	WWE RAW Result
	Home Site Map

Women's Travel Market: Retreats the Growing Trend

Sudbury, ON (PRWEB) May 14, 2007 -- Canada's largest outdoor adventure company for women, Wild Women Expeditions (WWE), notes a shift in the women's market towards personal growth and wilderness retreats.

The most recent figures indicate that the all-chick adventure leader may have spotted the latest trend in the women's market. The company has been tracking sales trends since 1991 and running comparisons of early registrations at the April 30th mark. "Sales of our retreat packages are up 50% from last season; while paddling, cycling and hiking adventures are holding at 2005 and 2006 levels. We did see this coming" reports Beth Mairs the company's founder and director.

Back in 2004, Mairs joined the ranks of businesses turning to Google Adwords to boost their online presence. Through this promotion tool, users select key words that will trigger showing their ads. Google also provides its users stats on which search strings are most popular and generating clicks. In 2004, searches under terms such as 'women's adventures' and 'women's travel' were very popular and generated a lot of new visitors to WWE's site. But by 2005, searchers under phrases like 'women's retreats' were starting to match women's travel and outstrip women's adventures. Now in 2007, for every one search under women's travel there are three people searching under women's retreats according to WWE's Google stats.

Wild Women Expeditions own web stats seems to be telling a similar story: since the launch of their 2007 season online six months ago, hits to their Retreats page are outstripping hits to their Paddling plus Hiking pages combined.

This may be part of a larger trend. According to Ken Johnson, founder of the popular site Retreats Online, the women's market for retreats has always been strong. He estimates that of his online users 75% are female. Retreats Online has a special women's retreats section and in the past 3 years he has noted an increase of 100% in traffic to that section.

While Mairs is unsure why the women's market is shifting to retreats, Johnson believes this may represent a larger trend towards personal development and spiritual growth, especially as more women find themselves stressed out and unfulfilled in the workplace. Getting close to nature is a significant part of this trend.

While the outdoor and tourism industry may have been slow waking up to Estrogen buying power, certainly personal growth entrepreneurs have always understand the feminine strength of their market. Check out any yoga studio. And Wild Women Expeditions, which has been offering retreats along side women's adventures since 1994, ramped up their retreat offering in 2006 by inviting music icon Jane Siberry as a workshop leader. This year political activist Starhawk and the singer-songwriter Ferron will be headlining.

According to Mary Beth Bond "The typical adventure traveler is not a 28 year old male but a 47 year old woman." And this summer, Wild Women Expeditions is betting that the typical adventure traveler will be looking for some yoga stretches after hard day's paddle.

Wild Women Expeditions is a unique vacation company catering exclusively to women by offering affordable wilderness adventures, retreats and getaways across Canada. They are based near Sudbury in Northeastern Ontario, Canada. WWE is entering its 17th season.

www.wildwomenexp.com

###

This press release has been reprinted from PRWEB per the terms and conditions of the copyright notice.



Hazed & Confused #8: Interview With Sara Del Rey Hello one and all and welcome back to another issue of Hazed & Confused Best news ever has come to me in the past few days, CHIKARA's King Of Trios 2009 is released on DVD on Tuesday 14th April from SmartMarkVideo and I for one will be ordering it The Von Erichs - 1 Wrestlers Family. 144 Titles. 5 Tragedies. The Adkisson family, better known as the Von Erichs, are described as the hard-bodied, golden-haired, bare-chested hunks of Texas The Start The Von Erich family starts with Fritz who held many important titles in his career Mud Wrestling Women Competition, Las Vegas Mud Wrestling - Presented by Steel Kittens Video. It's 1981 and Las Vegas was picked for the site of the first ever women's lightweight mud wrestling championships, which has become one of the gems in our vintage professional womenâ??s wrestling collection. They were held in a hotel and the preparation was outstanding. The pit was surrounded by ropes, a two-announcer team described the action, and two referees stood by to guard against foul play. Seven bouts were scheduled with eight fit, beautiful, and athletic young women all aiming for the championship! Wrestling Shoes and Their Importance Wrestling is an enormously entertaining and high energy sport which is one of the oldest sports, as it has been there from 710 BC. It is one of those many funny crazy games men have a lot of interest in, and which to some other person may seem as totally pointless. The major plus point of wrestling when it is compared to other sports is that a person has to invest very little when he wants to wrestle, and the equipment required for it are very reasonably priced. In fact the costliest thing that you can buy if you are going to wrestle is the wrestling shoes. The Wrestler Baron Mikel Scicluna Copyright (c) 2010 Davide Botticelli Baron Mikel Scicluna Bibliography Many wrestlers claim to hail from exotic and even fictitious places, but Scicluna (pronounced sikh-cloo-nah) actually was from Malta He was proud of his homeland and returned to Malta every year with his family Fans Have the Chance to Get Up Close & Personal With Their Favorite Pro Wrestlers and MMA Fighters Wrestling observer Releases its first ever shoot DVD Balistik Blabber: Dr. Death... Aka Steve Williams Greetings and welcome to Balistik Blabber 23 This series of articles is called ?Ex-WWE Talent?, where I dig up long forgotten wrestlers who've been with the World Wrestling Entertainment company and have moved on? or not? Today we take on one of the World Wrestling Entertainment's biggest mistakes? EEEVEEERRR Women's Wrestling- Why Not? Women's Wrestling? That's right. And why not? Contact sports like women's wrestling are not for everyone, but the ladies that do it, do it because the love it. Why do they love it? Well, being that I have been in the sport for over 25yrs, and having made a living from it, I think it is safe to say that I know a thing or two about it. Balistik Blabber: Mike Awesome! This is the 15th ýBalistik Blabberý article and in case you just joined the bandwagon, Iým your host Wrestling game, bringing wonderful and sometimes awful memories of ex-WWE stars back into the spotlight To my regular readers, thanks again for all the support Cyber Wrestling And Other Fun Wrestling Information Cyber wrestling has definitely become more popular over the past few years. If you are not physically able to participate in the sport, then this is definitely the way to go so that you can participate in the action. There are numerous websites that you can search on the Internet to find a group of people who share the same interest as you do. You will be able to join in on the fun and will be able to participate in matches right on the Internet. It will feel so real, that you will feel like you are actually part of the competition. Furthermore, it is an opportunity to meet other people while competing in cyber wrestling. Let's get some more information about these sites that have everything you want to know about wrestling. Hardcore Hall Of Fame April 21 2008 Welcome fans to the fifth installment of the Beefcake Jack Hardcore Hall of Fame For those who are have not read one of these articles, they are designed to showcase the wrestlers whose specialty is the brutal style we know and love, hardcore wrestling Antonio Inoki Bibliography Copyright (c) 2010 Davide Botticelli New Documentary Examines Wrestling History, Homoeroticism, and Homophobia Stronghold: In the Grip of Wrestling, examines the growing number of men who wrestle as adults, and the social stigmas they encounter. It talks frankly about wrestling homoeroticism and homophobia, historically through today, and the many reasons wrestling has become such an underappreciated sport in America. All styles of wrestling are included: amateur wrestling, pro wrestling, and submission grappling. Mixed Wrestling \| Man vs Women Wrestling Mixed Wrestling \| Man vs Women Wrestling WWEShop.com Free Shipping Deal RAW, SmackDown, ECW, Divas and more!

Home Site Map