Touring, Planning, And Carving A Future
Now that spring is here, tour season is about to begin
. I emailed the company that I usually run tours for to let them know that I'm available. The reply was quick in coming, that the season was slow due to the bad economy, but that they expected to have work for me from June through September. That fits right into my schedule, and so I am starting to mentally prepare for the jobs. All of my tourists are Japanese, and so I need to know the words for things like "sand stone," and "geyser." If I'm lucky, they will also provide me with a remote key replacement for our tour vehicles. I also have some ideas from past experience that will make my job a little easier.I recently visited the Grand Canyon with my family, and that National Park is one of the main points on most of my tours. We always have a problem with people making it back to the gathering point on time to move on to the next location. I was thinking that I could contact the park and find out how long it takes to return to the shuttle stop from each of the points along the way and use that to list the time that they need to be back on the shuttle in order to make it back on time. That alone would make my life so much easier.
I also need to contact the helicopter tour companies to find out what their rates are this year. We get a very generous kickback from those companies if we can convince our guests to take a flight, and so I need to know their rates, schedules, and the amount I get paid per person. All of that goes into the planning for the tour, and since I am pretty good at convincing people that they need to jump on this once in a lifetime opportunity, I make a lot of money from the flights.
All in all, it looks like it will be a lucrative and fun summer. One of the nice side effects is that I have an amazing networking opportunity, collecting contact information and making new friends. I have some other business ideas relative to Japan, and I expect to meet people who can help make these things happen. If nothing else, at least I'll have some more people to visit the next time I go back to Japan.
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