Insights on Travel from Costa Rica Expeditions’ Founder Michael Kaye and his Expert Friends.

Archive for September, 2010

Pricing in a Climate of Discounting

Yesterday I received  the email and attached outline below from my friend Kurt Kutay from Wildlands Adventures.  I thought you might be interesting in an insiders view of pricing issues in todays environment and got Kurts permission to share it with you.
I have definite views on the subject, but rather than start out by influencing [...]

Trip Advisor Blackmail & Bribery

Whenever I ask guests how they decided to book with us, whatever else they say they invariably mention Trip Advisor.  I would not be surprised if reviews on Trip Advisor are the single most powerful influencer of travel decisions today.
On the whole this a very good thing. The site gives travelers unprecedented access to usually [...]

The Race to Amazing.

The Amazing Race is the only television show that I dislike.  The reason that I do not dislike any other shows is that I have not watched any other shows enough to dislike them.  But I only had to watch the first half of one episode to amazing race to dislike it intensely.
For those of [...]

Guests Help Local Kids Learn English Videos July 13-Aug 23 2010.

This first video gives an overview of the Words Adventure just a week after the program started.  It was shot and produced by my friend John Canning from Media Sherpa.