The global tourism market is growing by 5% annually. What other areas of business in tourism exist besides organizing travel agencies, hotels and hostels? In this collection, we have collected 25 alternative business ideas in the field of tourism and seasonal entertainment, and also supplemented them with guides and business plans for opening.

In Europe, the share of farm income from receiving vacationers reaches 40%. In Russia, agritourism is not yet so developed, but this area has prospects for development. If you have your own country plot in an area that boasts beautiful natural landscapes, you can turn it into an agricultural estate and receive guests from the city who are tired of the delights of civilization.

Zipline is an extreme attraction, the essence of which is a high-speed descent on a steel rope. The main difficulty of this tourism business lies in selecting a location (usually a hilly and picturesque area is chosen), installing a line (there are practically no companies offering such services) and resolving bureaucratic issues. On the other hand, due to the fact that the descent time ranges from 25 to 60 seconds, the zipline has a high throughput, and the cost of a ticket for one descent can vary from 350 to 1,500 rubles.

The tourism package business is rapidly losing its position. More and more tourists are choosing independent travel. However, the process of planning such trips is quite labor-intensive, so today there are more and more personal travel services that allow clients to indicate their interests (gastronomic tourism, educational destination, entertainment, etc.) in a few clicks, select route cities and attractions, places to visit, as well as modes of transportation and budget. It remains up to the entrepreneur to combine all these key points into one unique route.

Corn mazes are a popular entertainment in America and Europe, which has not yet reached our country: this niche is completely free in Russia. Networks of passages are laid out in corn fields and quests are created for fun companies, families and work groups to complete. A corn maze can not only be an interesting seasonal entertainment business, but also become a center of attraction for tourists from other regions.

City walking tours allow tourists to delve deeper into the history of the streets, explore objects and imagine themselves as participants in past events. An interesting direction in this tourism business is conducting excursions with thematic mini-performances. You can launch such a project for less than 50 thousand rubles.

The costs of organizing your own excursion bureau with organizing excursions around the region and purchasing a tour bus will be much higher. For this business idea, you will need about 5.85 million rubles, and the starting investment will cover approximately 17 months of work.

Zorbing is an extreme type of attraction. The idea of ​​the business is to lower a person in a transparent ball (zorb) from a hill or cross a body of water inside this ball. Zorbing is another type of tourism business that is practically not represented in our country and is waiting for its pioneers.

Organizing hikes is an area with an extremely wide range of formats. Hikes can have an educational focus or include physical education and health activities; there are ski, mountain, water hikes, circular and linear routes, long tours and weekend tours. The main advantage of hiking businesses is that they can bring together different groups of people. There are fishing, hunting, photo tours, tours for businessmen and so on. As a rule, this business is seasonal.

This type of educational leisure activity, such as survival courses, is popular abroad. Classes are divided into theoretical and practical parts, the latter of which takes place in natural conditions. Course participants are taught first aid, how to build a shelter, make a fire, and get water and food far from civilization. A former military man, firefighter or rescuer can start such a business. In large cities, for a two-day survival course, presenters receive from 5-6 thousand rubles. per person.

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Mother Nature is increasingly being seen by entrepreneurs as a huge hall for business training. The idea of ​​business tourism is that for six-figure sums, company owners and ordinary managers are taken on extreme tours, taught to act together and reach mountain peaks, drawing parallels with business development. In between ascents, a business coach informs business tourists about the concepts of the “Blue and Scarlet Oceans,” conducts metaphorical business games and helps build their “Value Curve” or “Success Map.”

The construction of a guest house is a rather expensive project, but compared to a hotel it has a number of advantages: the land plot does not need to be classified as commercial, there is no need for a star rating, the organization of a restaurant, and highly qualified personnel are not required. The risks when creating a guest house are minimal, and the market is stable enough to generate generally passive income.

The growing popularity of domestic destinations in tourism makes such a type of business as the organization of private paid beaches relevant. It is attractive due to its ability to organize a whole range of paid services, including secure parking, rental of sports equipment, gazebos and barbecues, entrance to the beach, sale of barbecue, soft drinks and other things.

Backpacks have become one of the most popular wearable accessories, which are popular not only among schoolchildren and tourists, but also among ordinary citizens. To open your online store, you will need about 425 thousand rubles, which, with the right approach, can pay for itself in just three months of work.

