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Looking for exciting adventures that will take you to exotic locations all over the world? Are you wishing that you could just leave it all behind and take a vacation without having to worry about where you're going to go, who you are going to take and even how much it is going to cost? Adventure Bargains is the place for you. Here you will find the greatest adventure vacations found on the internet at the absolute best prices. Nothing is compromised. You receive all the bells and whistles of a normal adventure vacation, but at a fraction of the price.
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Even the best vacation providers are not 100% occupied on every trip on a year-round basis. That's why Adventure Bargains is able to create a winning solution for both active travelers and vacation providers. Adventure Bargains acts as the contact point for vacation providers to post discounted trips and specials and for adventure & active travel enthusiasts to locate unique travel packages to suit every budget.
- Adventure Bargains is a clearinghouse for vacation providers to post their shoulder season discounts, group rate specials, and unfilled tour space.
- All listed vacation packages are at set discount prices.
- Active travelers contact vacation providers directly. Adventure Bargains provides a secure messaging system so that interested parties can contact advertisers directly.
- Adventure Bargains is not involved in the actual transaction between vacation providers and active travelers. Once in contact with one another, it's up to the vacation provider and traveler to negotiate payment arrangements, terms of sale, etc.
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AdventureBargains.com is owned and operated by Gordon's Guide - Adventure & Active Travel.
Since 1997, Gordon’s Guide has been creating marketplaces for adventure travel businesses around the globe - bringing together adventure and active vacation providers and resorts with active travelers through travel books and their award winning adventure and active travel web sites.
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In 1994, Timothy Gordon set out to catalog the most exciting tour operators in the world by compiling all the information people need to take an action-packed adventure or active vacation into a 512-page book – Gordon’s Guide to Adventure Vacations.
As the sales of the Gordon’s Guide books took off at leading bookstores (including Barnes & Noble, Borders, B. Dalton and more), the Gordon’s Guide name became known as an authority on adventure travel for travel consumers and trade professionals alike. Book reviewers from coast to coast donned the book “the bible of adventure vacations.” It was then that Timothy and his team were ready to take their concept to the Internet – where they now offer dynamic services for consumers of adventure travel and the tour operators that service them.
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In 2003, Gordon's Guide Travel Publications - the print division of Gordon's Guide - Adventure & Active Travel
began work on a new series of Magazine Style travel directories of adventure & active vacations.
Released in January of 2004 was the premier edition of "Dude Ranch Vacations & Horseback Adventures" - a 128 page travel directory
containing over 300 exhilarating color photographs, and featuring 80 premier companies offering the finest western and horseback related vacations
such as Dude & Guest Ranch Resorts, Cattle Drives & Working Ranches, Wagon Train Adventures, and Wilderness Pack Trip & Trail Ride Outfitters.
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Since its launch, GordonsGuide.com has put a solid stake in the ground as a premier adventure travel web site and has been awarded “Best of the Web” in the Adventure Travel category by Forbes Magazine in 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, and again in 2007. The core of the site is focused on adventure and active travel - it's a supermall of adventure and active vacations with over 70 (and growing) travel categories featuring over 1000 adventure and active travel companies that are presented to consumers through membership listings called "Storefronts."
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The company is lead by Timothy Gordon, a veteran of the adventure and active travel industry. Before becoming a travel publisher, Gordon spent over 22 years in recreational/hospitality management with a focus on the adventure travel sector. Over the course of his 22 years in the business he worked as a river operations manager for eight seasons, a packer and outfitter for Yosemite National Park, a snowmobile guide, a cross-country ski guide and he worked for six years in the Guest Ranch industry as a wrangler, guest services manager and general ranch manager. He is also a level 5 certified ski instructor with the Professional Ski Instructors Association and is certified in scuba diving and advanced cliff-side and mountain rescue by the California Fire Marshal. His diverse experiences working within the adventure travel industry allow him to bring a wealth of knowledge to his publishing groups that few others have to offer. He has walked the walk of many of his vacation provider clients and brings that insight to Gordon’s Guide. The entire Gordon’s Guide organization, from the president to customer care, has a personal interest in the activities promoted by Gordon’s Guide. The director of technology is a world traveler and an expert fly-fisherman who speaks three languages and holds a masters degree in computer science. Many members of the sales staff are skiing, rafting or hiking mountains on their days off. The operations manager is a marathon runner and donates her time to animal preservation. The director of design is an avid skier and outdoor and nature photographer and holds a masters degree in art and design. In addition, Gordon’s Guide employs team members from Malaysia, Ukraine, Germany, Mexico and Portugal.
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The goal at Gordon’s Guide is to make it quick and easy for active travelers and trade professionals worldwide to research, plan and experience adventure and active vacations by providing high quality, informative information through multiple and integrated media. Gordon’s Guide is a leader dedicated to promoting adventure and active travel, and the companies providing these services.
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To lead the way in promoting Adventure & Active Travel and the companies offering these services,
through best-in-class, first-to-market, integrated media delivered with world-class presentation and
service to amplify consumer interest in this exciting sector of travel globally;
vividly increasing the business volume of our vacation provider clients annually.
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