The Oregon Technical Tour Directory is a key tool in packaged travel and in the Asia market. Travel Oregon is now in the process of preparing the 2009-2010 online edition. Your assistance is needed in order to market your product in this FREE directory.
In the past, the technical tour directory was provided in a printed document with limited offerings. The distribution request has been expanded to larger categories in order to provide a more comprehensive document.
By having an online directory, the document can be updated on a more regular basis. Naturally, no one knows your product or area as well as you do, and we want to be sure that your technical tour and similar opportunities in your area are included in the new edition.
Please contact Chris Chester at 503.378.8865 or chris@traveloregon.com to receive the form to fill out your information.
The deadline for submission is Friday, August 28, 2009, but because this is an online directory entries will be accepted beyond the deadline.
Here is a guide to determine whether or not your organization qualifies:
What is a technical tour?
A technical tour is an organized visit to a business, service, or agency by people (usually in groups) who are interested in observing HOW a process or product is created or how a service is provided. Tours that educate a person e.g., on how musical instruments are made, how potato chips are made, how a call center works, how a recycling program is successfully carried out. The behind the scenes details comprise technical tours. For example, in a winery tour, a technical tour would take the visitor behind the scenes to see the actual process of creating the wine, not the wine tasting.
A technical tour is not:
A social, recreational, or attraction-type experience. For example, a "rafting tour" or "bird watching tour" is not a technical tour as it has no product or process is involved. However, learning about how a river guide prepares for a rafting trip could be a technical tour. A tour through a zoo would not be a technical tour but meeting with zoo staff and seeing what they do behind the scenes would be a technical tour. Going on a tour of wind turbine locations would not be a technical tour but learning how they are installed and how they operate would be a technical tour.