Off-road tours (jeeping tours) are a business in demand in all difficult-to-pass areas: in mountains, deserts, forests and endless fields. There is practically no competition in this area in our country, so your main concern will be issues with selecting a vehicle, organizing an interesting route and advertising. There are many options for earning money here: you can organize tours in your own cars, rent them out, or provide an equipped track for rent - for holding competitions among owners of jeeps, ATVs, etc.

There are still ideas for making money out of thin air in the business world. One of these ideas is the production and/or sale of inflatable loungers (bivans). To bring them into working condition, a person only needs to make a couple of swings and fill the parachute fabric with air. The accessory is very popular among tourists and lovers of outdoor recreation. Sales of lamzaks can be organized through a one-page website or social networks.

How to get tourists to buy old and torn rubber slippers? In Kenya, they found the answer to this question: from the flip-flops lost by vacationers, local artisans create rubber souvenirs with national flavor. You don’t have to go far to get the material - the sea washes your torn slippers ashore.

Residents of seaside resorts know very well that a cool souvenir can be made from anything. Even the most ordinary pebble stones can be sold for a lot of money if you present them to the buyer in an unusual way. This is what the Italian artist Ernestina Gallina does, for example. She paints amazingly beautiful fairy-tale scenes and animals on round pebbles with acrylic paints.

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Old decommissioned buses can be used as unique hotels. Moreover, you can get down to business on a grand scale, as one Chinese entrepreneur did, purchasing several dozen old buses on the cheap and creating themed houses with the design of famous cartoons. The idea may be of interest to owners of suburban areas and recreation centers.

Car tents are a whole business segment with a fairly wide offer and choice of manufacturers. Tents can be installed on the roof of a car or on the side, be soft or with hard floors and a roof. There are even special hammocks on the roofs for those who like to look at the starry sky. Considering that the number of independent tourists is constantly growing, the business of selling such tents has good prospects.

In foreign countries, bicycle tours are a separate and full-fledged area in the tourism industry. There are two directions here - you can organize tours from scratch, focusing on amateurs who have neither bicycles nor cycling experience, or on already experienced cyclists. If in the first case it is necessary to take care of all aspects, including the purchase of bicycles and equipment, then in the second the task consists only of organizational issues: planning a route, resolving issues with overnight accommodation, paperwork, and so on. There are separate types of cycling tours abroad, for example, cycling tours for girls.

Flying in a hot air balloon is an unusual and expensive experience, for which the owner of the balloon can receive up to 30 thousand rubles for one flight. You can make money by organizing group and individual flights, selling gift certificates, and also by selling the advertising surface of the balloon to advertisers.

Snowtubing is a form of entertainment that has replaced the usual sledding. Tubes are called inflatable round “cheesecakes”, and snow tubing tracks can be opened both at winter resorts and as seasonal entertainment in ordinary cities. There are two business options here: you can rent out tubes, or you can organize a professional track with a lift and a track.

Water transport rental is a broad line of business with a wide variety of watercraft. You can organize the rental of jet skis, catamarans, rowing boats, cheesecakes, bananas, wakeboards, speedboats, parachutes, flyboards and much more. Investments are directly related to the chosen type of watercraft. If cheesecakes and catamarans will cost from 8-20 thousand rubles, respectively, then, for example, flyboards and jet skis will cost from 200-350 thousand rubles.

The business of organizing water excursions is most relevant for tourist regions where people come for summer holidays. As in any type of business, you can work on quantity, simply conducting short river trips or taking people to remote secluded beaches, or on quality - that is, with excursion support and restaurant service.

The Chocolate Museum is more than just a museum. Here, visitors can not only gain knowledge about their favorite delicacy, but also attend master classes on making chocolate, as well as undergo tastings and purchase finished products. The advantage of this format: a wide target audience, several sources of profit, a large number of visitors with children, which increases the average bill from visiting the establishment.

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The tourism boom is churning out startups serving the interests of tourists. In 2018, the trend is P2P business models, integration of blockchain technologies, as well as an increase in the number of luxury and economy services.

