Adventure Central

100 and counting

We've started off 2008 with a bang! Adding our 100th adventure travel tour operator partner and helping all our partners grow significantly year-over-year.

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What a summer it's been - 24 new Tour Operators join the Adventure Central family

We hope all our clients, customers and friends have been enjoying this amazing summer - if you haven't yet, be sure to get out and enjoy some rapids, take a hike or two, go camping and enjoy the warm sunshine before the summer breezes blow away.

We've had a great summer ourselves - and are proud to share it with 24 new tour operators who've recently joined the Adventure Central family. A big welcome to all of them! Check them out below and read the full press release for more details.

A Day Away Kayak Tours, Adventure Out, Alpine World Ascents, Big Amazon Fish, Beautiful People Vacations, Blue Sky Outfitters, Captain Jack's, Santa Barbara Tours, Desert Voyagers Guided Raft Tours, East Coast Outfitters, Epley's Whitewater Adventures, H2O Guides, Lakota River Guides, New and Gauley River Adventures, Point Reyes Outdoors, PowderQuest, Raft Masters, Reed's Canoe Trips, San Juan Mountain Guides, Snake River Kayak & Canoe, Tag-A-Long Expeditions, Teton Mountain Bike Tours, River & Trail Outfitters, Wildwater River Tours

Adventure Central Announces New Customers

The leading provider of online booking and travel inventory management solutions for adventure travel operators continues to grow.

Adventure Central, the leading provider of online booking and travel inventory management solutions for adventure and experiential travel operators, today announced it added 14 new customers in February and March 2007. Sands Wild Water, Northern Lights Expeditions, Up the Creek Xpeditions, PowderQuest, Tag-a-Long Expeditions, Teton Mountain Bike Tours, Adventure Associates, Kodi Rafting, Dinosaur Expeditions, Venture Outdoors, A Day Away Kayak Tours, American Adventure Expeditions, Wildwater River Tours, and Vagabond Gourmet are all new Adventure Central customers.

The new customers reinforce a series of recent successes at Adventure Central. In addition to naming several industry thought leaders to its board, Adventure Central recently raised $3.5 million in venture capital funding. Adventure Central now has more than 50 customers, which represents year-over-year growth of more than 100 percent. Customer transactions via Adventure Central’s platform are on a pace in 2007 to more than triple 2006 transactions.

“We’re pleased with how 2007 is unfolding for us,” says Dick Schulte, CEO of Adventure Central. “The funds we raised at the end of 2006 have allowed us to add more great people to our team and to better support our customers. In addition, we are very excited to see adoption from new experiential market segments, like culinary tours and cross-cultural tours, bringing an expanded richness to the trip inventory we support.”

Key among the benefits Adventure Central’s solution delivers to its tour operator customers is new customer growth. Operators experience appreciable growth due to the ability of offering online bookings capabilities for the first time. Bookings increase an average of 8 to 10 percent, a figure that reinforces the growing trend of adventure travelers’ desire for the convenience of booking adventure and experiential travel online.

"We have seen significant web bookings since going live with Adventure Central, and are excited that people can now make a reservation whenever they choose, day or night,” says Charlie Sands, owner of Sands Wild Water, which is based in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. “And the ease of booking and reservations management enabled by the system has really reduced the workload of our staff.”

About Adventure Central
Based in Denver, CO, Adventure Central is the leading provider of critical business services to adventure and experiential tour operators. The company offers a robust online booking and travel inventory management solution to tour operators as well as connectivity to online distribution partners, delivering new, powerful and cost-effective tools that enable operators to grow revenues, attract and retain customers, and reduce operational costs. For more information on Adventure Central, call 303.292.5522 or visit www.adventurecentral.com.

Adventure Central Announces New Customers

Adventure Central, the emerging leader in providing online booking and travel inventory management solutions for adventure travel operators, today announced that five new customers had signed contracts. Ridgway Independent Guide Service, Sun Valley Heli Ski Guides, Bay Area Outdoor Adventure Club, Mountain & River Adventures, and Renaissance Adventure Guides are all new Adventure Central customers.

“With Adventure Central, reservations and client communications have never been easier,” says Tim Patterson, co-owner of Ridgway Independent Guide Services. “Adventure Central has been the light at the end of our paperwork tunnel. We make fewer phone calls, and spend less time booking trips. Moreover, 30 percent of our bookings are now done without us ever even hitting one key on the keyboard. Personally, I’m always excited to check my computer in the morning and see what transactions have occurred during non-business hours.”

Says Mike Young, President of Renaissance Adventure Guides: “Since going live with Adventure Central, we are able to easily manage our entire class and trip schedule from any location where Internet access is available. And we’re seeing new international bookings. We love it, and our customers love it!”

Adventure Central is experiencing substantial growth in 2006. So far this year, Adventure Central has tripled the number of adventure travel operator customers served, and more than doubled operator booking transaction volume over 2005.

“Our team is delighted to be working with these new, diverse customers,” says Dick Schulte, CEO of Adventure Central. “They are passionate, forward-thinking outfitters who are eager to grow their businesses through our new, powerful online booking and trip management capabilities. We’re helping these, and all of our customers, grow and manage their businesses better.”

Renaissance Adventure Guides Joins Adventure Central

Denver based Renaissance Adventure Guides has joined the growing list of adventure tour operators to choose Adventure Central’s real-time booking engine to streamline their back office booking process and provide them with an eCommerce enabled websolution. Renaissance has everything from instructional classes to amazing guided adventures. Renaissance Adventure Guides prides themselves on providing an educational and fun environment for their adventures with a focus on kayak instruction, guided adventures, and guided rafting. You can check out their adventures at http://www.raguides.com.

“Since going live on Adventure Office, we are able to easily manage our entire class and trip schedule from any location where internet access is available.  Our entire staff can now see the status of every reservation and assist any customer easily from their desk.  We love it, and our customers love it!”

Mike Young
President
Renaissance Adventure Guides

Adventure Central Welcomes RIGS

Ridgway Independent Guide Service (RIGS) and Fly Shop is the newest tour operator to choose Adventure Central’s real-time booking solution. Conveniently located in the incredible Uncompahgre River Valley in Ridgway, Colorado - RIGS offers quality Colorado fly fishing trips, walk and wade fishing, whitewater rafting, family rafting, instructional clinics, group trips, custom river adventures & now waterfowl. For more information about their services please visit: http://www.fishrigs.com.

“Reservations and client communications have never been easier. Adventure Central has been the light at the end of our paperwork tunnel!”

Tim Patterson – Co-Owner

Confluence Kayaks Joins Growing List of Customers

Denver-based Confluence Kayaks, which offers year-round kayaking adventures and has been around since 1995, is Adventure Central’s newest customer. Confluence Kayaks was looking for the ability to market and book trips online, and saw Adventure Central as the solution to this pressing problem. For more information on Confluence Kayaks, please visit http://www.confluencekayaks.com.