Dream Outdoors

July 15, 2009

Established in 2004, Dream Outdoors is an Experience Management Company focused on providing consulting, design, and execution of extraordinary experiences for individuals, families, and corporations. We work with our clients through a proprietary process to identify their unique lifestyle passions, travel interests, personal or professional goals to customize the best travel experiences available in every market around the world. Sharing your love for and commitment to experiencing the world, we and our global network of partners provide one of a kind experiences for families, friends and colleagues whether for special occasions or simply the pursuit of their passions. No matter where your journey leads you, the Dream Outdoors seal represents a community dedicated to quality, authenticity and service excellence.

Although we provide client travel solutions in many interest and regional areas, our main focus is on;

Active Experiences – Outdoor enthusiasts today actively engage with the world, whether through culture, passions or nature. Dream Outdoors’ Active Experiences range from Golf, Rafting and Heli-Skiing to Kayaking, Eco-tourism, Trekking, Voluntourism and much more. Touch, taste, hear, and actively experience the world.

Sporting Experiences – Exotic game, unique locations. Pursue perdiz over pointing dogs in Uruguay or cast a fly to an elusive permit off the coast of the Yucatan Peninsula. For the ultimate in sporting travel Dream Outdoors takes you there and manages every detail. We specialize in Wingshooting, Waterfowl Hunting, Big Game Hunting, Salt and Fresh Water Fishing experiences around the globe.

Corporate Solutions – Many organizations struggle to make their meetings and incentives a strategic tool to drive results because of improper planning, the misalignment of business objectives, or lack a clear understanding of their participant’s interests. Dream Outdoors’ partners with corporations to create effective strategies and solutions focused on business goals and lifestyle passions. Whether you have seasoned resources that are looking for new creative solutions to drive results, or looking to expand your team’s capabilities without expanding your overhead, Dream Outdoors provides Fortune 500-level experience. A Dream Outdoors experience is meant to further your corporate vision, strengthen your most important client relationships, and reward top achievers in a manner that makes them embrace even greater success.

A Positive Partnership in a Negative Economy- The ROC Collection

We’ve always felt that there was a strategic element missing in many corporate events and that if positioned more effectively, corporations would see a much greater value in their strategic meeting plans. From 2004 to 2008 our team broadcast the message to the meeting and incentive community “Think Strategic Before It’s Too Late”. Then, tragically, “too late” was finally here and the economic downturn struck us all. These challenging times and new government “TARP” initiatives have forced many Corporate Executives and Meeting Professionals to re-visit their strategies ensuring decisions are driven by true business objectives at all levels—and that expenditures are tied to real returns. This has added additional stress on adventure travel supplier’s who are many times already seen as luxury providers rather than effective corporate tools.

At Dream Outdoors we believe that the future of more effective experiential corporate travel rests in a supplier’s ability to know the business objectives of its partners and integrate those diverse interests and objectives into a cohesive and productive travel experience. We practiced these standards of responsibility and effectiveness long before the current economic challenges that called all corporate travel and events into question. Our foundation has not changed and we are still focused on our strategic goal of assisting organizations to create return through unique experiences. We believe that destination based professional development, executive retreat, client appreciation, and employee incentive experiences are now more effective and important than ever before. At the Executive level, organizations are excited about a boutique partner that can provide them strategy and unique concepts without the long term contracts and high costs of larger firms.

In September 2009, Dream Outdoors will launch the “ROC Collection”, a unique portfolio of corporate active and sporting experiences that allow event participants an opportunity to enjoy a lifestyle passion while learning, networking, developing, and recognizing. These experiences offer organizations a wonderfully effective opportunity to continue utilizing unique destination events to meet their corporate objectives.

For ROC Collection active and adventure suppliers, a Dream Outdoors communications partnership offers an accelerated marketing niche and a smart value to boost business in these challenging times. By pooling resources and working together in the best interest of the collection, we have created an extremely targeted audience at sales events, through marketing publications, and also online. Your commitment to the collection offers expanded marketing reach through a combination of qualified email and direct marketing, regional sales events, and online presence as part of a portfolio of exceptional experiences.

The success of the collective marketing efforts will be gauged on increased opportunities. Our goal is not to find a way to sell to everyone through what we call “feature function selling”, but rather work with select partners that are ready for solutions and innovation. At Dream Outdoors we select partnerships with organizations interested in a small team of individuals with a large range of custom strategic capabilities. Through our knowledge of experiential learning, active travel industry, meetings marketplace and corporate objective needs, our team offers a unique approach when reviewing destination options.