World tourism revenues are growing faster than global GDP, and the number of international tourist arrivals on the planet in 2017 increased by 7%. Such rapid growth, which continues in 2018, is accompanied by a constant increase in the service industry and improvement in the quality of services, on all fronts and in different price categories. On the one hand, the trends include widespread low-cost travel, p2p services for tourists, which exclude any intermediaries from the chain, and even an increase in transport capacity, and on the other hand, an expansion in the number of luxury services that allow creating a unique and personalized travel experience.

The Vayable platform is built on today's popular P2P business model, connecting users looking for a unique travel experience with local residents who are willing to offer such services. These can include personalized city night tours, design and photography classes, private dinners, local wine tastings and all sorts of cultural exchange events. The organizers are citizens from such cities as Los Angeles and Istanbul, Vienna and Paris, Amsterdam and London and many others. A model like Vayable is trending right now. Similar services with unique tours from local residents in more than 30 cities around the world, for example, are provided by the CityUnscripted service.

Zappos and Mamava have teamed up to create mobile breastfeeding booths at airports. Inside these booths there are two benches and a folding table, feeding dispensers, air conditioning, USB outlets for charging gadgets, and trash cans. So that any mother can relax properly, relaxing soundtracks with recordings of ocean waves and children's laughter are played inside.

In room 2425 at the Hilton Panama, you can completely forget about the sandy beaches, sea and palm trees that are visible outside the window. The American company Alienware has equipped it with attractive gaming equipment, including a 65-inch 4K OLED TV, an Alienware Intel Core i7-8700 computer, a laptop connected to a 34-inch monitor, several Xbox One Elites and an Oculus Rift virtual reality headset. The gaming room features interactive lighting, two beds with signature Alienware pillows, and costs $349 per night.

Most airlines charge a fee for baggage transportation, which is why compact transformable bags that can be taken with you as hand luggage have become very popular today. Responding to this need, Solgaard came up with the Lifepack suitcase, the interior of which transforms into a cabinet with shelves. Thanks to the principle of a portable wardrobe, a person can easily find the right thing without having to rummage through everything to find the right thing.

In China, construction of the Songjiang InterContinental Hotel is being completed, which journalists have dubbed the Deep Pit Hotel or literally “Deep Pit Hotel”. The building is being erected in an abandoned quarry 80 meters deep and is an artificial continuation of its wall, rising two floors above the ground. The hotel will have 370 rooms, conference rooms and recreation areas. According to the project, the bottom of the quarry is planned to be turned into a luxurious artificial reservoir with swimming pools. In the center of the Deep Pit Hotel there will be a waterfall, which is planned to be the main feature of the hotel.

Blockchain technology promises to bring great prospects to the tourism sector, thanks to which it will be possible to reduce prices for tourism services by 10-30%, and the entire range of services will be easy to find on one website. The Indian team of Bookingjini is trying to promote one of the services in this area, promising to free hotels from exorbitant commissions to booking services. Due to the automated booking system and direct orders without the mediation of agents, users, in turn, can be provided with cheaper housing rental services.

Ubiatar is a service that provides an opportunity to earn money while traveling by carrying out orders for other users. A person (Avatar), located in any place on the globe, broadcasts to a viewer (Usar), who pays for it and controls the “avatar”. At the same time, the customer sees and hears everything that happens to his hero on the other side of the screen using the Internet. For broadcasting, the presenter receives a reward in the form of tokens. By launching the application, you can conduct excursions around your city or country, sharing your experience with those who cannot afford to travel due to physical or financial limitations.

Dutch startup Slow Cabins invites its customers to stop worrying about choosing a place for their trip and book a cabin... who knows where. The trick of the service is that location data becomes known only after payment for the order. The cottages are located in tranquil countryside settings, suitable for an idyllic holiday alone, as a couple or with family. The creators of the service periodically change the location of their houses to please regular customers with new travel experiences.

Italian seat manufacturer Aviointeriors has developed standing seats for passenger aircraft. Eight years in the making, the Skyrider 2.0 features upright posts with saddle-style seats. The seats are made in such a way that the passenger is in an upright position throughout the flight, leaning lightly on the back and sides. The innovative solution will increase passenger capacity by 20%: instead of the usual 28 centimeters, there will be only 23 centimeters between such seats, making the seating arrangement more compact. Low-cost carriers, for example, the Irish low-cost airline Ryanair, the Colombian airline Viva Colombia and the Russian Pobeda, have already paid attention to the development.

