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Who Owns the Dive Travel Client?

Supplier-Direct Initiatives Nothing New in dive travel.

(Dive Travel Business News - May 22, 2013) -- The dive travel industry has long contended with an issue that places suppliers in direct competition with professional sellers of dive travel. It is the issue of Dive Travel Suppliers marketing directlly to the customers brought to them by Sellers of Dive Travel.

This is nothing new. All members of the dive travel distribution chain are out there marketing to their peeps. Tourism boards, certification agencies, even gear manufacturers and online media and photo equipment companies are on the dive travel bandwagon. read more »

Maduro Dive Fanta-Seas Extends Deals to Seven Different Destinations

(Dive Travel Business News - January 21, 2013) -- Maduro Dive Fanta-Seas, an innovative leader in dive travel, is extending dive package deals to 7 different dive destinations. Maduro Dive Fanta-Seas is offering excellent value with these packages to the following destinations and well-known suppliers:

GALAPAGOS ISLANDS – Humboldt Explorer Liveaboard ~ Save $1,200 per person to every diver’s “must do” destination

$2,950 with Free Nitrox for any of these dates in 2013:
April 8 – April 15, 2013
April 29 – May 6, 2013
May 27 – June 3, 2013

Packages include 8 days / 7 nights aboard the vessel, 3 meals daily, plus between meals snacks, alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages, up to 3 dives per day, free Nitrox for Nitrox certified divers, transfers and government taxes. Fuel surcharges, National Park and chamber, tourist fees, any hotel stay, non-Galapagos transfers, crew gratuities, last evening meal are additional. read more »

Divi Flamingo Beach Resort Bonaire Celebrates Industry Month in September

(Dive Travel Business News - August 16, 2012) -- Divi Flamingo Beach Resort in Bonaire is celebrating Industry Month this September. Designed for dive industry shop owners along with their employees and instructors, this long-established Bonaire dive resort is offering its dive packages at 50% off to use as a FAM trip or as a personal vacation. The FAM Special is available for travel any week in September.

The Divi Flamingo Beach Resort's standard 2 tank boat package includes roundtrip airport/hotel transfers, 7 nights accommodations, breakfast daily, 2 tank morning boat dives with unlimited use of tanks for shore diving plus all hotel tax & service charges.The FAM price for this standard package price is US $494.50pp (regularly $989pp). A non-diver sharing with the diver is $335.50pp. Shore diving packages starts at $408pp and includes all the above except for the daily boat dives. read more »

Kids Sea Camp in Bonaire this Summer

(Dive Travel Business News - May 23, 2012) -- BONAIRE -- A complete family adventure designed to give every family member the ultimate an memorable experience of a lifetime, Kids Sea Camp events are hosted at family friendly PADI dive dedicated resorts. This summer Buddy Dive Resort in Bonaire has dedicated the entire resort to Kids Sea Camp July 21-28th.

Special features of the Bonaire Kids Sea Camp include: Unlimited shore diving, 4 dives per day are scheduled with 2 am and 2 pm dives as well as guided night dives each evening. Programs for kids from age 4-17 are provided each day. Special guests are Annie Crawley from Dive into Your Imagination, providing photo and video seminars, as well as slideshows and presentations on the Pacific Garbage patch and sharks. Randi and Tomar with Titan CCR will be presenting rebreathe demonstrations and classes during the week. SeaLife will host our main slide show as well as Demos for adults and kids of their newest line of digital cameras. read more »

Maduro offers Exclusive Group Opportunities for 2012

(Dive Travel Business News - April 25, 2012) -- Maduro Dive Fanta-Seas is offering Exclusive Group Opportunities (EGO) with leading dive companies until June 29 for travel from August to December 2012. Dive Retailers and Group Leaders looking to add a dive trip or begin selling group dive travel in 2012 , as little as 5 people are needed to book a profitable group trip. The EGO offers are commissionable up to 12% and include Free Spots to use or sell.

