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HOW TO SELL GUADELOUPE It’s not hard to figure out which clients you should urge to visit Guadeloupe. Certainly, people who’ve already visited some of the Caribbean isles more touristed by Americans and who are ready for something new will love it. After all, Guadeloupe is a slice of France in the Western Hemisphere, with French laws and luxury goods and savoir-vivre—plus a genuine, unspoiled Caribbean environment within this safe and secure département de France framework. And these clients who are looking for something different are sure to be surprised and delighted when you tell them that new flights to the butterfly archipelago, which until now was so hard to reach, have made Guadeloupe just a hop and a skip away. To make your job even easier, the Guadeloupe Islands Tourist Board recently put together seven unique packages. Not only are these itineraries tempting and smartly designed— they feature terrific activities, hotels where staffers speak English, flights from the U.S.—but they help you zero in on exactly which kinds of travelers match up with Guadeloupe. FOODIES The opportunity to enjoy French cuisine, French-Creole specialties, and even French-Caribbean curries prepared with real French ingredients and/or local produce has long made Guadeloupe a mecca for food lovers. If you book the tourist board’s Culinary package, with accommodations at Auberge de la Vieille Tour, your clients will enjoy such perks as a tour of an organic farm (and a multi-course meal there) and a meet-up/ munch-up with Cuisinieres, revered local women who maintain Guadeloupe’s culinary traditions. ECOTOURISTS No surprise that Guadeloupe amazes ecotourists, what with so much of its land (and water) unspoiled and protected from development. Moreover, the archipelago offers an astounding variety of environments—mountains and lowlands, rainforests and desert islands, beaches and mangrove swamps, shallow coral reefs and underwater canyons. Two new packages target ecotourists: Eco-Feel for the shorts-and-sandals crowd, with accommodations at Vert Intense-Les Bananes Vertes, and Eco-Chic for clients who want both wilderness and sophisticated colonial style, with a stay at Le Jardin Malanga Hotel. ATHLETES The existence of so many environments is a godsend to outdoorsy types, whether their sport is hiking, snorkeling, surfing, kitesurfing, fishing, or—well, you name it. Among the many neat activities included in the new Multi-Sports itinerary, which includes a stay at Langley Resort Fort Royal, are kayaking and snorkeling in an aquarium-like mangrove environment, and a guided canyoning trip from the summit of La Soufrière. DIVERS Think of divers as a separate category of athletes—travelers with a passion they want to pursue almost every day. What’s nice about the new Deep Blue package is, not only does it give scuba diving aficionados an opportunity to explore Jacques Cousteau’s fabled Pigeon Islands, but it also includes a stay on Terre-de-Haut (at Le Petits Saints), which offers some of the least exploited dive sites in the entire Caribbean. BECOME A GUADELOUPE SPECIALIST A The new flights and theme packages for Guadeloupe are attracting a lot of new visitors from North America to these islands that few American and Canadian visitors could easily access until now. In light of these much-improved arrangements, selling Guadeloupe can be very rewarding. We want to help you expand your knowledge of this unique country so you can sell it easily, profitably, and repeatedly. Visit edu.recommend.com/guadeloupe and take the brand-new Guadeloupe Islands Specialist and Incentive Program. Just read through the course, answer the 20-question exam, and you’ll be on your way to receiving certification as a Guadeloupe specialist. Register today for the new Guadeloupe Islands Specialist Program at edu.recommend.com/guadeloupe 8 edu.recommend.com/guatemala 8-9 alt Selling .indd 8 9/24/13 10:24 AM http://edu.recommend.com/guadeloupe http://edu.recommend.com/guadeloupe http://edu.recommend.com/guatemala

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Editor's Notes
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