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Business Name |
Babel Travel |
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Tagline |
Speaking the Language of the Adventure Traveller |
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Website |
www.babeltravel.com |
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Business Type |
Adventure Travel Operator |
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Industry/Niche |
Adventure Travel and Sustainable Tourism |
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Year Founded |
2008 |
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Search Words |
Travel, adventure travel, grassroots travel, authentic travel, real life travel adventures, off the beaten track |
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Founder |
Kevin Pollard (35, Australian) |
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Head Office |
Zug, Switzerland |
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Customer Markets |
Primary; France, Switzerland, Belgium, Spain, Italy, German, Austria and Luxembourg. Secondary; English speaking market. |
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Language Support |
English, French, Italian and Spanish followed by German. |
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Unique Proposition |
“First-of-a-kind” – Babel Travel will be creating a new market segment that is simply not being serviced. |
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Brief/Pitch |
Babel Travel offers authentic, adventure style travel combined with real life grassroots adventures. We strongly believe that sustainable travel should be beneficial to local communities and feel that giving something back is essential. |
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Travel Destinations |
Egypt, Jordan, Iran, Morocco and Turkey as our first destinations (November 2008) along with Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Singapore and Borneo (December 2008) Many more regions will follow after this. |
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Customer Sources |
Travel Agents, company website, special interest groups, workplaces. |
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Product Description |
- 6 to 29 day ‘off-the-beaten track’ authentic adventure trips
- Get a true taste of a country through real life adventures
- Visit all major sights as well as travel on local transport, stay in peoples homes, visit and support local charities, visit typical villages to get a greater understanding of their way of life. Interacting with local people is major part of our trips.
- Eat local food and drink, participate in local activities, live like a local!
- Break down barriers between Babel Travellers. We embrace difference cultures with the people of the world and find joy in the realisation that, what we have in common far outweighs our differences.
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Our Trip Styles |
- Babel Adventurer – low price, minimum hassle, but maximum experience
- Babel Traveller – our best style, a true Babel Travel adventure
- Babel Comfort - real life adventures with a softer landing
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Company Address |
Baarerstrasse 43, CH-6304, Zug, Switzerland |
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Postal Address |
PickPost 10091976, Postfach, CH-4007, Basel, Switzerland |
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Company Status |
Incorporated in the Kanton of Zug, Switzerland as a limited liability company (Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung/GmbH) |
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Ownership |
Privately owned by founding director and small group of private investors |
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Key Personnel |
- Kevin Pollard, CEO/Founder (10+ yrs of personal and commercial travel experience to over 100 countries, 4+ yrs trip overall trip management and leading experience for Australia’s leading adventure travel company in Asia, Africa, Europe and Middle East)
- Fanny Asselin, Business Development Manager of France, Switzerland and Belgium.
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