We hope that ATTA supplier members will consider partnering with Dream Outdoors to expand the collection’s capability and most importantly our market share in the Corporate Meeting and Incentive space. Todd Gehrke – Director Leisure & Corporate Experiences – Dream Outdoors

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Wiser World Travel, LLC

May 26, 2009

Wiser World Travel, LLC represents respected tour operators who not only meet travelers’ needs with superior tours and itineraries around the world, but who demonstrate commitment to responsible travel and sustainability. WWT is unique in acting as a travel liaison between travelers and tour operators who provide itineraries with sustainable components, who support local people and host communities, who give back. We do not promote any particular tour operator, tour, itinerary, or accommodation, and offer wide choice and diversity to individual travelers and groups. There is no charge to travelers for our service. Our orientation is very personal and customer focused.

Why Wiser World Travel?

Choice and diversity of tours around the globe, basic to luxury, from a consortium of respected tour operators who have a commitment to responsible tourism.
Focus on ethical travel provided by network operators, striving to reduce negative impacts of tourism while creating long term benefits to the environment, local people, and cultures.
Matching travelers with the best sustainable travel options specific to their wants and needs, eliminating the need for travelers to spend their valuable time researching.

Mission

Wiser World Travel is committed to increasing awareness and encouraging actions regarding responsible travel that results in a healthier, sustainable world. Together with travelers and travel providers, we act in ways that support local people, communities, cultures, and environments. WWT matches travelers with the best sustainable options to meet their needs−with all the fun, enjoyment, and discovery that go along with travel.

Geographic Reach/Primary Markets

Because of the number and diversity of tour operators within the Wiser World network, the geographic reach available is vast. Although adventure travel is a common denominator among most of the operators, travel options abound, including but not limited to ecotours, cultural and/or volunteer experiences, biking, etc. Likewise, because of our partnerships with tour operators and the choice available through WWT, markets vary, from baby boomers seeking soft adventure travel to students seeking service-learning experiences, to the hard core adventurist!

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Wild Frontiers

March 17, 2009

WILD FRONTIERS, is an award-winning adventure travel company specializing in stylish and original small group tours and tailor-made holidays to some of the most interesting countries in Africa, Asia, Europe and South America.

Founded in 2002 by the acclaimed adventure travel writer, Jonny Bealby, on the premise of developing ‘a company run by travelers, for travelers’, our reputation has been forged by creating exciting itineraries that combine true off-the-beaten-track travel with a unique blend of luxury and adventure, a variety of transport and activities and fascinating cross-cultural interaction. We uncover the lives of the people as well as exploring the landscape, history, culture and cuisine, ultimately leaving our clients with the unforgettable experience of having journeyed beneath each region’s surface and discovered the heartbeat within. Destinations include Pakistan, India, Bhutan, Libya, Ethiopia, Iran, Syria, Yemen, Georgia, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, China, Colombia & Ecuador.

Responsible travel and sustainable tourism is an ethos Wild Frontiers has been committed to since our birth. Our adventures are designed with the local people, culture and eco-system in mind. We believe that a successful trip not only delivers a unique and unsurpassable journey for our clients, but that it also benefits the peoples whose lands we are privileged to visit.

Small Groups and ‘low-impact’ tourism

We strategically limit our group sizes to a maximum of 12 people (despite the fact that as a business it would be infinitely more lucrative to run with larger group sizes) because we feel strongly that our presence should be as unobtrusive and low key as possible. Whereas some tour operators run back-to-back trips around a destination, we limit our departures to one or two trips a year for most destinations, again ensuring a ‘low-impact’ style of tourism.

By keeping the number of visitors low and the trips infrequent we don’t ‘overload’ any particular area. Each trip is run with several months between departures, ensuring that the negative effects of “mass tourism” can be kept to a minimum. As we spearhead tourism into areas where most other companies do not venture, our aim is to bring an income to these areas, without making local people dependant on the tourist dollar.

The Wild Frontiers Foundation

In order to facilitate an enduring support structure for the communities we visit, and to show a commitment to these values, in Janurary 2009 Wild Frontiers set up a charitable foundation through which we can channel funds to both existing NGOs and our own development projects. In addition to organising ethically sensitive tours, having our own charitable foundation allows us to raise money – through the cost of our tours, charity trips and fund raising events – which can then be used to fund various projects in education, sanitation, reforestations and a number of other important issues facing developing communities. Wherever possible we are happy for our clients to visit these projects to see for themselves where and how this money is being spent. This is a very exciting development for us and something we hope in time will become a major part of our organisation.

Visit www.wildfrontiers.co.uk

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