Dave Aidekman is the CEO and co-founder of Trip Tribe, a company specializing in coordinating destination retreats for yoga, photography, wellness, hiking, fitness, cycling, mountaineering and much more!  They handle the logistics and let you be the host taking care of payment, providing checklists, marketing tools and a network of interested participants.

In this interview, we discuss:

• How early in advance to start planning a retreat
• Where to start as an interested host or participant
• What Trip Tribe provides to hosts to minimize the headache of planning, booking, accepting payments, marketing and more
• How many participants is ideal
• Contingency planning for weather and hurricanes
• What types of excursions can be included and how its arranged
• How the host makes money
• Marketing tools provided by Trip Tribe
• Most popular trips and destinations by season
• How properties get added to the lists
• Options for individual travelers finding their tribe within their age range and interests
• Training, guidelines and education for hosts

Find out more on Episode 8