6 Steps to Booking Senior Travel
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The document discusses senior travel and provides tips for planning trips, including creating a bucket list, using a travel agent to customize group trips, and purchasing travel insurance. It also promotes several upcoming group tours through Boomer Tours & Travel, including train, cruise, and motor coach trips throughout Western Canada and the United States. The final section provides contact information for two travel specialists at Boomer Tours & Travel who can assist with planning senior group trips and bucket list vacations.
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6 Steps to Booking Senior Travel
- 2. Senior Travel In 6 Easy Steps • Introductions • The Great Canadian Road Trip 1950-1980 • Travel Trends in 2017 • Hitch-Hikers Guide To The Bucket List • Group Travel – Where Ill-Advised Fear To Tread • Insurance – The Elephant In The Room • Putting A Bow On Everything
- 3. Introductions • Who Are We • Why Are We Here Jay Nanji – Seniors Travel Specialist David Wedemire – Groups Specialist
- 4. The Great Canadian Road Trip The Family Trip
- 5. The Great Canadian Road Trip Realistic Family Trip
- 6. The Great Canadian Road Trip My Childhood Family Trips
- 7. Current Trends In Travel The “Bucket List” The Allure of River Cruising Multi-Generational Travel Travel By Train Ocean Cruising Motor Coach Tours
- 8. Featured Tours 2018 Rocky Mountaineer Train May 27 2018 - 7 days/6 nights Taste of the Rockies Circle - Travel through the awe-inspiring Rockies by train on this journey that brings you to the picturesque resort town of Banff, past glaciers, rushing waterfalls and majestic peaks to the quaint town of Jasper Overnight Stays: Vancouver, Kamloops, Banff, Jasper Motor Coach Tour July 1-9 2018 - 7 days/6 nights Independence Days Tour - Travel from Vancouver to the Oregon Coast by comfortable motor coach visiting Seattle (Emerald City), Portland (Rose City) and picturesque small towns along the way. Stop at the Seattle Premium Outlet on the return leg and tax-free shopping in Oregon Columbia River Cruise August 12-18 2018 – 7 days Welcome To The Magnificent Pacific Northwest - This voyage through the Pacific Northwest shows you the bounty and beauty of nature, as well as the history and heritage of the people who inhabited this diverse region. The Cascade Range separates the dense forests of the coastal regions of Washington and Oregon from the arid rolling hills and wine country the Red Mountain region. Sailing From Clarkston to Vancouver Wa. Princess Cruise to Alaska September 12, 2018 – 7 days Inside Passage with Glacier Bay Roundtrip from Vancouver – Aboard the Island Princess. You’re invited to experience an Alaska cruise offering a range of enriching cruise options to see the Great Land's glaciers, wildlife and national parks from the perspective of a spectacular ship
- 9. The Power Of Groups • Group exists here at RC • Customization – What Group Wants To Do • CHOICE • Buying Power • Travel with People You Know • Tour Operators add Extras
- 10. Why Groups
- 11. Custom Tours
- 15. Bucket List
- 16. Beginners Guide To Bucket Lists • Set realistic goals • Complete items • Bucket List Overflow • What is your #1 item
- 17. Online vs Travel Expert
- 18. Online vs Travel Expert • Many Choices • 24/7 access • Convenience • Prices • Reviews • Interact with person • Agent asks questions • Other options • Custom trips • Experienced
- 19. Why You Need Insurance • Protection for your investment • Credit Card coverage • Over 60 years old • Flight Insurance, Trip Cancellation • Medical Coverage • Lost Luggage
- 20. Senior Travel In 6 Easy Steps 1. Make yourself a cup of coffee/tea 2. Pick your Bucket List Travel destination 3. Call Boomer Tours & Travel 4. Have us do all the planning & booking 5. Pay for your vacation 6. Relax & Enjoy your trip
- 21. Contacting Us Jay Nanji 778-233-7234 jnanji@boomertours.ca David Wedemire 604-551-5693 david@boomertours.ca Website: www.boomertours.ca
Editor's Notes
- Go day folks My name is Dave Wedemire and his name is Jay Nanji. We are Boomer Tours & Travel. As the logo says We Support “Travel Without Barriers”. Before we begin, I’d like to show you a couple of videos to loosen you up. Show Video #1 This one is a German commercial by Princess Cruises. It might be a little exaggerated but doesn’t air travel sometime feel like that. Show Video #2 Now you are all hungry. An example of typical cuisine available on most cruise lines. They also have the Grand Buffet dinning if you want to just load up your plate and eat. Now let us begin
- As you can read on the screen – We will cover these areas Short Intros from Jay and I How people used to travel – or how we think we remember it The current trends in Senior Travel Why everyone should have and use a bucket list Benefits of group travel Insurance – Why you need it Conclusion and Question Period
- Short Verbal Bio from Dave Short Verbal Bio from Jay
- This is how we think we remember the great Canadian road trip. Two parents with 2 kids – one boy one girl and maybe the dog.
