What does /out/ think of river rafting? I recently took a trip

>>803382
It's a lot of fun, and the idea that you can do big water safely definitely has mass appeal, but that's why there's already river rafting pretty much everywhere it'd be fun. If you're established, it's a great way to make money. If you aren't, I think it'd be next to impossible to do so. Everywhere that's not unbelievably amazing the rafting company has a monopoly on the river, so breaking the barriers to entry would be difficult, to say the least. Anywhere that doesn't have the localized monopoly has so many companies that one more probably wouldn't be able to grow enough to turn a profit.
TL;DR: sounds fun, probably not so good in practice

>>803409

This is in a third world country, an "exotic" vacation hotspot, lots of tourists and not many rafting companies there at the moment. There are milder routes and a few more white water ones. My partner there is a local working in the area for a while and is quite confident it will work well.

I live by a river which leads to a lake which then leads back around to my house. I get to do that which is pretty much rapids for 2 hours. Its not fun.

>>803438
If they're close enough that you can get there within 30-40 minutes of driving, I'd set up at least one mild one and one with more white water, then. If you're confident you can get established, there's no reason to not do it. Have fun, good luck

I've been on the Ocoee and Nantahala and they're fun as hell.

Basically if you're gonna get into making it a business wherever you are, I'd model it off of what the other rafting guides/places do. They buy a plot of land and throw cabins on it or one strip of multiple rooms, and have a central building where people can eat/buy snacks/hang out etc. They also provide the bus/van service to take their groups to the launch area.

I think it's REALLY popular, whenever I went we always had to wait on like 10-20 other groups at a time and groups usually have like 10-15 people.