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Getting there by Air: Tips for Making Air Travel Easier for Your Divers

Our sport is equipment-intensive, which means the traveling diver has baggage. You’ve just outfitted your customers with new photography equipment, that top-of-the line computer and a variety of other dive gear that will help them get the most out of…

Donna AskewNovember 1, 2019

Dive Travel Business Profit Centers Travel

Going Green Is Good for Business: The Four Rs Of Green Travel

I would venture to guess that you and most of your customers attempt to reduce, reuse and recycle while at home. How about when traveling to local or faraway dive destinations? How thoughtful of these things are you once you've…

Donna AskewMay 10, 2019

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Selling the Exotic Destinations: Considerations at the High End Of Travel

South Africa. Following the sardine runs. Diving with the raggies (i.e., sand tiger or ragged tooth sharks)…. Do you leave the DEMA Show with visions of exotic dive destinations in your daydreams? Are you imagining yourself and your favorite customers…

Donna AskewNovember 7, 2012

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Profit on the Water: How to Size Up and Sell Live-aboard Diving for Your Customers

Every dive center has customers who just can't get enough time underwater. Two dives a day is a teaser for them. Give them a trip with up to five dives a day, add great food and have someone else care…

Donna AskewNovember 6, 2012

Dive Travel Business Marketing Retail Selling Travel Trip Leaders

One Diver at Time the Benefits Of Serving the Individual Traveler

A recurring theme in most conversations I have with dive centers these days is the importance of making money in creative and possibly overlooked ways. Many dive resorts, hotels and wholesalers offer commissions on individual travel booked by dive centers,…

Donna AskewNovember 5, 2012

Dive Travel Business Travel

A Feast Fit for a Diver…how to Arrange Topside Culinary Adventures for Your Dive Travel Customers

Venture outside the underwater world for a moment to see what interests your customers, besides blowing bubbles. You might be amazed at just how fascinated travelers are with the culinary possibilities of their destination. Most everyone has at least heard…

Donna AskewFebruary 3, 2009

Dive Travel Business Travel

Being There: How Dive Retailers Can Make the Best Use Of ‘fam’ Trips

So there you are at the 2005 DEMA (Diving Equipment and Marketing Association) trade show. Your primary goal this year is to get travel information. Your customers are asking about new dive destinations. Some of them want group trips. Others…

Donna AskewJanuary 14, 2009

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Waivers and Releases: Because I Say So

OK, here's your chance to ask a lawyer an extremely complex legal question and get a smarmy flippant answer. Q: Why do my insurance company and training agency require me to have all my students and rental customers sign a…

Tom Shapiro Esq.January 12, 2009

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