Campr is an online service created for nature and travel lovers. It operates like the famous Airbnb, but what is offered for rent is not just simple housing, but all kinds of camp areas, places for tent camps, tree houses, wigwams and other places close to nature. On the service you can find both luxury hotel options with impressive eco-design and floor-to-ceiling windows, as well as budget ones, for example, parking in the backyard of private houses. In addition to renting a place, Campr also allows you to book an adventure by connecting with local guides, organizers of kayaking tours, horseback riding trips and even survival tours.

Hong Kong-based Life Travel offers luxury air travel for pet owners. Dog owners can book a private flight to Japan with their pets, who are allowed to be with humans. Small dogs are allowed to be held in your arms, and large dogs are allowed to sit on the floor. During the flight, dogs are treated to grilled salmon and tender chicken. Customers can collect pet miles to receive discounts from the company. In the near future, Life Travel plans to expand its business by organizing flights for dog owners in the United States.

Amsterdam Airport Schiphol has launched a new Red Banner Express machine that prints welcome banners for arriving passengers. You can find the device in the Schiphol Plaza shopping area, in each of the arrival halls. The machine works step by step and its use is intuitive. Users can choose the style and color, add captions or personal photos, and the most suitable print format. The entire poster creation process will take a few minutes. Red Banner Express accepts credit and debit cards and operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week, making it accessible to everyone.

The luxury hotel chain Shangri-La Hotel from Singapore has decided to equip some family rooms with unique fantasy-style children's areas. Now little guests can spend the night in unique fortress beds, wooden houses with a second floor, in spaceships, submarines and nomad tents. The entire sleeping area is created in a spirit-appropriate design, including paintings on the walls, carpets, etc. The cost of a night in one of five fantasy rooms will cost from $700. The hotel also took care of children's areas outside the rooms, creating cooking classes, a music studio, a party room, a toddler area and an outdoor play area in the shape of a pirate ship.

Running excursions to key points

District Race is an excursion, extreme and exciting race at the same time. Using the application, the user can go on a fun run around Hong Kong, collecting points for passing virtual checkpoints. A participant in the game has only two hours, during which he must collect 80 checkpoints, and this can, of course, only be done by running. According to the creators of the app, the District Race does not require people to be in good physical shape, but will allow them to improve their physical fitness.

The tourism industry is becoming more and more popular every year. New and different travel destinations and routes are emerging, and new entrepreneurs in this niche are trying to stand out among competitors and offer various interesting vacation ideas.

It is worth noting that not only travel abroad is actively developing, but also travel within the country. People are increasingly becoming interested in the history of their people; they visit various historical and cultural places where they can have a cool and useful time. One of the features of the tourism business is high competition in this segment. In addition to large companies that organize trips, there are many intermediaries who, using a percentage of the cost of the trip, sell offers from major market players. The tourism niche within the country is also slowly acquiring experienced players who offer many offers and are also becoming the most competitive in price, so it is very difficult for local small businesses to promote, but it is still quite possible, the main thing is to work no matter what.

The average family often takes about two vacation trips per year, one within the country and the other to warmer countries. This forms a serious market for services, since the client is ready to pay, but still he will choose based on living conditions, travel, food and other aspects that you can offer him. In this regard, business in the tourism sector is primarily suitable for people who know how and can negotiate discounts on housing or free meals for clients. You must look for partners for ongoing cooperation and constantly maintain your brand in terms of customer service.

Before you start making money from tourism, it is important to understand the formats with which you should start from scratch and where to grow in the future. So, to get started, try selling your services via the Internet, this could be your own website or message boards. Rent a small office and enter into an agreement with various tour operators. In the future, as a base of regular customers is formed, it will be possible to create your own tours and invite small intermediaries to resell your offers. As you can see, in order to open a tourism business, you can have a minimum start-up capital, the main thing is the ability to apply and negotiate. The entire reputation of your company will be based on customer reviews, they publish them on social networks and websites specialized for this. It is important that the majority of reviews are positive, otherwise it will turn off many of your target customers. Monitor your online reputation and try to ensure that you are recommended as one of the best companies associated with the tourist destination.

Now let's look at what types of travel business ideas you can safely consider.

