How to Save Money On Adventure Travel Through Detour, The Adventure Travel Marketplace

(EMAILWIRE.COM, April 27, 2011 ) HELENA, Mont.,Â– Most travelers booking an international trip with a US tour operator are paying too much! The biggest secret of the travel industry is that the majority of international tour companies donÂ’t actually operate their own overseas trips, and travelers could instead book the same trip directly with the actual operator of the trip for a lot less money. Detour, The Adventure Travel Marketplace, is an online adventure travel marketplace that helps travelers cut out the middleman to book trips in South and Central America with the actual tour operators, saving saving travelers money by paying local prices without the heavy mark-ups of international tour operators.

While most US and international tour operators will tell you about the high quality of their trips, they wonÂ’t tell you that they donÂ’t actually operate these trips themselves, or that it is possible to book the same or similar trips directly with the local operator of the trip for a great deal less money. Most international adventure tour operators hire local tour operators to operate their overseas trips, as it is very difficult to have multiple operations in different destinations, and in many cases it is illegal as the local laws require locally licensed companies and guides to operate the trips. The foreign tour operators hire these local operators to run their trips, then mark the trips up dramatically before selling to their customers to pay for their office overhead and other expenses.

Detour, www.detourdestinations.com, on the other hand, doesnÂ’t pretend to be the tour operator -- in fact Detour doesnÂ’t operate any trips itself. Instead, Detour uses the vast experience in international tour operations of its staff to handpick high quality, professional, socially and environmentally responsible local tour operators and trips to sell on its website. Many of these tour operators are the same ones who actually operate the tours of the high dollar US tour operators. Detour doesnÂ’t mark up the prices set by the local operators themselves, ensuring that travelers pay the same price as if they contacted the local company directly.

In addition to saving customers money, often 50% or more, for these high quality trips, Detour doesnÂ’t just offer only one company per destination; instead they sell multiple trips in each destination by competing companies, and Detour helps travelers compare the trips and make a decision about which trip and tour operator would be the best fit for them. Detour has no stake in any particular trip or local company, so they give travelers truly unbiased, truthful travel advice, making www.detourdestinations.com a one-stop comparison shopping site for adventure tours.

For more information about Detour and the online marketplace, visit www.detourdestinations.com

Detour, The Adventure Travel Marketplace
Stephanie Parnell
832-755-7661
stephanie@adventuremedianews.com