are joined by […]
Shane’s Big Hairy Audacious Instagram Reels Experiment
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 Instagram Reels for Tour Operators starting next week where he will try an experiment at Arival San Diego to see […]
11 Tour Operators Reveal the One ‘Game Changer’ Skill They Want to Focus on in 2022 to grow their business.
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 skill or competency they are focusing on to grow their business in 2022. If you are able to help our […]
AI Chatbots for Tour Operators and How They Helped Billy earn $60k in tour bookings.
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 how Billy of Arkansas River Tours is taking advantage of AI Chatbots to generate over $60k in bookings. Billy also […]
Tour Operators as Conduits of History & Culture with Michael Idriss (165)
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 issues on tours effectively and safely. They consider engaging travelers who discover an unpleasant aspect of their ancestors’ history while […]
Tour Operator Round Table – What We Learned at Tourism Innovation Summit – TIS Seville (164)
Today on Tourpreneur we hear from three listeners who attended the TIS Seville. What did they learn? And what are they going to do differently in their businesses as a result of attending? TIS is a new one for me so here is the official blurb. Tourism Innovation Summit is aimed to help tourism and travel industry […]
Digital Marketing Tips for Tour Operators with Evan Tipton Of TOMIS – meet the Marketing Agency (163)
Meet the Marketing Agency with TOMIS Welcome to the second session of our exclusive Meet the Marketing Agency series guest hosted by Social Media Strategist Shawn Teasley Evan, Billy, and Amada discuss digital marketing tips for tour operators, SEO best practices, Google Ads, and customer communications. They explore how by integrating AI chatbots, SMS chat, […]
Meet the Marketing Agency – TMA and two tour operators discuss Facebook Ads, Google Things to Do and Much More!
Tour Operator Round Table – How to work with a marketing agency! Meet the Marketing Agency is a brand new series on the Tourpreneur podcast! Social media expert, Social Tonic’s Shawn Teasley hosts a round table digital marketing for tour operators round table. She is joined by tourism marketing expert Chris Torres along with tour […]
Expanding Your Tour Brand through Podcasting with Danielle Desir
The Tour Operator Start Up is back and this tme we talk content creation. In this episode of the Tour Operator Start-Up Series, Sita, Ripley, and Danielle Desir discuss how to build a podcast to expand your brand. They break down the basics of creating a podcast and how Tour Operators can use it to […]