1. Travel abroad. Usually this is a format of tours to the sea, to warm countries such as Türkiye, Egypt, Thailand. Or excursion tours around Europe, to Paris, Barcelona, ​​Amsterdam and other interesting cities that most vacationers want to visit.
2. Excursions and recreation within the country. This can also include a holiday at sea or the premises of many historical places.
3. Leisure. First of all, these are ski resorts, and in the summer there are trips on bicycles and ATVs.
4. Ecotourism. This direction is gaining popularity. Its essence is to organize a recreation center in the forest near a lake or river and offer people trips to pick mushrooms, fishing, barbecues, a bathhouse and other options for outdoor recreation. Usually, for this purpose, they buy a house in a village with a plot of land and gradually convert it into a full-fledged recreation center.

These are the four most popular formats on the market, which can be implemented in almost any city. In this section of the site, we have selected for you working business ideas in the tourism niche and tried to consider not only the theoretical part, but also give examples of calculations of investments and profitability, so that in the future it will be easier for you to create your own business plan for the company.

Business ideas in tourism and recreation - new hotel concepts, unique travel programs and travel services.

Airports often become the venue for innovative business ideas. These can be socially significant projects, as, for example, in Japan, or ideas aimed at increasing passenger comfort, such as, or. The priority direction for the development of the international airport in Dubai is to improve security and adapt to growing passenger traffic. Therefore, display tunnels for scanning passengers will soon appear here.

Hiking enthusiasts know very well what troubles an unexpectedly dead smartphone or GPS navigator can cause. Of course, there are portable chargers. But all of them, for one reason or another, are far from perfect. A few years ago, we wrote on the site about American ones, which, as a bonus, offer users electricity for lighting and charging gadgets. Progress does not stand still, and now our Russian entrepreneurs have launched an innovative tourist stove that can charge electronic gadgets from a fire.

As soon as the Internet and other modern technologies firmly established themselves in our lives, we didn’t even have time to come to our senses when we became their slaves. For example, Internet addiction has not yet been officially recognized as a mental illness, but today it is causing serious concern throughout the world. While specialized centers are opening in different parts of our planet to help people combat Internet addiction, the most conscious citizens are trying to cope with the problem on their own. Some people introduce restrictive rules on the use of gadgets at home, others save themselves through meditation and creativity. According to Kazan entrepreneur Dmitry Nikitin, an excellent solution in such a situation could be offline camp for adults to combat internet addiction.

Life in a metropolis, of course, has its drawbacks (traffic jams, bustle, noise, exhaust fumes), but all this outweighs one big advantage - the quantity and variety of entertainment. Today Moscow is home to theatres, cinemas, museums, exhibitions, festivals, lectures, excursions, marathons, master classes and, of course, the recently super-popular city quests. Spoiled Moscow viewers want to see new forms, and enterprising Moscow businessmen know how to make money from this desire. For example, for those who do not like to plan and depend on other people for recreation and entertainment, the service of an electronic guide has recently appeared.

Organizing your own business in the field of tourism remains relevant and has been a popular area for many years. This business niche does not stand still and is constantly in a state of development and growth. As in other business sectors, there is also healthy competition here, so advertising your own unique services is simply necessary here.

Every year the flow of vacationers is growing rapidly, this is another reasonable argument in favor of investing accumulated funds in tourism. The number of clients is a factor that can influence profitability indicators in the tourism industry and profit growth. Current seasonal offers and benefits for regular customers contribute to increasing the profit flow. New creative ideas for organizing a tourism business appear every day. Any company that strives to achieve financial success in the tourism industry must not only attract customers with beneficial benefits for customers, seasonal benefits, but also create a unique market offer that will be in good demand.

Sales of tourist equipment

Active tourism is gaining momentum today. Today there are many people who intend to spend their legal holidays not only in comfortable hotels and equipped sandy beaches, but also in an open-air tent. In order for the sale of tourism equipment to be effective, the entrepreneur needs to find out the needs of clients in advance.

The first condition for the successful operation of a travel store is its good location, well-selected, affordable assortment. You can also create a center for renting such shells, start selling them via the Internet, and create a second-hand store for selling used tourist equipment. All these activities help reduce costs and increase demand for these goods.

