OurExplorer Tour Guide - New website version goes live

Thanks again for all your great suggestions during 2008 on OurExplorer.
Each tour guide who contributed and gave feedback has helped every new tour guide who will join OurExplorer into the future.

The changes to OurExplorer are focused on 3 main things -

1. Make OurExplorer easier to use
2. Increase the amount of tour guide profiles clients review
3. Increase the amount of tour guide bookings

OurExplorer would love to hear your thoughts on the new 2009 site.
Love it or hate it?

Helping Hearing Impaired travelers - OurExplorer Tour Guides

OurExplorer was delighted this week to help a lady who is hearing impaired to travel through Asia. OurExplorer had our best tour guides ensure the trip was safe, educational and enjoyable.
100% Happiness Guaranteed!

As a tour guide, have you ever helped hearing or visually impaired travellers before?

OurExplorer presenting to tour guides at WFTGA

I am excited to annonce that OurExplorer will be presenting at the World Federation of Tourist Guides annual conference in Bali - mid Jan 2009.
OurExplorer will be delighted to meet thousands of tour guides from all over the world. The aim of OurExplorer is to help these tour guides access a new method of getting business - online.

OurExplorer will focus on how online shopping and purchasing is the way of the future - rising dramatically each year.

Do you have any queries about online sales for your tour guide service?

Cheers
Dave Cunningham
Chief Exploring Officer

Travel writers - Love the experience of tour guides

In an amazing realisation this week, OurExplorer have confirmed that travel writers really value the experience of professional tour guides.
The benefits for the tour guides are huge with a free article, media exposure about their services and if booked via OurExplorer the tour guide gets their services rated independantly also.
For the travel writer, they of course get to see the destination through the eyes of a local. This wisdom and insight gives a truely authentic expereince which makes for great articles.
OurExplorer do love a win:win situation.

Happy Exploring
Dave C
Chief Exploring Officer

OurExplorer - Tour guide portal wins award

It was with great pleasure and delight that I collected the prestigous Web Marketing Associations award in October 2008.
OurExplorer won the award for innovation and "Travel Standard of Excellence".
Now the largest tour guide booking portal in the world - OurExplorer has finally been recognised for its advances in such a short period of time.

What do you think of OurExplorer?

Dave Cunningham
Chief Exploring Officer

Getting coversion rates of tour guide bookings up

I would like today to look for some feedback and suggestions on how OurExplorer can get higher conversion rates for the tour guides.
By this I mean - getting more visitors of www.ourexplorer.com to actually book a tour guide of their choice before they leave the site.

- Does the homepage of www.ourexplorer.com need to change?
- If yes, how can it change to put more focus on tour guide bookings?

Cheers
Dave C

Do tour guide photos help build client trust?

I am always interested when some of the tour guides on OurExplorer do not add their profile photo. I wonder, why not invest an extra minute to complete your profile and then get the benefit from many client bookings later.

Or does a profile photo of a tour guide actually add value and build trust in a potential client?
Would you book a stranger you never saw or a friendly face you trusted more?