The 5 rules to plan your professional outdoor vacation

Travel & LeisureOutdoors

  • Author Enrico Forte
  • Published January 28, 2008
  • Word count 471

If the number of travel websites gets you frustrated to find the right info to organize your next holidays, then follow to easy guide to plan your adventure travel.

Today planning a vacation is more easy. You can find all info you need and then book your holiday.

But how can we navigate and choose the right information around the "jungle" of websites available?

Here a step by step process to organize your vacation and identify the key elements to consider.

There are exactly 5 easy steps to do reach your goal:

  1. Choose what type of activity to practice

  2. Choose the right destination

  3. Search for info about practicing the activities in that destination

  4. Plan you trip

  5. Compare the different vacation packages offers

  6. Let's start with defining what type of activity to practice.

If you don't know what to do, here a list of possible ideas:

Outdoor recreational activities like: Backpacking; Camping; Hiking; Trekking or riding a bicycle.

Experiences in the nature like Bird watching; Diving-scuba; Ecotourism, also known as ecological tourism.

Winter sports like Skiing or Snowshoeing.

Before choose the activity verify the availability, your physical preparation, the risks and the period when practice it.

  1. Once you choose the activity, it's time to choose the destination where practice it.
  • You can follow the ideas of your friends, family or social network.

  • You can choose a random place in the world map

  • Get advices from a travel agent

  • Find top 10 destinations in niche websites or blogs

  • At least search on Google to find ideas or suggestions

  1. Now you know what to do and where to do it...let's go find detailed info to build your trip plan.

This is the part of the game where find real time info about: Communications; Transfers; Documents; Health and Safety; Weather

The best sources of information are:

  • Search engines (Type the name of the destination + travel guide)

  • Magazines, guide books

  • Travel blogs

  • Review sites like Tripadvisor

  • Video trips from Youtube

  • Pictures from Flickr

  • Forum and message boards to read the experiences of other people that have visited your next destination.

  1. Another little step and the game is done!

Now you need to coordinate the facilities and services to arrive in your destinations.

So search for flights, buy the right insurance and pack the right gear.

Be sure to pack at least these:

  • Bathing suit

  • Batteries

  • Boots

  • Bug repellent

  • Camera

  • Rain poncho

  • Shorts

  • Socks

  • Sun glasses

  • Torch

  1. If you travel in remote destinations (where exactly the adventure is), it's better to contact a local tour operator.

To choose the best, just look at these aspects:

  • Read their trip dossier

  • Verify their environment standards

  • Evaluate their customer service

  • Read their safety policy

  • Search for negative reviews on the net

Once you have finished your trip planning...put batteries in your camera, train your legs and enjoy your next vacation!

Enrico Forte is an Adventure travel expert agent. He works for Mandala Trek, an Italian company that provides free tips and resources for adventure travels. You can follow what's hot in the industry by reading the Mandala trek blog.

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