VoyageTrek Travel is an Internet based consumer information and marketing services company. Our mission it to help people find their ideal vacation. We are passionate about your vacation!
Free Directory Search Service: Consumers can search by activity and / or destination for tour operators and outfitters who offer guided single and multi-day vacations with listings information compiled by our editors and through direct submissions from tour operators, which are then reviewed by our editors. Contextually relevant advertisements are labeled as advertising and kept separate from the free and unbiased tour operator listings. We believe we have the largest directory of specialty vacation companies in the world.
Lead Referral Advertising Programs: We help introduce travelers to the best tour operators for their ideal vacation
- AdventureMatch Program: Many of our customers become overwhelmed by the choices and the time it takes to research each tour operator, outfitter, or lodge, and so we have introduced our AdventureMatch Program to expertly match people who are interested in a specific vacation, such as bicycle touring, fishing lodges, or dude ranches, to the very best companies that match their vacation preferences and profiles for their destination. (Read our Press Release on Expanding the Program).
- AdventureSelect Program (Coming in late 2008): Customers can select from a short list of tour operators and request to receive more information and brochures from specific tour operators.
Travel Providers and Tour Operators Information Submission: Companies that offer guided and specialty travel listed on www.voyagetrek.com and submit their information to our website for free at www.voyagetrek.com/operator/. The AdventureMatch and AdventureSelect lead referral advertising program is an optional program for companies who want a new cost-effective way to acquire new customers via high-quality leads sent right to their email. These are only available for select activities and destinations right now, but we’re expanding all the time.
Here is a quick note from our CEO and Founder:
Welcome! VoyageTrek Travel is born from our passion for both the power of the Internet and for adventurous vacations and outdoor pursuits that lift the spirit, feed the mind, and satisfy the soul. Our goal is to make VoyageTrek.com the best place to find leisure activity and travel information, tour operators, and people who love adventure and travel. We hope you will find our free directory and AdventureMatch services useful and always feel free to contact us with any questions or comments.
Happy Travels!
Cliff Hawk
Founder’s Biography:
Cliff Hawk founded VoyageTrek Travel. Prior to VoyageTrek Travel, Cliff worked in senior product management and business development positions for the Microsoft Corporation. In early 2001 Cliff was hired by Microsoft to lead strategic planning on the new MSN Search Featured Sites program, which quickly grew to become MSN’s largest advertising product and later became the cornerstone for the Microsoft adCenter program. From mid 2002 to the fall of 2006, Cliff created and managed business partnerships with various Interactive and traditional media companies that enabled the MSN and Windows Live business models and powered multiple new and existing web properties such as MSN Video, MSN Real Estate, MSN Lifestyle, and Windows Live Search. He managed media partnerships with companies such as Disney, Viacom, News Corp, Bertelsmann, Hearst, Meredith Corp, Scripps Networks, AmEx Publications, McGraw-Hill, Scholastic, iVillage, Discovery, Expedia, and HomeStore.com.
Prior to Microsoft, Cliff helped drive development and management of new advertising products for aQuantive (then Avenue A, Inc.), a publicly-traded company and pioneering leader in online marketing technologies and services and the largest buyer of Internet advertising.
Prior to aQuantive, Cliff worked in brand management for Dell Computer. Prior to Dell, he worked in business development for the Dunlop Corporation.
While in college, Cliff spent a summer working and playing in Glacier National Park, Montana, and then subsequently spent many years working in operations and as a tour guide for Princess Tours (the land tour division of Princess Cruises), guiding thousands of vacation travelers on land tours through Alaska and the Canadian Rockies. As a self-described Leisure Activist, he loves to take people on vacation, send people on vacations, and talk about vacations!
Cliff holds a BA in Business Administration from the University of Washington, an MBA in Marketing from the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University where he was the annual Philip Morris Merit Scholar, and he completed graduate coursework in business at The Thunderbird Graduate School of Global Management, where he was the Arizona Business Leaders Association Merit Scholar.
Cliff lives in the Wallingford neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. He is an avid world traveler and enjoys many of the outdoor activities on VoyageTrek.com
Richard Bangs: Strategic Advisor.
Richard provides advice and consulting to VoyageTrek Travel. Here is a much abridged biography of Richard:
Richard Bangs has oft been called the father of modern adventure travel and the pioneer in travel that makes a difference, travel with a purpose. He has spent 30 years as an explorer and communicator, and along the way led first descents of 35 rivers around the globe, including the Yangtze in China and the Zambezi in Southern Africa.
Richard has published more than 1000 magazine articles, 16 books, a score of documentaries and several CD-ROMs; and has lectured at the Smithsonian, the National Geographic Society, the Explorers Club and many other notable venues. He writes a semi-regular feature with the NY Times. He was founder and editor-in-chief of Mungo Park, a pioneering Microsoft travel publishing effort. He also founded www.terra-quest.com. He was part of the founding executive team of Expedia (www.expedia.com), and served as its Editor-at-Large. He was creator and publisher of Expedia Travels Magazine (published in partnership with Ziff-Davis), and executive producer of Expedia Radio, and founder and executive director of Expedia Cafes. He also served as president of Outward Bound; Founded Well-Traveled.com for Slate, and was founding editor and executive producer of Great Escapes, another Microsoft Travel initiative (www.greatescapes.msnbc.com). He also ran and founded First and Best for MSN, and founded Sobek Expeditions, which in the early 1990s merged with Mountain Travel to become Mountain Travel Sobek (www.mtsobek.com). He recently co-directed the IMAX Film, Mystery of the Nile, and co-authored the Putnam book of the same name. His recent book, The Lost River: A Memoir of Life, Death and the Transformation of Wild Water, won the National Outdoor Book Award in the literature category. For the past 18 months Richard has served as executive producer of Richard Bangs Adventures on Yahoo (www.adventures.yahoo.com). He is currently producing and hosting the new American Public Television series, Richard Bangs’ Adventures with Purpose, and his next book is Adventures with Purpose (summer, ’07), to coincide with the launch of the first APT special.