Here is a summary of the EGO 2012 Participants and offers: read more »

Island Dreams Marks 25th Anniversary

(Dive Travel Business News - April 23, 2012) – Houston-based Island Dreams Travel marks its 25^th year in business with sales, celebrations, an underwater photo contest and a great travel prize drawing. Founded in 1987, Island Dreams isa a wholesale and retail travel business specializing in scuba diving trips to exotic locations spanning the globe. The company’s award-winning web site, divetrip.com, is the longest-running scuba travel-specific site on the Internet.

First launched in 1995, this web resource has grown to encompass a wealth of fascinating content and hundreds of unique underwater photographs. As a result, Divetrip.com provides an invaluable resource for web surfers interested in researching and comparing diving opportunities. read more »

Family Dive Adventures Announces 2012 Kids Sea Camp Schedule.

(Dive Travel Business - January 28, 2012) -- Kids Sea Camp has announced its Family Dive Adventure destinations for 2012: The list includes eight family-friendly dive holidays in Yap, Palau, Costa Rica, Grand Cayman, Galapagos, Bonaire, Utila and St. Vincent.

Kids Sea Camp gets kids excited about the ocean when they are young. Established by Dive Travel Pro Margo Peyton in 2001, the objective of Kids Sea Camp is to promote an awareness of marine related issues, with a strong focus on conservation. During Kids Sea Camp, students enjoy multiple activities and the enthusiasm of a staff dedicated to teaching new and fun things about the oceans with both education in a classroom environment as well as hands-on programs that teach age appropriate curriculum.

The Kids Sea Camp Line-Up for 2012 is: read more »

Maduro Dive Fanta-Seas Launches Free Online Tool for Dive Travel Sellers

(Dive Travel Business News - January 26, 2012) -- Maduro Dive Fanta-Seas has launched a new, free online application called PAW, which is available for industry pros to review online. PAW stands for Profit Application Widget and was designed to provide dive travel distributors a proven method to enhance profits on individual dive travel sales, merchandise while maintaining complete control of their clients and retaining customers on their own website at all times.

According to Debran Nielsen, Dive Travel Specialist with Maduro Dive Fanta-Seas, the initial comments from distributors that added PAW to their website have been overwhelmingly positive. Beta-testers of PAW said they are realizing more profits from travel, instruction and equipment sales. Fresh content and new specials are motivating clients to return more frequently to the distributor's website. read more »

Diving Legend Neal Watson Re-elected President of the Bahamas Diving Association.

THE BAHAMAS—JANUARY 24, 2012— Dive legend and businessman Neal Watson has been re-elected for another two-year term as President of the Bahamas Diving Association.

Stuart Cove, owner of Stuart Cove’s Dive Bahamas in Nassau and Stuart Cove’s Tiger Beach Safaris on Grand Bahama Island, was re-elected vice president.

Watson and celebrated marine artist, scientist and conservationist Dr. Guy Harvey joined forces last year to open Neal Watson’s Dive Bimini at the Bimini Big Game Club in Alice Town. read more »

Turquoise Travel Adventures Inc. Opens its Doors

(Dive Travel Business News - June 1, 2011) -- Dive Travel veteran Terry Peralta is heading up the team of the new Turquoise Travel Adventures Inc.. Terry has over 16 years service in the travel industry, with 12 of those as top Group Dive Travel Specialist with PADI Travel Network. She has extensive experience working with dive shops on group and individual client needs, helping dive retailers build a travel profit center within their business.

Based in Southern California, the new dive travel company has a combined 52 years of diving experieince, offering dive travel services to a variety of dive destinations around the globe. Turquoise Travel team members have traveled extensively in order to offer first-hand dive travel guidance to their customers.

Call (949) 335-9055 or toll-free (877) 553-5395, email terry@ttadiver.com or visit Turquoise Travel Adventures.

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