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Travel Out There Team at ITB Berlin
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In January 2006, after working 18 months self-employed on the Travel Out There project, Austin formerly and legally established Travel Out There as a registered company. An online incoming tourism agency offering unforgettable experiences for visitors to Latvia. “There are so many amazing experiences, activities and things to do here in Latvia, I was simply wanting to make the inaccessible accessible’.
The company has since expanded and evolved in to one of the leading tourism hospitality and service provider companies in Latvia. In 2007 with the continued success of Travel Out There, Austin decided to expand operations to include the two other Baltic countries: Lithuania and Estonia. We are now working hard working with service providers and partners across Europe to give our valued customers the opportunity to Travel Out There in Belgrade, Kiev, Krakow, Warsaw, Budapest...the list is continually growing :)
The Travel Out There team are constantly developing the global site. Our system allows our valued customers to browse and book experiences throughout Eastern Europe directly with our Local Expert in each destination. “Travel Out There will enable the tour guides and suppliers to concentrate on what they do best, showing visitors to their country a wonderful time and experience, and allow us to help support them with their online presence and booking management process. It will also ensure great value – as the supplier will be selling directly to the customer’.
The website is an example of the peer to peer revolution in web development. It allows the content and activities to be uploaded by the service providers and customers! Customers have the control – with the capability of rating and reviewing the services on offer.
Austin plans to travel extensively in the short distant future to fulfill his childhood ambition ‘to see the World’, meeting providers, experiencing the activities and enjoying the Travel Out There adventure!
Travel Out There is a registered company in Latvia (company registration number LV40003797104). We are members of the Latvian Tourism Association and the European Travel Agents' and Tour Operators' Association.
We have an excellent reptuation and offer our customers unforgettable experiences at superb value...we would recommend you check out some of our recent testimonials as proof of the pudding!
For all the latest news and info from the Travel Out There team be sure to check out our blog. Members of the Travel Out There team will keep you posted on the latest news and gossip from Out There HQ.
We look forward to seeing you out here with Travel Out There - experience it to believe it!! |
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Travel Out There Time Line
| May 2003 | Austin visits Riga for the first time on a reconnaissance mission to find a football team to play his team from the UK during August Bank Holiday. | ||||||
| August 2003 | Despite arranging the games of football, Austin’s footie team failed to secure good flight prices to Riga, hence the tour had to be cancelled. However, Austin visited Riga for 2 weeks anyway! (He had intended to go on a road trip in to Estonia but the pull of Riga was too hard to escape). | ||||||
| September-December 2003 | Austin had been well and truly ‘riga-washed’...work and life was going ok in the UK but he felt he had to go back to investigate further. He felt that the place was almost too good to be true..there had to be a catch! | ||||||
| December 31st 2003 | Austin arrives in Riga. | ||||||
| January 2004 | Whilst in the UK Austin arranged a creative partnership project between a school in the Riga with one in the UK. ‘Talking Pictures’ enabled young students to communicate via internet with photos and comments. | ||||||
| February 2004 | For fun Austin begins to run bar and club excursions for people staying in hostels in Riga. | ||||||
| June 2004 | Austin begins to realise that there could be a business here and begins charging party goers for the tour and begins working with many of the bars and clubs in Riga. | ||||||
| August 2004 |
The bar and club excursions are a huge success...Austin creates a website and becomes officially ‘self-employed’ in Riga. Creative partnership project finishes with an exhibition in Congress Nams Riga |
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| January 2005 | Many of the partygoers need entertaining in the daytime as well as evening. Austin realises that there is so much to do and wants to make the inaccessible accessible. Daytime activities are launched on the website. | ||||||
| March 2005 | Austin begins playing football in Riga. The birth of Riga Out There sport Tours. | ||||||
| January 2006 | The workload is too great...Austin needs people to support the expanding business, he employs Danija and Linda and the company is officially registered in Latvia. Riga United FC is established for players from abroad living in Riga and locals…all ‘united for the game’ | ||||||
| July 2006 | Austin visits Tallinn and Vilnius for the first time. | ||||||
| July 2007 | Vilnius and Tallinn launched. New website created to accommodate new destinations websites are launched for Riga, Tallinn and Vilnius. New brand created. | ||||||
| January 2010 | Belgrade launched | ||||||
| March 2011 | Travel Out There network begins to expand...Budapest, Warsaw, Prague. | ||||||
| September 2011 | Penthouse opens for guests | ||||||
| Today | Continuing to develop Travel Out There in to the leading 'Experience Agency' in Europe |