- This is probably closer to reality. This is a still from National Lampoon – Vacation. Off to Wally World. Everything that could go wrong – does go wrong
- When I was growing up, this was more like our family vacation. 2 parents and 7 kids jammed into at 1957 Dodge 2 door no seatbelts driving through NW USA visiting relatives I did not really know. For years I thought this is what everyone did.
- This is the top 6 most experienced travel methods in 2016-2017. The bucket list we talk more about later. But it is your wish list of places to see before you....you know Kick the Bucket There are two type of cruising on this list – River and Ocean. They are different. The only thing similar is unpack once and food, glorious food. River Cruising is slow and easy. There are river cruises just about anywhere in the world now. Can be in one country only or could sale a continent Big item now a days is packing the grand parent, the parent and the kids and everybody travel to the same destination. Usually paid for by the grandparent. With everyone busy schedule and family spread out over long distances, sometimes this is the only way for everyone to get together. Train travel – The way it used to be before the era of air travel. Some of these tours are quite spectacular. See the scenery you miss by driving. Sleeper cars and Pullman beds. An old chestnut – Motor Coach tours. Not the 50 people in a bus designed for 45. Not a school bus tours. Today's Motor Coaches are luxury style with TV and Internet. Comfortable seats. You’ll be asleep 10 minutes into the trip.
- This is a slide of a few sample tours we have put together. Not the only tours we arrange but they are local out of Vancouver as far away as Alberta or Oregon
- Tour companies love group. They sell many berths or seats at one time. As a reward they offer package pricing and customizable itineraries. The group can choose modifications and are not stuck with the tour company’s choice of what to visit. As an example, Normandy Beaches Tours. Most tours visit the American Landing Beaches. A group could change this to spend time at Juno Beach where the first Allied force got off the beaches on D-Day. Or add a side trip to Vimy ridge near Calais. With the RC facilities here is Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island, you have potential groups. We can put together a group from this facility or combine residents from several facilities. The power of the group. As we say – “it’s better to travel with people you know” whether that is a good thing or bad thing.
- Look at this group. 14 days on the road together. And they are still smiling. When they get home, they’ll have lots to reminisce about.
- What we can do is Customize any tour. You don’t have to fit what you want to see into what the tour operator think you need to see. The CHOICE is yours...within reason. And if you have a specific list of places you want to visit and no tour is available, then let’s build it. We have the connections in the industry.
- Example of a previous tour offered at The Gardens
- This one was a cruise featuring 5 days at sea to Hawaii, 6 days sailing around Hawaii, 5 days a sea to Seattle. Full day in Seattle and home to Vancouver This is a nice relaxing vacation. ALOHA This was in 2011.
- Sample of the itinerary for each stop (port)
- Now let’s talk about Bucket List. Who here has a bucket list? How many items have you checked off? Any items you wanted to add but said no way possible.
- Beginners Guide To Bucket Lists Set realistic goals – Is climbing Mt Everest a realistic goal. (Instead maybe visit the base camp) Complete items before adding new items Bucket List Overflow – Do not suffer from thing. Solution can not be to get a bigger bucket What is your #1 item? Question
- Check out the photos See how much more fun it is to book with a live travel agent
- There are pros and cons with each way to book your travel. Unless you love spreadsheets, to do lists, coordinating emails, tracking payments, deadlines, deposits, final payment – use a travel agent. It’s what we do.
- Why You Need Insurance Protection for your investment – why risk it Credit Card coverage – Your card has limited coverage Over 60 years old – Harder to by but still possible Types of coverage are Flight Insurance, Trip Cancellation, Medical Coverage, Lost Luggage
- As we promised here are those 6 easy steps to book Senior Travel
- We have time for questions. What would you really like to ask?