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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

Management Management 101 Travel

Going to the Show? How to Dema Like a Boss

You need to buy toothpaste. And toilet paper. Easy enough, right? You stop at a nearby megastore after work. Except it's been a long day and when you finally arrive at the store you're tired and a little hungry. Things…

Cathryn Castle GarciaOctober 22, 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

Exotic Destinations Profit Centers Travel

The Do-Good Dive Trip: How to Offer Dive Travel That Makes a Difference

“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” ~ William James, American Philosopher & Psychologist Do you find yourself depressed when watching or reading the news, seeing the decline of many marine species, the trash littering our oceans…

Donna AskewJuly 3, 2018

Marketing Marketing 101 Retail Selling 101 Selling Travel

What’s in Store for Your Customers? Building Business by Helping Your Customers Create a Bucket List

IT'S DIFFICULT TO SAY EXACTLY WHY ANY ONE INDIVIDUAL TAKES UP DIVING: so many facets of the sport are intriguing, attractive, enticing. But one thing we can depend on is this: once diving becomes a repetitive, ho-hum activity, divers are…

Robert N. RossierOctober 16, 2017

Retail Selling 101 Travel

DEMA’s Done: Where Does Your Travel Program Stand?

Let's remember back to mid-November of last year. The DEMA Show. Las Vegas. Got it? I know a lot has happened since then, but it's time to check in with your travel program plans. While at the show you attended…

Donna AskewSeptember 20, 2016

Legal Management

Scared out Of the Water: What Happens After the Unthinkable Happens

Editor's note: As an attorney who has been involved in the scuba industry since 1986, I've had some occasion to work with some highly skilled dive industry lawyers. I've had a front-row seat in scuba-related litigation and I can attest…

David Concannon EsqSeptember 25, 2014

Insurance Legal Management Operations

Keeping Up with the Jones Act: Beneath the Law’s Waters Swims a Great White Shark Of a Problem for Unaware Dive Boat Operators – Article 1.

Editor's note: Have you heard of the Jones Act? Do you understand it? If you say "no" to either or both of these questions, you're not alone. In fact, most attorneys aren't familiar with this law. The Jones Act is…

Richard Lesser Esq.March 3, 2014

Legal Loss Prevention Management Travel

Storm Warnings: How to Prepare and Protect Your Travel Customers in the Event Of Storms and Other Emergencies

In August 1992, 20 divers from my dive center were on the island of Bimini when warnings came that the Bahamian island (and South Florida) was in the projected path of Hurricane Andrew (a Category 5 hurricane). I was in…

Donna AskewMarch 2, 2014

Insurance Legal Loss Prevention Management Operations

Unsettled Waters: The Jones Act and Why You Need to Be Especially on Guard – Article Update

When I wrote about the effect of the Jones Act on the recreational scuba diving industry eight years ago in Dive Center Business, it appeared that after a rather unsettled history, admiralty law (the branch of law that deals with…

Richard Lesser Esq.March 2, 2014

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