Q: What is Adventure Engine?
Adventure Engine (AE) is an online database for adventure travel. It offer’s an easy way to search and book travel for the end user and it is an outlet for tourism operators of all sizes in all locations to display and sell their adventure travel and tourism products.

AE consolidates adventure products in one online market place making it easy to search, compare and buy the ultimate adventure vacation.
AE provides an economical administration system for tourism business operators to manage and sell their inventory, and it allows those operators to sell online without a merchant account!
AE facilitates a commission and payment system to inspire travel agents and other distributors to get on it and resell adventure travel products.

Q: Am I a distributor?
If you have any connection to the tourism industry, and particularly if you sell or would like to sell products that are tourism related, you are a potential distributor. You can add Adventure Engine products to your current product line to value add your services and to make money!

Q: What are the commissions offered and how much could it add up to?
Commissions are set by each individual tourism business operator (supplier) and average 9% Trip prices on Adventure Engine range from $49 to $20,000+. You do the math!

Q: What can it do for me as a distributor of tourism products?
You can value add to your current website without changing its existing look and feel. For a $500 annual subscription fee you can now offer a site where customers can search, compare and buy adventure travel and earn a commission from every sale! Access our existing inventory of trips or we can help you bring your own clients or members to the database. Imagine not having to manually negotiate agent relationships or manually confirming seat availability while your customer waits.

Q: What solutions can you offer for distributors like hotels and resorts?
1. Offer for sale various adventure tours in your area without the hassle of time consuming callbacks with tour operators and double-booking.
2. Create itineraries and packages for your visitors with our easy to use system. Add more than just a car rental, lift ticket or golf pass. Now a customer can book a room and a bike tour. Choose from an array of varied products for customers to add to their trip.
3. Payment and reporting is done automatically. No waiting, no hassles and no billing.
4. Earn a commission and gain a competitive advantage.

Q: What solutions can you offer for distributors like travel agents?
1. A new revenue source. Package tours and activities on top of airfare.
2. Specialize in niche activities (ie – your ‘eco-tourism’ or ‘white water’ specialist).
3. Search by type of activity, rating and by % commission offered by suppliers.
4. Availability is in the search result – close sales faster.
5. Confirmation and payment is automatic.
6. Get listed in our ‘agent’ section and increase exposure for you travel agency.

Q: What solutions can you offer for distributors like chambers of commerce and tourism associations?
1. Add value by selling your members products through your chamber website. Access to the database is through a portal / search bar on your website, with no change to your existing website.
2. Serve your membership better, attract new membership, and create a potential revenue stream.
3. Package your local and regional product. Program your portal to show only your regionally specific member’s tourism products.
4. Receive equal exposure with other, larger tourism centers. Search results are not based on size of marketing budget.
5. Trip planning and packaging is easy with our itinerary builder – Join other regions in this one stop shop for adventure. Adventure Engine will promote all regions in one easy-to-use site.
6. The database is maintained by Adventure Engine staff and will not add to the burden of chamber resources.
7. List events and even sell tickets on the database through AE’s master merchant account.
8. Create an instant tourism infrastructure within your own region.

Q: How does it work?
As a distributor, you place the portal of your choice on your website and choose the result parameters. These parameters constrain the results according to region, activity or other specifications of your choice. If you wish to show only adventures that are educational, you can do that with Adventure Engine.

Q: How does it work for larger distributors?
Do you have several outlets? Keep from double booking, and keep staff communication up to the minute using Adventure Engine. Drastically reduce your administration costs.

Q: How do I get the search bar or portal on my site?
Follow easy step-by-step instructions in the distributor section of the website. Create your own portal, and the Adventure Engine site will e-mail you the code you need. You tell the site how you want the search bar to limit results by any of our search features, and Adventure Engine creates the code you can cut and paste into the body of your website. You can do this yourself, or forward the code to your webmaster (it takes about 1 minute to cut and paste).

Q: What does the portal look like?
The actual portal looks very similar to the simple search on our homepage adventureengine.com. You can create your own portal based on color and search features. Below are examples of buttons you can place on your homepage that link to your portal and your trips.

Q: Why would I subscribe when I just invested so much in my current website?
Does your website book tours of many different adventure travel suppliers for a commission? Adventure Engine can offer this to you with little change to your websites current content. Serve your membership and create a revenue stream for yourself all for only $500/year with NO change to your existing site!

Q: What if I am not computer savvy?
Adventure Engine is easy to navigate and operate. If you are able to send e-mail and search on google, you will easily be able to operate Adventure Engine. We will alleviate the costs and frustration of database and online store maintenance by maintaining the database, your search bar and portal, and all affiliated payment and reporting features.

Q: Will my data be safe?
Adventure Engine has 128 bit– encryption, with results that are dynamic (they get pulled away from the database when shown) so your data isn’t stored near the public domain. The system is backed-up and recorded constantly, and you can back up your data to your personal computer as well as our data vaults. Errors on your computer will not affect the database, its information or its functionality. Our server provides a multi-redundancy backup system to ensure the security and integrity of your inventory.
In addition, customer credit card information is not stored on the Adventure Engine server, but rather in our merchant services’ data vault.

Q: How do I get paid?
You will create an account with Adventure Engine, and your company/organization will be assigned an account number and ID. The search bar or portal you design and download will have your code and ID in it, so every transaction that is completed through your portal will end in a commission automatically allocated to you (by auto bank deposit, email transfer or cheque mailed).

Q: How do I know the quality of the operators?
In our first version, operators are required to submit business license and insurance information and three supplier references to be verified by Adventure Engine staff. In addition our customer rating and feedback system is under development and when released you will be able to read feedback from consumers online. Company information is available through Adventure Engine, with a link to their website and contact information.