Tour Entrepreneur: Multi-Day Domestic & Int'l Tours - International Tour Management Institute

If you have been thinking about creating these types of tours:

International tours
Multi-day excursions (several days departing from a city and coming back to that city)
Overnight trips
Student trips where you may need to factor in complimentary trips for the chaperone/teacher
Over the road programs where you may need to comp a group leader in addition to having the guide/TD complimentary
Regional tours
Domestic tours that include flights or not
Handling flight reservations and group bookings
Including group or individual airport transfers in costs
Handling visas or entry cards for international visitors to foreign countries

Join us for this study-at-your-own-pace Domestic & International Multi-Day Tour Training + Individual Coaching session.

The Tour Entrepreneur Multi-Day Tour Training includes:

4 On-Demand classes to watch when you want as many times as you want
One 30-minute one-on-one coaching session with instructor post-class
Module 1 available starting June 25th and new modules to come each week
Additional resources and templates will be provided

You will learn:

Module 1:

Considerations for international and domestic tours, including insurance, local laws, and other important factors
Understanding the difference between tour series and ad hoc or custom tours

Module 2:

Building out multi-day itineraries and planning all the components, including hotels, transportation, and other time-sensitive reservations
How to contract with vendors and hold space for groups or FIT departures, including seasonality, release dates, and deposits

Module 3:

Pricing out multi-day tours including factors not already covered in the local tour segment
Partnering with DMC’s, other tour operators or companies to operate and/or sell your tours

Module 4:

Other ways to market your tours and fill your buses
Creating registration forms, emergency contact forms,
Wrap Up Session

Course Curriculum

Total learning: 35 lessons

Annette is passionate about travel, particularly to places she loves. She has undergraduate degrees in Hotel/Restaurant/Tourism Management and French, and an MBA in Hospitality. Annette graduated from ITMI in 2000, right after graduating from college. She has now been in the industry for over 20 years, starting off as a tour director in Italy and France for Collette, and then moving on to work for them as a Product Manager where she planned, contracted, and created itineraries as well as oversaw all operations for the countries she was in charge of. The skills gained as a Product Manager have been the backbone to everything else she has been able to achieve in her tourism career. Her strong connections to Italy, led her to move there from the US, where she spent 11 years exploring every corner, experiencing the culture and history, and sampling all of the delicious foods and wines the country is known for. Annette then became Director of Operations for Cuba Travel Services, where she assisted many US Tour Operators in developing their people-to-people programs to Cuba and managed the operations of all travel-related programs for the company. Annette keeps busy these days overseeing two companies from her home-base in Miami yet still manages to sneak in local guiding and overseas tour directing whenever she can. Annette is the managing partner of the North America division of Whisper System, a company that provides radio guide systems for guided group tours, and managing partner of Daiquiri Tours, where she organizes travel programs to Cuba, Italy, Portugal, Spain, France and other parts of Europe and the world. She also recently spearheaded the founding of her local Chamber of Commerce in the City of Miami Springs, where she is acting President. One of her greatest accomplishments is being an instructor at ITMI, where she can share her passion for her industry with new students, fellow instructors and fellow alumni.