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Bruce Poon Tip has come a long way from naive young backpacker to hardball negotiator. From a startup company faxing out brochures in a Toronto garage, launched on $10,000 in savings and a $5,000 advance from VISA, G.A.P Adventures has become a $120-million-a-year colossus. The company grew quickly by appealing to a new breed of traveler: single tourists, many of them women. Even today, G.A.P eschews the "singles supplements" that price many tours and cruises out of reach for lone travelers. G.A.P maintains its growth pace with five key strategies: 1. expanding product lines, 2. deeper relationships with other travel marketers, 3. acquisitions, 4. innovative marketing, and 5. target marketing. Poon Tip seems pretty sure about how the future looks. He says the company will continue to grow, through both expansion and acquisition. The one certainty is that he expects G.A.P to be a $500-million company in five years.