Today, a new direction of the tourism business called caravanning is increasingly developing. This term means a comfortable type of travel; to make it, you do not need expensive trips to resorts or plane tickets. The only thing you need to purchase or rent is a van specially equipped with all amenities, the so-called house on wheels. This method of traveling has a lot of advantageous advantages - there is no need to carry a heavy burden on your back in the form of a backpack, live in a simple tent, pay for accommodation in motels, while travelers get complete freedom of action, because they are not tied to a specific place.

You can sell new vans, rent them out, or use them for special tours organized by the company for clients.

Traveling by bicycle is not only a pleasant way to spend time, but also physical activity that keeps all major muscle groups in good shape significantly improves the overall condition of your figure. Riding a bike can be an exciting journey, the benefits of which can be compared to a long visit to the gym. Another advantage of organizing this type of business is that the bicycle does not damage the environment and significantly saves money and time.

To organize such cycling tours, you need to recruit experienced staff and implement interesting ideas for creating unique routes of every possible degree of difficulty.

Extreme rope jumping

This type of extreme entertainment arose relatively recently, but many citizens of our country are not yet familiar with it. An increased interest in this type of extreme sports is manifested among young people who want to experience an incredible rush of adrenaline; among the representatives of the middle generation there are also many people who are ready to experience new unforgettable sensations.

This type of entertainment involves jumping from a fairly high point on an elastic long rope that is firmly tied to the legs. This type of sports entertainment is associated with a certain risk, so you need to select experienced personnel for your staff, purchase quality equipment, and also learn how to select the right objects for performing extreme jumps.

The creation of animated holidays is becoming one of the popular types of services today, since not every person has enough imagination to organize interesting leisure activities. Such a program can have not only an entertainment focus, but it can be organized on a sports theme. You can create a relaxing holiday for clients or other form of entertainment, but the purpose of creating a business is to enhance the pleasure of having an interesting leisure time.

Organization of sports and amateur tourism

An amateur type of tourism is a special tourist trip along a route chosen independently. Experienced instructors recommend proven routes to clients, from which they choose the appropriate option.

Sports tourism is considered an advanced type of independent tourism. Such hikes are highly complex, so they are organized at the state level. Both of these types of tourism are considered good forms of pleasure, so they bring good profits.

Conducting unique trips to places of power

Nowadays, a passion for various unusual phenomena is considered quite a fashionable trend. Some people firmly believe in various anomalous zones and in luck. Many travelers are confident that good luck awaits them in places of power; truths that were previously inaccessible to their understanding will be revealed.

Organizing seasonal tours to such special places will also be quite profitable, because the flow of people wishing to visit them is growing every year. Such places, where a person feels great, exist in reality. The mountain beauties of Altai, the Urals, and the clean forests of Siberia have a special beneficial effect on the human body.

Every aspiring businessman can organize special tours to special places and gain spiritual experience.

Another attractive niche in the tourism business is the organization of children's hotels. Many parents go on summer holidays with their children, and some just want to take a break from it all and relax. There are proven ways to solve this problem - give your dear child to his grandparents or send him to a health camp. A small hotel created specifically for young guests is considered a creative idea.

For this purpose, you can choose a beautiful room in an attractive area, comfortable rooms designed for 1 to 4 children, and various types of entertainment programs for little fidgets. A hotel for young guests should have competent educators and a small cozy dining room.

Underground green park

Due to the rapid pace of urban development and densely built-up areas, less and less free areas remain for green parks. If it is not possible to allocate space for a green park, then in some European cities it is necessary to create such areas on the spacious roofs of apartment buildings or create parks underground.

Such a unique underground park can be of real value to tourists; people from all over the world will come to see it. In order for such a park to function and develop normally, it is necessary to create special lighting and other conditions for the comfortable development of plants. For this purpose, it will be necessary to use modern high-tech solutions; the creation of such parks can be a source of excellent profit.

For many, washing while hiking is a problematic task that almost every traveler has encountered. As a rule, they take a minimum of things with them on a hike; in conditions of limited water, they have to postpone washing until a convenient opportunity arises.

Relatively recently, one Australian inventor, Ashley Newland, came up with a small portable washing machine that weighs only 150 g and requires only 3 liters of purified water to start it. This miracle of technology costs only $40. This convenient thing will soon experience the peak of its popularity; you can start selling these compact models or organize a center where tourists can wash their things.

