Culinary tourism is a hot travel trend. Let's kick it up a notch by creating programs that give people an authentic taste of the past.
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Kids love history if it’s presented in an appealing and accessible way. Young folks, including *gasp* teenagers, also enjoy historically-themed tours and events. All you have to do is create programs that are interesting, interactive and age-appropriate.
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There are lots of ways to create programs and tours around ghost ads and it’s easy to include an experiential aspect, the Holy Grail of contemporary tour and event design. Let’s take a look at a few possibilities.
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Bringing a historical character to life can be a fascinating and satisfying project. It can also be surprisingly lucrative.
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Figuring out how much to charge for a new program, tour or event makes us nervous, uncomfortable. We’re afraid we’ll make a mistake. Let's focus on the basic questions that will help you find your magic number.
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Can people’s fascination with decrepit buildings help blighted downtowns start to make a comeback?
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As we said in our last post, Avoiding Tour Day Disasters, there are many ways programs go awry. Here are five more potential problem areas and how to handle them.
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There are so many ways tours can go awry. It’s impossible to control every situation or plan for every contingency. However, it’s worthwhile to spend some time thinking about how you will handle various situations.
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Visitors to museums, historic houses and other types of heritage attractions are no longer content to be passive observers. They want to be participants in some way. The Victorian Funeral Tour is both experiential and interactive. And it's perfect for Halloween.
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Whether it’s a high tech ghost hunt, a candlelight tour of a crumbling old graveyard, or a guided trek down a dark alley where a horrific murder occurred, the paranormal is big business and not just at Halloween.
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Crime tours, a sub-genre of dark tourism, introduce visitors to documented crimes of the past. This case study describes how people in a small town worked together to create their own successful version.
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The suggestion that familiar places hold clues to the past does more than appeal to people's imaginations, it opens the door to the immersive, engaging type of experiences contemporary travelers want.
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Can people’s fascination with decrepit buildings help blighted downtowns start to make a comeback?