Arcata Adventurers Travel Agency

by: David Hudson, Brian Page, Brittany Cook
    Taylor Van Cleave, Jonah Peele
edited by: S. Tuttle
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Arcata Adventurers Travel Agency is a local travel agency, a family
business located in Arcata, California that has been operating since
1985. They specialize in arranging tours of local forests and parks,
including tours on public and private land. They are best known for
their tours of area redwood forests, and they also feature popular
beach tours. The agency's regular employees include agents, full-time
tour guides, and an accountant, and it also contracts out to local
tour guides with specialized expertise. They operate year-round,
although the summer tourist season is their busiest time of year; they
seek to accommodate the interests of a wide variety of customers.

Day-to-day activities of the Arcata Adventurers Travel Agency include
organizing tours, keeping the information for each tour in order, and
storing customer information for future customer tracking. They keep
track of customer interests in addition to other needed customer
information such as tour payment status, name, address, contact
information, etc. The agency assigns a tour guide to each tour and
designs an itinerary for that tour in conjunction with that tour
guide. They also offer opportunities for volunteering to local
students interested in getting experience in recreational management.