This is another profitable niche in the tourism industry that, with the right approach, can become a permanent source of income. This type of tourism implies a complete rejection of traditional holidays in cozy hotels, where a full range of services is included. His task is to leave the traditional comfort zone and create an atmosphere of complete unity with nature. It is this type of vacation that those businessmen who are tired of large cities and fashionable five-star hotels need.

To open a business in the field of ecotourism, you need to choose a place where there is pristine natural beauty. A small village is suitable for this purpose, where every city resident can feed chickens and ducks, take a steam bath in a real Russian bathhouse, and enjoy a true Russian feast. Holidays in a real Russian outback are a great way to restore physical and mental strength.

Acquisition of an existing travel company

Based on official statistics, last year was characterized for tourism by a jump in the growth of sales of operating companies. But the demand indicator of this segment always remains constant. Against the backdrop of changes in the exchange rate, many founders of travel agencies managed to foresee their likely collapse. The financial problems that arose among large tour operators were the reason for the sharp increase in their sales.

Despite this, domestic Russian tourism is still a promising niche for many investors. Many business leaders have failed to meet the demands of modern customers because they have not fully embraced innovation. Among them are the following important modern technologies:

• complete lack of proper communication with the client via the Internet;
• available Internet sources are not updated as often as modern times dictate;
• there is no detailed online source of information about the operating travel agency;
• all services posted on the page do not function correctly, the necessary payment systems do not work.

To avoid such problems with the likely decline of the company in the future, a novice entrepreneur can organize an online agency.

The main advantages of an electronic agency

The online segment, as a rule, offers the client goods at a reduced cost due to cooperation directly with suppliers.

Such online agencies have the following beneficial advantages:

• significantly save valuable client time;
• the client sees in front of him a ready-made proposal with all the ensuing details, he does not need to clarify the details. The only thing that may be required is assistance in filling out the electronic form and correcting the chosen route for the trip;
• application of modern technologies and developments.

Some travel agencies are developing unique systems for searching the necessary information on the website. Those entrepreneurs who have already opened travel agencies note that Russians use the Internet more often when ordering any foreign tour than representatives of Europe. But the penetration rate of our Russian tourists into the network is constantly growing. Statistics show that many Russians, before choosing a particular tour, look through the information available on the Internet. It is for this objective reason that many travel agencies choose to organize domestic tourism as their main activity, since our compatriots are primarily interested in the beauties of their country and prefer to relax more in the country than to leave it.

When creating such an online business, a novice entrepreneur may encounter the following problems:

• To make sure that their funds transferred to a travel agency are safe and entrusted to a particular company operating via the Internet, many clients prefer to personally visit the company's operating office. There they will see the team that will help settle all the formalities when issuing a voucher;
• all booking and payment systems uploaded to the site must work like clockwork and not cause any failures, otherwise financial theft may occur. The unstable position of foreign currency affects the final cost of the ticket;
• the procedure for returning and exchanging purchased tickets is quite difficult and long;
• in such work there is always a risk of leakage of important information, because in order to make a payment the client will have to enter a unique personal plastic card number and important personal data.

Many experts claim that the organization of online agencies should be included in the official tax base. At the same time, they need to really prove that this new type of activity will develop in the future; over the years, only progressive growth of this industry will be observed.

Important advantages of starting a tourism business

Many entrepreneurs choose tourism as their main activity; starting a business in this area has the following advantages:

• the investment pays off quickly;
• a small amount will be required for opening;
• rapid increase in business profitability;
• the presence of a stable legislative framework aimed at regulating the activities of travel companies and existing operators.

Rather than organizing a travel company from scratch, it is much easier to acquire an existing company that has important intangible assets, including a good, untarnished name, accumulated experience of successful advertising campaigns, and the presence of an established client base.

A short summary

Summarizing all of the above, creating your own travel agency or acquiring an existing business is a promising action. When initially opening, an entrepreneur expects small expenses: monthly rent of office space, hiring 2 competent employees, purchasing the necessary furniture and high-quality office equipment. After everything is settled, you can begin your active work, because commissions from any tour operator amount to up to 10% of the total cost of the tour. Tourism loves accuracy and timely information; an error in flight departure time can cost operators several thousand rubles.