Home Based Travel Agent Podcast: December 2022

Thursday, December 15, 2022

451 - Beautiful North Lake Tahoe With Bart Peterson

Show 451

Show Notes

North Lake Tahoe is a beautiful destination where you can explore the beauty of all that nature has to offer. There are beautiful beaches, crystal-clear freshwater lakes, and mountain vistas blended with amazing sunsets. Along with the beauty of North Lake Tahoe, you have ample opportunity to enjoy the area through recreational activities such as hiking, mountain biking, skiing, water sports, and just relaxing.

Bart Peterson, the Business Development Manager for North Lake Tahoe, joins today's show to detail all that North Lake Tahoe has to offer you or your clients. We're excited to have you join us and learn more about North Lake Tahoe.

"North Lake Tahoe, we're really known as having the greatest concentration of ski resorts. We not only have the big resorts that are on the popular passes, the Epic Pass that Vale has, the Ikon Pass that Alta has. We have some smaller ski areas as well that's fun to mix it up with the locals and get that unique, quirky atmosphere with the smaller ski areas."

"We also have an extensive network of mountain biking and hiking trails in our mountains. The beaches really get busy in the summertime, so I suggest to use that opportunity to find a vista; pack a lunch, go for a hike, explore that network of trails and take a view of Tahoe from up above."

"But beyond recreation in the summertime, we're also talking about touring historic estates. We have Thunderbird Lodge on the Northeast shore of the Lake. The east shore of the Lake is largely undisturbed, and the reason for that is this gentleman, George Whittel, Jr., owned the whole eastern shore of the Lake in the early 1900s and thanks to him, we can now enjoy that space. You can tour his mansion on the east shore and can learn about the guy who's the reason for our shoreline being undisturbed and pristine as it is."

Links to Items We Talked About in the Show

Go Tahoe North Website

Email Bart at sales@gotahoenorth.com

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Thursday, December 01, 2022

450 – Luxury Travel With Shane Mahoney

Show Notes

Show 450

Shane Mahoney of Lugos travel joins the show to describe how his company takes the stress out of creating unique luxury travel packages for his clients. The process of creating a unique luxury travel package is time-consuming and stressful for the client. Often the potential client will avoid the stress and time of creating a luxury package and opt for a less unique experience or forgo the travel altogether.

Shane describes his business model and how he can create a luxury package and give his clients a quote in under five minutes. Shane wants his clients to start their vacation with an excellent experience in booking the vacation and to continue that experience throughout their travels.

It's all about the business process and the experience you give clients as they move through that process. Shane describes this process in detail and gives examples of how he creates unique luxury travel experiences at competitive costs for his clients.

"We take a model of high touch, high customization and transfer that into a more accessible product."

"What we do and have done in the past with some of the more interesting trips that we've done is just really provide a high level of personalized detail in multiple different ways to create a better experience for our clients."

"Our core business now is actually taking a structure that is good for luxury travel and making it not only easier for our clients to book and enjoy but also a more accessible price point so that we can affect more people."

"We can deliver a custom, private-level quote with our essential tour package for 66 tours in 19 countries, and we can quote that for any day of the year in under 5 minutes."