AWARD WINNING SEAL & DOLPHIN WATCHING CHARTER TOURISM BUSINESS FOR SALE VIC  

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Description: Award Winning Seal & Dolphin Watching Charter Tourism Business For Sale VIC
This Mornington Peninsula Eco Boat Tour business is an ideal lifestyle business to provide remarkable seal and dolphin watching tourism experiences for guests.

Marine tour business entrepreneurs looking to expand their reach will easily leverage this well-established operation to quickly gain a stronger foot-hold in a new market for greater brand presence.

The business presents the opportunity for an owner/manager or dynamic partnership duo to enjoy the beautiful Sorrento and Portsea marine environment as their office, driving a boat under the sunshine to provide breathtaking wildlife encounters and share for many what is a life-changing experience during a guided tour.

A multi award-winning business - Gold, Silver and Bronze Victorian Tourism Awards - plus years on year Excellence awards on TripAdvisor, with a faithful following it has also featured on specialised tourism TV shows such as Postcards and My Road to Adventure with Brendan Fevola, amongst other print and on-line media.

This also supplemented by star ratings of 4.9 on Google, and 4.9 on Facebook, and being rated as the Number #1 Thing to Do in the region on TripAdvisor.

Providing a range of established tour products, including seal and dolphin watching cruises and fun reef snorkelling tours, the charter business also delivers private group tours for corporate, schools, family and leisure groups.

Operating for 10 years, the established systems and management processes make it easy for a new owner operator or appointed manager to step in and hit the ground running right away.

Based in one of Victoria's premiere tourist destinations, Sorrento, the tours explore the incredible Mornington Peninsula coast of the southern end of Port Phillip Bay.

Guests are delighted by taking in the beautiful cliff-top holiday homes, cruising by the Ticonderoga Dolphin Sanctuary and pristine beaches of the Point Nepean National Park.

Picking up pace, the adventure continues to the iconic Popes Eye Marine Park and breeding ground for the spectacular Australian Gannet seabirds.

Crossing the azure and emerald waters of the Port Phillip Heads Marine National Park, guests adore the sight of Australian Fur Seals hauled-out resting and swimming freely to showcase their in-water antics and exhilarating diving skills.

Along the way the appearance of the Bay's pod of Bottlenose Dolphins, known locally as Burrunan Dolphins, delight and mesmerise guests as they cruise along porpoising on the surface, hunting for food and socialising.

Each and every tour encounters magnificent seabirds, seals and often stingrays can even be seen below the surface.

Added to the spectacle, the popular snorkelling tours share the incredible beauty under the surface, with Weedy Seadragons, wide variety of Wrasse, Leatherjackets and Scalyfin fish, plus sand Crabs, Cuttlefish and vibrant strands of kelp that sway like ribbons.

Supporting the on-water and daily boat aspects, the business is exceptionally well operated with a high quality website, automated booking system that provides guests with 24/7 access and live availability for online bookings, plus established marketing channel and distribution partner relationships for sales referrals and tourism trade bookings.

Extending this support is a range of marketing collateral including brochures and flyers and social media network properties and review site listings.


Equipped with everything you need to turn the keys tomorrow and start your new eco boat tour business lifestyle and begin with confidence. Including array of snorkelling gear including wetsuits, mask, snorkel and fins.

If your dream is to be master of your own life and to share the beauty and adventure of the marine world with seals, dolphins, and incredible seabirds on a fun boat ride, then step aboard now for this once in a lifetime opportunity.

Key Features:

- Net Profit Average above 25%
- TripAdvisor #1 Thing to Do (Sorrento)
- 4.9 Star Rating on Google
- Gold Tourism Award Winner
- Established 2014
- Year on Year passenger growth
- Price includes assets, stock, goodwill
- Fantastic growth opportunities
- Walk in and turn sales from Day 1
- Seasonality of business provides a fantastic work/life balance

Enjoy the flexibility to bring on board your own preferred commercial charter vessel or adopt the existing RIB tour vessel (available separately**).

**Well-maintained 8.5m 2C Survey tour vessel is available for sale. See the listing for Gemini Waverider 850 2C Survey 12 + 2 Crew via the link: https://boatsonline. Com. Au/boats-for-sale/used/power-boats/gem ini-waverider-850-2c-survey-12-2-crew/ **


Enquire now for a detailed business profile. All enquiries treated in the strictest of confidence. Vendor invites all interested buyers to submit offers.

Region
Victoria
Location
Mornington Peninsula Region
Remarks
Well-maintained 8.5m 2C Survey tour vessel is available for sale separately. See the additional listing for 2007 Gemini Waverider 850 2C Survey 12 + 2 Crew listed online.


ABOUT THE SELLER

Marlon Quinn
Blairgowrie
VIC 3942 Australia


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